03_Workshops_English
09:00 - 10:00
Opening Ceremony
Anayansi Theater / Teatro Anayansi
10:00 - 10:15
Actividad Plenaria / Plenary Activity
Anayansi Theater / Teatro Anayansi
10:15 - 11:00
Actividad Plenaria / Plenary Activity
Anayansi Theater / Teatro Anayansi
Alessandra Korap
(Brasil)
11:00 - 11:30
Actividad Plenaria / Plenary Activity
Anayansi Theater / Teatro Anayansi
Ministra
María Inés Castillo
- Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
(Panama)
11:30 - 11:45
Inauguration Closing
Inauguration Closing
12:00 - 13:25
Lunch
ATLAPA Islands Room / Salón Islas de ATLAPA
- International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) - Regional Meetings
13:25 - 13:40
Creative Arts
Psychiatric Space: a visualizing mental health stigma
#1079 |
Psychiatric Space: a visualizing mental health stigma
Peter Szto
1
1 - University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Summary
Psychiatric Space is an ongoing series that aims to destigmatize perceptions about psychiatric care. This exploration prompts us to consider the following questions: How does culture influence the way we discuss and address mental health? How does culture shape our understanding of mental health concepts? To what extent do these cultural influences differ between the East and the West?\ By incorporating images that were utilized in my professional research and teaching, the slideshow format of this presentation directly engages the audience, shedding light on two interconnected epistemologies. First, it explores the optical aspects of visual acuity, which depend on the precision of optical and mechanical processes through which our minds perceive visible phenomena. Second, it delves into the subjective, perspectival, and interpretive nature of "seeing." Understanding how our minds perceive and interpret the social world is paramount in the field of social work. As a social worker, I rely on both ways of "seeing" to validate hypotheses and generate reliable forms of knowledge. This insight not only informs my professional practice but also allows me to connect more effectively with my clients and contribute to the promotion of social well-being. Psychiatric Space provided us with an understanding on how photography can be utilised as a medium of education, reflection, communication, and conversation.\
Keywords (separate with commas)
mental health, stigma, visualization
13:40 - 14:10
Area_10
The response strategy of humanitarian and social work in armed conflicts (the Case of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh))
14:10 - 14:40
Area_10
Integrative Social Work Practice and Response to Displacement
#0098 |
Integrative Social Work Practice and Response to Displacement
Mashkhura Akilova
1
;
Nancy Murakami
2
1 - Columbia University.
2 - Pacific University.
Summary
There are currently more forcibly displaced persons around the world than ever before recorded, and social workers are well suited to respond to this global humanitarian issue. The impacts are broad and complex, and many responders to humanitarian crises are insufficiently trained and supported. Currently, the field of humanitarian response is led by practitioners in public health, public policy, and international development, whose approach - while proper for their respective fields - may contribute to fragmented response and services provided to the displaced population. The core values, principles, and approaches of social work such as person-centered and human right-based practice, culturally-responsive care, and multi-system approaches, align with humanitarian response needs. This positions social workers to have increased leadership in establishing policy and practice responses, engaging in research, and practicing directly with forcibly displaced populations. However, the specialized knowledge and skills needed by social workers to work effectively and ethically in the humanitarian field can be challenging to teach to students.This workshop will present innovative pedagogical methods to train future social work practitioners, as well as practicing social workers in this field. The workshop will be conducted by editors and contributors to a book
Integrative Social Work Practice with Forcibly Displaced Persons, and will review the tools for integrative and interdisciplinary training to prepare social workers aiming to or currently practicing with displaced groups. Perspectives from macro, mezzo and micro levels of practice, as well as innovative approaches for educating social work practitioners-in-training will be discussed in this workshop. As a result, participants will be able to identify skills and competencies important for social work practice with diverse displaced populations; apply new pedagogical approaches and tools for training social work students; utilize resources to develop integrative curriculum training future social workers practicing with various groups of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Keywords (separate with commas)
refugees, asylum seekers, integrative social work practice, interdisciplinary, global
14:45 - 15:15
Area_01
Promoting Democratic and Political Rights of Persons with Disabilities - opportunities for social work activism
#0078 |
Promoting Democratic and Political Rights of Persons with Disabilities - opportunities for social work activism
Elaine James
1
;
Clare Reeves
1
1 - City of Bradford District Council.
