This article describes a collaborative experience between Social Work students from the University of Barcelona (UB) and young users of La Casa Jove–Dar Chabab, a day centre in Barcelona supporting young community leaders, primarily of migrant origin and formerly under the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA). The collaboration centred on organising an exhibition and a Zentangle workshop. The initiative enabled both students and young people to share experiences, break down cultural barriers and build meaningful relationships.
Concern over the violation of children’s rights has motivated this study, which seeks to evaluate the functioning of specialised, comprehensive intervention programmes that offer therapeutic responses to various forms of child abuse in the Valparaíso region of Chile. A mixed-methods approach is employed, examining critical elements of the programme’s design, implementation and outcomes, specifically in the cities of La Calera, La Ligua, Ovalle and Los Vilos. The study concludes that, although the intervention models used demonstrate statistical effectiveness, significant
This article aims to present our professional experience in implementing the Municipal Model for the Prevention of Child Labour in the province of Misiones, Argentina. It summarises the progress achieved through a training activity resulting from cooperative engagement between the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the National University of Misiones (UNaM) and the Association Sueño para Misiones in 2020.
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on Generation Z, which made it necessary to design health promotion projects aimed at mitigating its effects. For this reason, a quantitative-descriptive research was undertaken orientated towards understanding their lifestyle habits with the purpose of incorporating their own vision. 588 high school students from an urban environment, aged between 11 and 17, of both sexes and non-binary participated.
The field of democratic memory has scarcely been explored as a specific area of professional intervention within the disciplines of social work and social education. Unlike other countries, Spain’s sole Democratic Memory Law dates back only to 2022, despite almost half a century having passed since the end of the dictatorship. One direct consequence of this persistent lack of recognition, justice and reparations for the victims is that it has denied families the opportunity to mourn, with trauma being passed down generationally to the present day.
Continued social changes and contextual diversity are giving rise to new health needs. Key social components are becoming increasingly significant, adding to the psychosocial complexity that goes hand in hand with medical complexity. Paediatric palliative care is not immune to modern-day realities and it is influenced by social and political factors. Accordingly, it has become important to highlight the existence of social complexity factors when it comes to the assessment, social intervention and support of patients and families.
The Family Group Conference (FGC) is a model of family intervention originating from the Maori of New Zealand. During the 1980s it expanded to encompass other countries. The goal is to lend prominence to families so that they themselves and their network can make decisions to address their concerns.
Since 2017, Osona Acció Social has been promoting a pioneering experience in Catalonia with the FGC, training 50 professionals. This has given rise to a steering group that engaged in 14 attempts to implement the FGC between 2017 and 2021.
Within child protection work involving families with children at risk, the safety of said children has been traditionally prioritised over the stability of family ties, often leading to coercive and adversarial situations involving families which frequently lead to the child being taken away. The unsuccessful outcomes of these typical practices have given rise to a call for cooperation between professionals and families which must unfold in the form of specific interventions in order to go beyond simple rhetoric.
Although pondering on death among children and young people is a disagreeable responsibility, the goal of paediatric palliative care is to strive to provide end-of-life support for children. Paediatric palliative care is established as the specialist field that deals with illnesses for which no cure is available. From a multidisciplinary position, the comprehensive paediatric palliative care network of Catalonia (XAPPI) is being implemented to provide a biopsychosocial and spiritual response for patients and families facing illnesses for which no possible treatment is available.
As a child protection measure, family fostering takes precedence over residential fostering because it allows the child to develop within a family. However, despite continued efforts in this area this priority has not yet been delivered.
Indeed, Spain has not engaged in developing a model for professionalised family fostering, although the scope for it has been mentioned since 1996 in our Civil Code (Royal Decree, 24 July 1889).
