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Fears about climate change and global warming seem to have led to a rise in eco-anxiety, which is defined as “a chronic fear of environmental doom."
This article explores the conceptualization of cultural responsivity in Australian child protection through the critical Whiteness theory lens. Critical discourse analysis was deployed to examine the cultural responsivity concept in two statutory child protection documents from New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Interrogating the underlying assumptions present in the texts, the study demonstrated a narrow categorization of who is deemed ‘culturally diverse’ and a problematic conceptualization of cultural responsivity. We argue that these texts maintain Whiteness as the unexamined cultural n...
Healy & Darlington in “Service user participation in diverse child protection contexts: principles for practice” on Child & Family Social Work (2009) discuss the importance of service user participation in child protection contexts. They conducted...
Abstract In Israel, approximately 100,000 Israeli-Arab women are the victims of abuse and violence each year, constituting 50% of the national total, even though the Israeli-Arab community forms only 21% of Israel's population. Only 25% of the victims of abuse and violence turn to the authorities for help. This article examines the case of Dalal Daoud, an Israeli-Arab woman
Faculty member advocates for sleep health training for social workers to better serve clients