The Shadow Fathers: Barriers to Whole Family Approach in Social Work

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/796" target="_blank" >https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/796</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.20377/jfr-796" target="_blank" >10.20377/jfr-796</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Shadow Fathers: Barriers to Whole Family Approach in Social Work

Original language description

Objective: The paper aims to explore the barriers to father involvement in family social work at the personal, cultural, and structural levels, and their interconnectedness to answer the main research question of how gendered constructions of mothers and fathers in social work affect the involvement of fathers in interventions. Background: This paper contributes to debates about fathers in social work by examining gendered constructions of fathers in social services for families with children in the Czech Republic. The problem is viewed from the perspective of social constructionism, anti-oppressive practice, and the whole family approach. Method: To meet the objective, we used a qualitative research strategy. 44 in-depth interviews with social workers, mothers, and fathers were carried out. After that, three focus groups with 21 social workers were formed. Results: The results show that mothers and fathers are treated differently in social work, and femininity and masculinity are perceived as dichotomous opposites. This hinders fathers’ involvement in family services and puts responsibility for solving family problems to mothers. Conclusion: Most of these barriers at the micro- and mezzo-levels are in some way related to system barriers at the macro-level, which are often shaped by gender discourses.

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/TJ04000152" target="_blank" >TJ04000152: Development of tools to support the involvement of fathers in social activation services for families with children and their pilot verification in practice</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 Family Research

ISSN

2699-2337

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

35

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

85-102

UT code for WoS article

000916468900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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