KWALON - Volume 23, Issue 2, 2018

Sociaal werk staat of valt met goede gespreksvoering. Immers, het belangrijkste instrument dat een sociaal werker heeft is het aangaan van een relatie met een hulpvrager waarin door middel van gesprekken gezocht wordt naar de kern van de hulpvraag. Ook de hulp zelf bestaat grotendeels uit gesprekken. Die gesprekken hebben tal van onderwerpen, variërend van werk en inkomen tot opvoeding en relationele problemen. Read More

Applied conversation analysis In this article we discuss the value of applied conversation analysis for social work practice. Results from a doctorate research on ‘Attachment in Interaction are presented’. Data from this research stem from a larger project entitled Professional Parenting in Family Treatment Homes. We show how applied conversation analysis can be used to reveal good practices, clarify how these practices work in Read More

Look at yourself! A reflection on images in research and in practice Social workers play an important role in helping multiproblem families to deal with multiple, interrelated and often intergenerational problems. Social workers indicate that effective collaboration – with clients, their family members and other professionals – is crucial. Defective collaboration can have major consequences for effective support. In this study, Read More

Alliance at Work – Observation research on the working relationship between care providers and families in intensive outreach family treatment Alliance is an important common factor in the treatment of youth and family problems. When working with multiple family members, building and maintaining strong alliances can be particularly challenging. Alliance at Work (Alliantie in Beeld) is a research project that investigates ho Read More

Palliative care in the picture?! This article describes a video-based observation research method to investigate the approach of healthcare professionals in a Dutch hospital when identifying palliative patients. We analyzed video recordings of eight multidisciplinary consultation meetings of four medical disciplines: cardiology, oncology, urology and geriatric care. The method of video-based observation suited the aim of th Read More

Communication between physicians and patients with a chronic illness – video observational research To be able to influence the patient’s behavior in a constructive way, it is important for physicians to have good communication skills and view the disorder from the patient’s perspective. The knowledge that the patient acquires through his or her own experience with the chronic illness, the physician needs to be able to unders Read More

Methodological reflections on video observation In various ways, the five research cases discussed in this volume show some characteristics of video observation as method: its intimate view on practices, the subtlety it allows in the analysis, and the variety in methodological elaboration and application. It brings us to discuss three methodological issues in the application of video observation: its presumed ‘natural’ character, t Read More

The value and challenges of video observation in social work In this contribution we reflect on the values and challenges of working with video observation in social work theory and practice. We do not discuss the methods themselves as part of our discussion; instead we focus on the contribution that working with such methods can bring to social work. We answer the question of why social work should be put into ima Read More

Dit onderdeel bevat de Engelstalige samenvattingen van de artikelen in dit nummer.