Summary
In a 2011 paper, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights made the case that voting rights were arguably the most important aspect of participation in democratic and political life. Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 (ICCPR) sets out that every citizen shall have the right and the opportunity, without unreasonable restrictions to vote and be elected. Upholding the inherent dignity of all person's with disabilities and respecting autonomy are guiding principles, consistent with IFSW's Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles 2018. Our review of the international literature has found that people with disabilities experience:Unlawful exclusion on grounds of mental capacity and personal characteristics.The civic nature of participation in person by voting at polling stations being trivialised with proxy or postal alternatives.Silencing of voices of dissent as an inevitable outcome. This is in direct contradiction to the protective measure drafted in response to ICCPR within Article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006. Under Article 29, people with disabilities have not only the right, but also the opportunity, to vote and to be elected. This workshop shall use interactive media (Mentimeter, QR Coded Video Content) and group discussion to consider emergent findings from a 3 years study in England which is analysing the impact of a social work intervention which has been co-designed, discovered and delivered with disabled people: Promote the Vote. Our fidings from this practice research project are consistent with the hypothesis that people with intellectual disabilities are significantly more likely to register to participate and turn out on polling day to cast a vote if they are made aware of their right to do so by social worker who take a human capabilities approach towards their practice role.
Keywords (separate with commas)
Democracy, Political Rights, Voting, Disabilty Rights
15:15 - 15:45
Area_01
Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture: Integrating Human Rights and Social Justice into Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice
#0183 |
Toward the Creation of a Human Rights Culture: Integrating Human Rights and Social Justice into Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice
Joseph Wronka
1
1 - Springfield College, Massachusetts.
Summary
Defining a human rights culture as a “lived awareness” of human rights principles in our minds and hearts and integrated into our everyday lives, this workshop will: 1) define these principles
vis-à-vis the Human Rights Triptych consisting in brief of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the center; declarations, and conventions on the right panel; and implementation measures on the left; 2) discuss their implications for Advanced Generalist Social Work Practice, defined here as interventions to promote well-being on the meta-macro (global), macro (whole population), mezzo (at-risk), micro (clinical), meta-micro (everyday life), and research (quantitative and qualitative); and 3) discuss examples and joint social actions and struggles to create a socially just world constructed from these pillars of human rights as discussed in part in the third edition of the presenter’s book Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions (Cognella, 2023) (including an instructor’s manual). It is both didactic, yet participatory. To elaborate ,that Triptych articulates fundamental rights to human dignity, respect for diversity, peace, a clean environment and the interdependency of human rights. It will thus examine “Sisyphus like” multi-pronged interventions concerning mental illness, AIDS, substance use, mass shootings, mass incarceration, and COVID. Thus, to eradicate COVID, we must continue to encourage at risk strategies such as the wearing of masks and clinical ones to counsel those with long COVID. Yet, we must also go upstream to have a global vision that the meta-macro entails, to stop the exploitation of exotic environments to appease material appetites of richer countries. This workshop also has an extreme ethical dimension not only for social workers, but also for everyperson, everywhere, thus requiring fundamental character change to treat others with human dignity, in non-discriminatory ways, and fully aware of the interdependency of human rights.
Keywords (separate with commas)
Human Rights, Social Justice, Human Dignity, Advanced Generalist Practice, Macro mezzo and micro interventions, non-discrimination, the interdependency of rights, democracy, ethics
15:50 - 16:20
Area_12
Teaching Social Policy within Artificial Intelligence (AI) Environment; Ideology, Poetry, and ChatGPT
#0499 |
Teaching Social Policy within Artificial Intelligence (AI) Environment: Ideology, Poetry, and ChatGPT.
Oleksandr Kondrashov
1
1 - Thompson Rivers University.
Summary
ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a language model developed by OpenAI that uses deep learning to generate human-like responses to text prompts. ChatGPT is trained on vast amounts of text data and has been used for educational purposes, such as language learning, writing assistance, and even teaching social policy through poetry.The presenter will share ideas for social work educators on how to use critical pedagogies to prepare students for social justice work through the use poetry and ChatGPT to supplement teaching social policy and highlight challenges and opportunities for social work educators to address concerns related to AI use in the classroomUsing ChatGPT to teach social policy through poetry can be a unique and engaging way to encourage students to think critically about social policy issues while developing their creative skills and promoting social policy activism. However, it's important to note that while ChatGPT can be a helpful tool in teaching social policy through poetry, it should not be relied upon as a substitute for critical thinking or human interaction. Social work educators should still engage with students in meaningful discussions about social policy issues and encourage them to think critically about the world around them and address social justice concerns.
Keywords (separate with commas)
chat GPT, social policy, poetry
16:20 - 16:50
Area_12
Exploring the Use of Virtual Simulation-Based Learning in Social Work Education
#0436 |
Exploring the Use of Virtual Simulation-Based Learning in Social Work Education
Angelique Jenney
1
;
Olivia Cullen
1
;
Katreena Scott
2
1 - University of Calgary.
2 - Western University.
