Social Workers Putting into Practice the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00139834" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00139834 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41134-023-00255-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41134-023-00255-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41134-023-00255-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s41134-023-00255-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social Workers Putting into Practice the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Original language description

For social work with adults with mild intellectual disabilities, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides a framework for putting the principles of social justice and human rights into practice. This article focuses on social workers' knowledge, values, and skills, which may contribute to the protection of the rights of adults with mild intellectual disabilities. A scoping review found no documented effective competencies for realizing human rights and social inclusion for adults with mild intellectual disabilities. As a result, a narrative review was conducted focusing on codes of ethics and competency profiles in the USA, UK, and Netherlands. The codes of ethics were found to align with the values of social justice, human dignity, integrity, competence/expertise, and relationship building. Differences between the codes of ethics and competency profiles were found in the human rights underpinning and weight given to advocacy, racism, dimensions of justice, and intersectionality. Six clusters of competencies were identified as aligning with CRPD aspirations: assessment, engagement, advancement, empowerment, intervention, and professionalism. We conclude that with regard to skills and knowledge, social work is profiled as a human rights profession in the USA and UK more explicitly than in NL. Regardless of the codes of ethics and competency profiles, convincing evidence that performing the competencies contributes to human rights realization is lacking. Further investigation of social work knowledge and skills that may be effective in the protection and promotion of human rights is recommended.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL02000376" target="_blank" >TL02000376: Inclusion Support in leisure activities for people with intellectual disability</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Human Rights and Social Work

ISSN

2365-1792

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

302-315

UT code for WoS article

001027442000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85164698481