In dit rapport wordt het onderzoek beschreven dat is gedaan in opdracht van Toevlug, een rehabilitatiecentrum door drugs en alcoholverslaving. Zij hebben gevraagd onderzoek te doen naar het nazorgprogramma, omdat zij merken dat er veel terugval is onder de patiënten. Dit nazorgprogramma wordt meestal …

Knowledge sharing is of vital importance for the success of organizations. People are not always successful in locating information and experts, exchanging knowledge with others outside their close circle, and sharing information that is tacit and difficult to communicate. Organizations tried building …

It seems today that the streets in Mexico are littered with bodies of journalists. Since the ruling president, Felipe Calderón, declared war on drug cartels in December 2006, more than 30 journalists have been murdered or have gone missing. The escalating violence and attacks on Mexican media are emerging …

Multinational Enterprises (MNE) have various motivations for complying with human rights. Those motivations can be categorized into two distinct categories. The first of these entails benefits to the company, and are thus economic motivations. This group includes issues such as a stable business environment, …

Safety at work The objective of the project Safety at Work is to increase safety at the workplace by applying and combining state of the art artefacts from personal protective equipment and ambient intelligence technology. In this state of the art document we focus on the developments with respect to …

This article takes a close look at the openings of 12 different Dutch adoption assessment sessions. In the first of a series of 4 adoption assessment sessions, social workers perform different actions that are analyzed in detail. The overall focus is on how contact and relationships are established in …

The objective of this study is to contribute towards understanding how welfare and justice discourses become apparent in institutional conversations where social workers involved in child protection have dual professional identities: that of helper and of gatekeeper. In this article we analyse a specific …

This thesis is on institutional communication, and focuses in particular on interactional processes between social workers and prospective adoptive parents in assessment procedures for adoptive parenthood. These assessments are conducted in the Netherlands by the Child Protection Board (hereafter CPB). …

In dit artikel wordt een onderzoek naar de invloed van de organisatorische context op de uitval van jonge social professionals in de sector Jeugd en Gezin besproken. De belangrijkste uitkomsten uit de literatuur zijn dat er in organisaties vaak sprake is van tegengestelde belangen tussen managers en …

What is the meaning of social context for the connection between Psychologists and Social Workers with the organization they work for? Many professionals are searching for both professional space, and a fitting connectedness to the organization. This connection seems to be greatly influenced by social …