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Measuring quality in social care services: theory and practice [PDF]

, 2010
Measuring and assessing service quality in the social care sector presents distinct challenges. The 'experience' good properties of social care, for instance, and the large influence played by subjective judgements about the quality of personal ...
Fernández, José-Luis, Malley, Juliette
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Identifying and applying psychological theory to setting and achieving rehabilitation goals: development of a practice framework [PDF]

, 2009
Goal setting is considered to be a fundamental part of rehabilitation; however, theories of behaviour change relevant to goal-setting practice have not been comprehensively reviewed.
Dixon, Diane, Scobbie, Lesley, Wyke, Sally   +2 more
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Toward a Social Practice Theory of Relational Competing [PDF]

, 2018
This paper brings together the competitive dynamics and strategy-aspractice literatures to investigate relational competition. Drawing on a global ethnography of the reinsurance market, we develop the concept of micro-competitions, which are the focus of
Ayling D., Baker D., Baum J. A., Borscheid P., Bretz O., Burt R. S., Ernst & Young, Freeman R. E., Giddens A., Gugerli D., Knorr Cetina K., Kopf E., Miles M., Nicolini D., Nicolini D., Porter M. E., Schatzki T., Schatzki T., Thomson Reuters, Wolcott H., Yin R. K.   +20 more
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Street food environmental sustainability in a urbanizing global south: A social practice perspective

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Selling and buying street food is an every-day practice for millions of urban poor living in cities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These practices are embedded in social routines (e.g., for producing food to consuming it and disposing waste ...
Raffaele Vignola, Peter Oosterveer
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Thinking from Experience in Psychosocial Practice: Reclaiming and Teaching ‘Use of Self’ [PDF]

, 2014
A course based on psychosocial theory and students' experiences in practice has been taught in the UK, Norway and Quebec. It departs from the classical social work concept ‘use of self’ and aims to help novices in health and social work to understand how
Davies, Linda, Froggett, Lynn, Ramvi, Ellen   +2 more
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Evidence-based medicine – an appropriate tool for evidence-based health policy? A case study from Norway

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2016
Background Evidence-based policy (EBP), a concept modelled on the principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM), is widely used in different areas of policymaking.
Kirsti Malterud, Anne Karen Bjelland, Kari Tove Elvbakken   +2 more
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Social work training or social work education? An approach to curriculum design [PDF]

, 2014
Population ageing, economic circumstances, and human behaviour are placing social welfare systems under great strain. In England extensive reform of the social work profession is taking place. Training curricula are being redesigned in the context of new
Chris Ring, Health and Care Professions Council, Health and Care Professions Council, International Federation of Social Work, Social Care Institute for Excellence, Social Work Reform Board, Social Work Task Force, The College of Social Work, University of Brighton/Age UK (Brighton and Hove)   +8 more
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‘Being able to work has kept our life fairly constant:’ reconciling social practice models to assess the impact of (infra)structural inequities on household wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2023
Social practice theory offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the relationship between infrastructure and wellbeing. One prominent model in practice theory frames systems of provision as the rules, resources, and structures that enable the ...
Sonya Ahamed, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, William Lytle, Holly Caggiano, Cara L. Cuite, Charles Wallace, Ryan Cook, Rebekah Jarvis, Rachael Shwom, David Watkins   +10 more
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Addressing ethnicity in social care research [PDF]

, 2012
This article surveys recent developments in relation to the dimensions of ethnicity and ethnicdisadvantage in social policy research and practice, with a focus on social care.
Atkin, Karl, Craig, Gary, Vickers, Tom
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Sustaining induction teachers through partnerships: action research as a catalyst for change within complex contexts [PDF]

School-University Partnerships
Purpose – The purpose of this action research study was to design, implement and evaluate interventions that enhanced the induction program for new teachers in a P-12 school district.
Erica Gilbertson, Amy Murphy, Sonia Janis, Kathy Thompson, Michael Harris   +4 more
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