Intention to Leave the Profession: Welfare Social Workers Compared to Health Care and Community Social Workers in Israel

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to compare specific work related-factors (personal factor: length of work experience; structural factors: personal subjection to violence and fear of being subjected to violence; and psychological factors: professional quality of life—compassion satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue) between welfare social workers (SWs) (n = 200) and health care and community SWs (n = 173). Furthermore, since the issue of turnover among SWs has important implications for the provision and programming of social services, the study also aimed to assess the relationship between these factors and SW intention to leave the profession. For the purpose of this study, online questionnaires were distributed to SWs working at social agencies and services. The findings suggest that the two categories of SWs showed a similarity with regard to the association between the personal and structural factors and intention to leave the profession. However, with regard to the psychological factors, the components of professional quality of life were found to operate differently in each category of SWs. It is suggested that future research examine other work-related factors and explore the intention to leave the profession among other social work specializations and employment sectors.     

司法考试背景下的法学本科教育改革

司法考试制度的改革给大学法学教育提出了新的要求,司法考试和法学教育存在着紧密的联系,同时二者也存在较大的差别。因此,如何处理法学教育与司法考试的关系,以及如何改进法学教育做到二者相辅相成,成为法学教育界研究的一个重要问题。通过更新法学教育理念,提高教师队伍素质,改革课堂教学方法等来改进和完善大学法学教育,实现法学教育与司法考试的紧密结合,促进二者共同发展。     

如何充分发挥高校工会在师德建设中的作用研究

如何加强师德建是高校工会工作的一项重要课题，也是体现工会服从于教育改革发展大局的一项重要工作。高校工会应在通过各种途径，协调学校相关部门开展师德建设中发挥应有的作用。     

论教师道德的底线

在人类道德发展史上,教师道德无论是从职业行为规范方面还是在个人道德修养上始终被认为应处于社会的最高水准,代表着社会道德修养的最高层次。教师道德在追求崇高的价值目标的同时,更要坚守教师道德的底线。教师道德的底线是教师职业活动中必须坚守的最低的道德要求。教师与学生的关系是教师道德所调节的伦理关系中最根本、核心的利益关系,相对于教师的利益,学生的利益具有道德上的优先性,学生利益的优先性就决定了教师道德的底线是,教师在任何时候都不能够损害学生的正当合法利益。     

"师道尊严"的批判、继承与创新

讲究"师道尊严"一直是中国文化传统中最耀眼的一个亮点.然而,对于现代教育而言,一味强调和遵循的"师道尊严",在一定程度上制约着教育事业的发展.文章反思"师道尊严"的历史传统,着眼"师道尊严"的现实影响,努力探讨与高校素质教育相适应的新型师生关系的内容以及创建的途径、方法.     

践行"三个代表"思想,推进医疗系统职业道德建设

本文结合学习江泽民"三个代表"思想的体会,论述职业道德建设与发展先进文化的密切关系,并结合医疗系统的具体实际,论述职业道德建设的重要性及具体措施.     

Social Work and the Treatment of Substance Abuse in Israel

SUMMARY

This paper examines the role of the social worker within the field of substance abuse in Israel at the start of the 21st century, its implications for the profession, and the training of its practitioners. Addiction to psychoactive substances is viewed as a bio-psycho-social phenomenon caused by a wide variety of factors and the respective interactions between them, placing it within the realm of the expertise of the social worker. The social worker plays a central role in providing both administrative and clinical interventions with this population. Additional ways in which the education and training of social workers can prepare them to deal more efficiently and comprehensively with the problem of substance abuse in both practical and academic terms is discussed.     

Professional discourse in winning images: objectivity and professional boundaries in environmental news images in the World Press Photo contest, 1992–2011

This article applies the ecological theory of professions to analyze professional discourse in the World Press Photo (WPP) contest, an international photojournalism contest held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The article analyzes the content of 148 photojournalism works that received environmental awards in the period 1992 to 2011, the two decades after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The article seeks to understand the representation and negotiation of objectivity and the claims of professional boundaries by the media of both developed and developing countries as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It also seeks to interpret the professional discourse of the WPP in relation to ideologies and power dynamics in both journalism and global environmental politics. The results suggested that the media of developed countries dominated the discourse, and the conventional notion of journalistic objectivity remained intact. However, the results also showed that global environmental politics and the situation of journalism created openings for the media of developing countries and NGOs to enlarge jurisdictional claims in the area of natural disaster reporting and to challenge the conventional notion of objectivity. The results also showed that the conventional notion of objectivity did not necessarily hinder explanations of the complexity of environmental issues, which was made possible by choosing unique angles of storytelling, planning multiple shots, and using richly suggestive, naturalistic images.     

加强判决释理与我国法官职业保障体系的构筑

一个国家司法制度的状况,根本上取决于运行这一制度的人,尤其是法官,法官的专业水准和道德素养,在很大程度上决定了司法制度是否公正、有效地运作,决定了判决释理的水平。所以切实提高法官自身素养、加快法官制度改革,是我国现行司法改革的一个重要环节,也是提高裁判说服力和公信力的重要途径。