Summary
The use of simulation-based learning (SBL) has been demonstrated as effective in training students in professions such as social work. SBL is effective at teaching knowledge and competency-based skills and allows students the opportunity to move beyond just learning about something to doing something, and then reflecting, analyzing, and processing it, leading to improved responses in the future. Mental health issues for young people were exacerbated by the pandemic while students faced reduced availability of real-life practice opportunities, impacting their readiness for social work practice. Therefore, the authors adapted practice and experiential learning opportunities within an online environment to support students’ clinical practice development. The SBL scenario was adapted for online and virtual use in order to teach students how to respond to young people’s experiences of gender-based violence (GBV) within BSW and MSW level courses. The focus was on evaluating student learning, skill development and reflective practice. Data Analysis involved examining student reflective practice and evaluating student performance in using clinical skills in the SBL experiences. Preliminary results illustrate that GBV is still an area that requires specific skill development and the online environment is effective for student learning. Adapting in-person SBL to both live and virtual online formats has been successful in ensuring that students receive practice opportunities in a safe environment to enhance their social work competence. This workshop will discuss this innovative training approach using Virtual Gaming Simulations (VGS) to increase access to training and upskilling opportunities for both student and professional practitioners working with youth experiencing GBV. Presenters will discuss the use of SBL as a pedagogical approach to training practitioners in this field and provide opportunities for participants to engage in the experiential VGS learning experience directly. Applications for social work practice with young people will be discussed.
Keywords (separate with commas)
Simulation-based learning, Virtual Gaming Simulations, Social Work Education, Child/Youth Mental Health, Skill Development
16:55 - 17:25
Area_12
Digital Interventions in Mental Health: Barriers and Disparities
#0589 |
Digital Interventions in Mental Health: Barriers and Disparities
Bernadette Marson
1
1 - Adelphi University.
Summary
The COVID-!9 pandemic has increased the demand for mental health services. This accelerated the need for virtual and digital mental health services. However, it also imposed new barriers for those in search of care. Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to experience barriers. Cultural and social motivators can also increase disparities in digital mental healthcare for certain groups. To best serve diverse populations of users, digital mental health need to be available in various languages. Adapting evidence-based digital mental health into a new language typically requires cultural adaptations, rather than a straight language translation. Digital mental health care can be the driver for success if social workers, stakeholders, and designers focus on the needs of people with mental illness and the steps required for recovery. It must not only equip people and communities to better cope with the stressors created by the dysfunctional world, but also target the very drivers to the dysfunction through joint social action. This workshop will:Provide participants with an outline of digital mental health and the barriers faced by diverse and underserved populations. Participants will gain a unique perspective about digital mental health via an ecosystems approach. Participants will understand how joint social action could address solutions to the barriers associated with digital mental health.
Keywords (separate with commas)
Digital mental health, ecosystems approach, social action, disparities, barriers, racial and ethnic minorities.
17:25 - 17:55
Area_12
Exploring Digital Repositories as an Avenue to Increase Global Access to Social Work Research
#0204 |
Exploring Digital Repositories as an Avenue to Increase Global Access to Social Work Research
Elizabeth Lightfoot
1
1 - Arizona State University.
Summary
This workshop will introduce attendees to the various ways that social work researchers can disseminate their work via online repositories to increase access to international audiences. Social work scholars primarily publish their research in peer-reviewed journals, though these journals have limitations. Traditional journals have restricted access, limiting dissemination both to practicing social workers and to scholars at universities without access to expensive journals. High quality open access journals typically have hefty publishing fees which are cost-prohibitive to most social work scholars. Publishing preprints and postprints can not only assist with rapidly releasing findings but can also help increase the global visibility of research findings and make research accessible to researchers who cannot legally circumvent paywalls. We saw a rise of global interest in preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic, as much of our early scientific knowledge about COVID-19 was first distributed via preprints.This workshop will first introduce the benefits of publishing preprints and postprints, and then discuss scholars' concerns about publishing preprints and postprints, such as worries about publishing ethics, potential scooping, or publishing prior to peer review. Next, attendees will learn about various types of preprint and postprint digital repositories, such as SocArXiv, the international social science archive, and PsyArXiv, the international psychology archive, other institutional archives, as well as for-profit sites, such as ResearchGate and Academia, which have experienced legal challenges. Attendees will learn about Sherpa Romeo, a site which aggregates journal policies into a simple search engine so researchers can be sure they are complying with journal guidelines. Finally, attendees will be guided through all the steps of uploading a preprint onto SocArXiv. Attendees are encouraged to bring a device and a preprint of their own research with them, or they can simply follow along with the demonstration. Attendees are free to ask questions throughout the workshop.
Keywords (separate with commas)
digital repositories, social work research, preprints, postprints, journals, dissemination, global access, peer-review, research ethics
19:30 - 19:45
Inauguration Dinner
