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Caste Exclusion and Health Discrimination in South Asia: A Systematic Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)The caste system is social stratification system that has been used over the last 3 millennia. This review aims to investigate caste-based inequity in health care utilization in South Asia, particularly focusing those at ... -
Certification for Quality in Hospitals. Exploring adoption, approaches and processes of ISO 9001 quality management system certification
(PhD thesis UiS;549, Doctoral thesis, 2020-10)Introduction: ISO 9001 quality management system certification programs are used internationally to ensure, regulate and drive quality improvement in healthcare. Certifications are often described interchangeably with ... -
Challenges in making school social work a reality in Brazilian schools
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)At the end of 2019, the presence of social workers became mandatory in Brazilian state-funded elementary schools. This brief note explores the challenges schools may have in translating the new legislation from paper to ... -
Challenging the colorblind curriculum: addressing race, ethnicity, and diversity in Social Work education in Portugal
(Master thesis, 2023-07)Social Work education must prepare students for culturally relevant practice, which includes teaching about race and ethnic diversity. To address racism and discrimination effectively in social work practice, social workers ... -
Child protection practitioners' perceptions of working with children whose rights were violated due to their participation in the protests in Thailand in the year 2020
(Master thesis, 2021)This micro-ethnographic study aimed to explore the current understandings and perceptions of child protection practitioners working with children who were exposed to various forms of violence and restrictions due to their ... -
Child welfare practice during the Coronavirus pandemic in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Title: Child welfare practice under the Coronavirus pandemic in Norway Student: Eleni Spantidaki Supervisor: Ida Bruheim Jensen Keywords: Norway, Child welfare services, COVID-19 crisis, worker’s experiences This master ... -
The child, the parents, the family and the state - Chile and Norway compared
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)There is a lack of research comparing Latin American and European countries alongside how family policy relates to social work practices. This study fills in the research gap, and compares Chilean and Norwegian social ... -
Children and childhood in Chile: Social worker perspectives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This study explores understandings of children and childhood among 21 social workers from five child protection services in Chile. To help grasp multiple ideas about children and childhood, we use Q methodology and the ... -
CHILDREN AS CARERS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG CARERS IN ABURI, GHANA
(Master thesis, 2021)Key words: Young carers, caring roles, care receivers, benefits, Ghana In Ghana, the family plays a major role in providing support for the elderly and other vulnerable members such as persons with disabilities and ... -
Children's experiences with Child Protection Services: A qualitative synthesis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Background Research shows that young adults, previously in contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) often have lower overall wellbeing when compared to their peers in the general population. To redress this balance ... -
Children’s early reading through the sense of smell: a typology of olfactory engagement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We investigated adult–child shared book reading of olfactory books that stimulate the sense of smell through scratch-and-sniff surfaces. We observed ten adult–child dyads reading olfactory books at home and documented the ... -
Chinese Immigrant Parents’ Attitudes towards Their Children’s Heritage Language Learning and Ethnic Identity Maintenance
(Master thesis, 2022)Chinese immigrants in Norway are an increasing minority group with little research found talking about them. The Chinese language school is a special organization form that connects Chinese immigrants together and provides ... -
Chinese immigrants’ parental experiences in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06)Existing empirical studies of parents in China found that this population presents features of authoritarian parenting style: greater parental demands and control together with lower parental responsiveness. However, when ... -
A COLAB model of workplace transformation in the criminal justice context
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter presents the COLAB model for promoting organisational learning and innovation with potential application in criminal justice-related organisations. We describe this model as a toolkit that built on the Change ... -
The complexities in social work practice
(Journal article, 2021)An understanding of the social work profession starts with an intense appreciation of the person that the social worker serves, the context where this is done and the processes involved in offering services, as well as who ... -
Construction of ‘a good parent/good parenting’ by social workers In different child welfare systems: An integrative review
(Master thesis, 2021)The current research aimed to explore how social workers are constructing who are good parents and which factors were associated with good parenting in the different child welfare systems. Being a good enough parent is one ... -
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Nigeria
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)This article chronicles the present situation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Nigeria. A systematic search was conducted on three bibliographic ... -
The COVID-19 pandemic impact on wellbeing and mental health in people with psychotic and bipolar disorders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic affects people globally, but it may affect people with psychotic and bipolar disorders disproportionally. Our aims were to investigate the pandemic impact on perceived wellbeing and ... -
Creating spaces for emancipatory praxis with social work students in a diverse classroom context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)Against neoliberal and new managerial pushes in higher education, educators have a responsibility to engage students in transformational learning and prepare them for the complex world of work. This article describes the ... -
Critical norms and values to provide welfare services at civil society organizations in the context of the Salvation Army
(Master thesis, 2021)Abstract Title: Critical norms and values to provide welfare services at civil society organizations in the context of the Salvation Army in Norway Author: Sudarat Thongphab Word count: 18,327 This master's thesis ...