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Research as Diaconia: Commitment, Action and Participation
Conventionally, diaconal research is conceived as research on diaconal practice. This article traces two separate yet parallel traditions that have shaped diaconal practice and influenced related research, in order to argue that research should rather be seen as diaconal practice in its own right.
Stålsett, Sturla Johan +2 more
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Social Network Enhancement: Bridging and Bonding the Social Networks of Child Welfare Involved Youth
ABSTRACT A supportive social network is crucial for the well‐being of child welfare involved youth; however, their social networks are often small and/or unable to provide necessary support. Child welfare workers can play an important role in strengthening and expanding the social networks of youth.
Idun Okland, Inger Oterholm, Eavan Brady
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Diaconia Through Church History : Five Ecclesiological Models
Brodd, Sven-Erik,
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Do Challenges in the Accessibility of Welfare Services Explain the Need for Food Aid?
The accessibility of welfare services is important for vulnerable groups. Reliance on charitable food aid has increased markedly across Europe in recent years, largely due to austerity policies and gaps in the welfare state.
Joakim Zitting +2 more
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The concept of ‘existential’, used frequently in Scandinavian healthcare journals, is associated with various, often unclear, meanings, highlighting the need for a more accurate understanding of the concept.
Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard +4 more
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ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the making of digital subjectivities that stem from the multiple data extractions that migrants experience. It argues that the digitalisation of the border regime does not produce data doubles as discrete and intelligible objects of knowledge; rather, it generates scattered digital subjectivities. Relatedly, it contends
Martina Tazzioli
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ABSTRACT Aim To critically appraise and synthesise qualitative evidence about patients' experiences of healthcare professionals' competence in digital counselling in healthcare settings. Design A qualitative systematic review. Methods The review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence.
Juulia Kaihlaniemi +7 more
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This article presents a qualitative study about perceived demanding and hurtful experiences communicated by 16 informants from some Pentecostal fellowships in Norway. The inclusion criterion was that they had experienced what they thought could relate to
Hans Eskil Vigdel +2 more
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Is Mercy a Category of the Modern Health Care Sector?
Mercy is among the basic virtues, one might say "values", of the Christian diaconia. However the rather naïve emphasis on mercy used by diaconal enterprises in reaction to the current economization of the social sector is problematic.
Ulrich H.J. Körtner
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