Marie Connolly

Qualitative Analysis A Teaching Tool for Social Work Research

Practitioner and beginning researchers in social work often struggle with the process of qualitative data analysis. This article discusses the use of a teaching tool for qualitative analysis that is relatively simple to apply within the classroom setting. Based on the grounded theory method of qualitative analysis (Glaser and Strauss, 1967; Strauss and Corbin, 1990), the purpose of the tool is threefold: (1) to facilitate a beginning understanding of the processes of qualitative analysis for students; (2) to provide an experiential opportunity for students to practice using qualitative data - thereby encouraging ‘learning-by-doing’ strategy; and (3) to simplify the process of analysis as a precursor to the student’s more in-depth study and understanding.

Understanding Child and Family Welfare

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A human rights-based practice framework for sexual offenders

Abstract Human rights create a protective zone around people and allow them the opportunity to further their own valued personal projects without interference from others. In our view, the emphasis on community rights and protection may, paradoxically, reduce the effectiveness of sex offender rehabilitation by ignoring or failing to ensure that offenders’ core human interests are met. In this paper we consider how rights-based values and ideas can be integrated into therapeutic work with sex offenders in a way that safeguards the interests of offenders and the community. To this end we develop a rights-based normative framework (the Offender Practice Framework: OPF) that is orientated around the three strands of justice and accountability, offender needs and risk, and the utilization of empirically supported interventions and strength-based approaches. We examine the utility of this framework for the different phases of sex offender practice.

Family group conferences in child welfare: the fit with restorative justice

In recent decades, restorative practices have become an important aspect of service delivery in both youth justice and in the care and protection of children. Restorative justice, as an overarching term, has also been used to describe restorative practices, particularly with respect to the use of family group conferencing, across these two practice domains. There are, however, significant differences in these two areas of practice that create theoretical and philosophical tensions when attempting to incorporate them under a restorative justice banner. This article explores these tensions and concludes that while care and protection practice has restorative elements, significant differences set it apart from restorative justice. In arguing for greater clarity between the two at a theoretical and philosophical level, the paper encourages us to explore important opportunities to enrich each practice domain with the values and principles of both.

Private and public voices: Does family group conferencing privilege the voice of children and families in child welfare?

This article examines the use of family group conferencing in child protection and considers its ability to privilege the voice of children and families who reach the attention of statutory child protection services. The family group conference (FGC) is a process of family decision-making in child protection, originally developed in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now practised in many countries including the UK. Examining the literature and research relating to the FGC it considers whether the approach provides a genuine context of participation and partnership, or whether it has become an instrumental professionally led practice as families are charged with greater responsibilities for children at risk.

Social workers' attributions for sexual offending: Implications for practice and training

Abstract In this study, the reasons why qualified social workers and social work students think men sexually offend against children are examined. Participants were asked to give reasons for these behaviours and to rate them using Bensons Attributional Scale across four dimensions; stability, internality, controllability and globality. The results suggested that the students saw the reasons for sexual abuse as significantly less controllable than did the social workers. Similarly, the students reported the reasons to be less internal than did the social workers in the sample. There were no significant differences between the students and social workers with respect to the stability and globality dimensions. There were no significant gender differences with respect to the causality dimensions, however, there was a significant interaction between gender and experience status, student or qualified, for the locus dimension. Experienced male participants saw sexual abuse as being less internal than non-experi...

The safety of young children in care: a New Zealand study

When children are looked after in public care it is critical that they remain free from abuse. Understanding the safety of such children is important both to the child’s well-being and to the continued improvement of the care system. This article explores the research relating to the safety of young children in care and reports on a five-year follow-up study of 228 New Zealand children who entered care when under two years of age in 2005. Based on re-notification data, the study found that the majority of children were identified as being safe in care. As the research was undertaken in New Zealand, the article also provides an example of how services can respond to evidence about child development while maintaining sensitivity to local circumstances.

Services for juvenile sex offenders: Issues in establishing programs

Abstract Sexual offending by adolescent perpetrators is an area of concern that has received increased clinical attention in recent years. There has been a significant increase in the number of treatment programs for juvenile sex offenders in North America, and similar developments are occurring in the United Kingdom. In the South Pacific, the problem of adolescent offenders is also becoming a challenge for New Zealand and Australian service providers. While innovative, community-based treatment programs and therapeutic services exist in New Zealand, they tend to be relatively recently developed and sporadically located. Further, at the time of writing, no specialist residential services have been established for juvenile sexual offenders, despite an increasing need in this regard. In Australia, the services have largely been residential, provided by the Juvenile Justice system, and non-residential community-based programs have been slow to develop. This article will consider the issues involved in establ...

Supporting quality supervision: Insights for organisational practice

This article reports on the findings of a mixed-method study exploring the experiences of supervision within Australian social work. It looks particularly at the ways in which organisational cultures support supervision as a mechanism of practice improvement. The research suggests the need to better understand performance within the practice and supervision sphere, and create ways in which workers can be acknowledged to develop their skills in a supportive organisational environment. It argues that within a neoliberal context, supervision has the potential to assist in the management of competing workplace demands.

Trust, Power and Safety in the Social Work Supervisory Relationship: Results from Australian Research

Social work, as a discipline, places considerable importance on the provision of supervision, promoting it as a key process supporting critical reflection and practice improvement. A supervision relationship built on trust has the potential to provide a safe context within which practice issues can be explored. This article reports on an Australian study of social work supervision and the ways in which a trusting supervision relationship supports safe practice and critical reflection. A context of trust within the supervisory relationship is found to promote safe practice, providing the basis for what supervisees felt was satisfying supervision. Within a trusted and supportive supervisory relationship participants wanted and valued challenge which was seen to promote professional growth and positive client outcomes. Whether this occurs, however, depended on how power was exercised and how safe they felt in the supervisory relationship. The research argues the need for social work to reclaim supervision through a revitalised commitment to advancing supervision practice, research, and research-based policies.