Electronic information systems : in search of responsive social work
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- Jochen Devlieghere (UGent) and Rudi Roose (UGent)
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- Summary: The informational context in which social work has been operating over the past decade has gained much more significance. In this context, Electronic Information Systems are often implemented with the aim of being responsive to the needs of children and families. However, research has critically identified some major concerns with using Electronic Information Systems in ways that tend to reduce social work to a technical practice. As a result, practitioners and managers are using their discretion to shape and bend regulations precisely in order to achieve responsive social work practice. In this paper, our aim is to capture the meaning of these strategies for the development of responsive social work. To do so, we interviewed social practitioners working with Electronic Information Systems on a daily basis. Findings: Our results show how practitioners develop a diversity of strategies to recreate the relational aspect of social work, thereby challenging the hypothesis that this was curtailed by the use of Electronic Information Systems. Applications: By fleshing out the meaning of the strategies practitioners use in their daily practice, we aim to contribute to the contemporary debate about the use of these strategies in social work practice. At the same time, it is also important to understand the meaning of these strategies in relation to the development of responsive social work as this development cannot be reduced to a mere relational practice where principles of justice, equality and solidarity are not equally considered.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8539969
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- Devlieghere, Jochen, and Rudi Roose. “Electronic Information Systems : In Search of Responsive Social Work.” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK, vol. 18, no. 6, 2018, pp. 650–65, doi:10.1177/1468017318757296.
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- Devlieghere, J., & Roose, R. (2018). Electronic information systems : in search of responsive social work. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK, 18(6), 650–665. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017318757296
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- Devlieghere, Jochen, and Rudi Roose. 2018. “Electronic Information Systems : In Search of Responsive Social Work.” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK 18 (6): 650–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017318757296.
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- Devlieghere, Jochen, and Rudi Roose. 2018. “Electronic Information Systems : In Search of Responsive Social Work.” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK 18 (6): 650–665. doi:10.1177/1468017318757296.
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- 1.Devlieghere J, Roose R. Electronic information systems : in search of responsive social work. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK. 2018;18(6):650–65.
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- [1]J. Devlieghere and R. Roose, “Electronic information systems : in search of responsive social work,” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 650–665, 2018.
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abstract = {{Summary: The informational context in which social work has been operating over the past decade has gained much more significance. In this context, Electronic Information Systems are often implemented with the aim of being responsive to the needs of children and families. However, research has critically identified some major concerns with using Electronic Information Systems in ways that tend to reduce social work to a technical practice. As a result, practitioners and managers are using their discretion to shape and bend regulations precisely in order to achieve responsive social work practice. In this paper, our aim is to capture the meaning of these strategies for the development of responsive social work. To do so, we interviewed social practitioners working with Electronic Information Systems on a daily basis.
Findings: Our results show how practitioners develop a diversity of strategies to recreate the relational aspect of social work, thereby challenging the hypothesis that this was curtailed by the use of Electronic Information Systems.
Applications: By fleshing out the meaning of the strategies practitioners use in their daily practice, we aim to contribute to the contemporary debate about the use of these strategies in social work practice. At the same time, it is also important to understand the meaning of these strategies in relation to the development of responsive social work as this development cannot be reduced to a mere relational practice where principles of justice, equality and solidarity are not equally considered.}},
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