International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt Funeral services are related to the vital interests of human beings and are supposed to meet people's social psychological and spiritual needs More and more people from the funeral service industry have realized the importance of bringing helping professionals into the funeral service industry to fill in service gaps Based on the Strategies and Skills Learning and Development system a practice framework for funeral social work...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt This study focuses on international development aid policies implemented by municipalities By proposing a theoretical framework and addressing the Spanish context it first explores the added value and the challenges involved with this kind of decentralised aid Second it discusses the implications in terms of the competencies required by social workers in order to leverage the potential of these aid policies The research draws on the...

International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt This study aims to relate the sociodemographic and work-related variables that characterize social work professionals with the presence or absence of burnout A single-group ex post facto prospective descriptive design questionnaire was created incorporating sociodemographic data and the Maslach Burnout Inventory The study involved members of professional social workers' associations in Spain The results indicated a burnout prevalence of among the participants and a strong tendency...

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International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt This article is intended to explore the link between the study of defamilisation and that of the adult worker model To meet this purpose a defamilisation framework for studying issues concerning the adult worker model and defamilisation is developed To show the empirical significance of these issues evidence is drawn from a childcare gap typology covering eight European countries Conducting these analytical tasks provides insights into...

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International Social Work Ahead of Print lt br gt This study explores if and how migrating social workers' gender country of origin and time living in the United Kingdom relate to their job and life satisfaction and to building a new social network post-migration Online questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were carried out with participants from Australia Canada India Romania South Africa the United States and Zimbabwe We found a statistically significant connection between the length...

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International Social Work Volume Issue Page - May lt br gt Lesotho recently experienced a paradigm shift from social welfare to social development The study was aimed at assessing achievements and challenges that resulted from the transition A sequential mixed-methods approach was used In the quantitative strand a sample of social workers and beneficiaries was randomly selected out of which a sample of four social workers' focus groups were purposively formed Data were collected through...