Documentos de Trabajo Social. Revista de Trabajo Social y Acción Social
Colegio Profesional de Trabajo Social de Málaga y UMA Editorial
La construcción del valor en torno a la asistencia alimentaria. La experiencia del comedor comunitario «Mujeres ladrilleras organizadas» en territorios de segregación periurbana
The article addresses the human capacity to generate value from the ethnographic study of a case: the creation of a community kitchen (CC) in a peri-urban sector of the city of XXX (Entre Ríos, Argentina), in the context of the Covid pandemic -19. The case was selected due to the importance present in a collaborative trajectory prior to the management of the CC. For this study, David Graeber’s (2018) concept of value was taken as a reference framework, who states that this does not lie in the thing, but in the creative action that carries it out. To this end, a qualitative methodology was chosen, whose field work was carried out during the period 2022-2023 through participant observation, group interviews, spontaneous conversations, documentary analysis and photographic recording. From the analysis of the built material, the following results are recorded: the value as the transformation of food into food benefits intended for a population in contexts of persistent poverty; the value of recognition as prestige and legitimacy assigned by the residents of the “Los Hornos” neighborhood and by other social organizations and the value of the collective action of the group of women who acquired skills and discovered political potential in the management of the CC.
Copyright (c) 2026 Viviana Marcela Verbauwede https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Uso de la tecnología en la profesión del Trabajo Social: Análisis y reflexiones desde el ejercicio profesional
Technology has been implemented in our daily work, having a far-reaching impact on the professional practice of numerous professions. This fact leads us to understand the current impact and future projections of technology in the social work profession. To this end, we study the current scope of technology in different areas of social work practice, examining the most widely used resources and programs and, at the same time, the benefits and disadvantages of incorporating digitalization into social work intervention techniques and methods for both professionals and users. As an analysis, we gather the opinions of professionals in intervention areas related to health, minors, social services, the elderly, dependency, immigration, and the homeless. The aim is to understand their perceptions regarding the use of technology, as well as the ethical dilemmas they may face. Previously, and as a theoretical context, we present references linked to social work, addressing concepts related to technology and its incorporation into social work. For this study, in-depth interviews were conducted and analyzed, revealing the main finding that professionals still lack training in the use of technology. They opted to complement humanized care with technological resources, and they emphasized the need to improve technological accessibility in the social work profession.
Copyright (c) 2026 María Dolores Muñoz de Dios, Alicia García Cuesta, Cristina Belén Sampedro Palacios, Cristina Díaz Román https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Intervención ante divorcios altamente conflictivos: revisión sistemática y claves para los servicios sociales
This article presents a systematic review of scientific literature on intervention programs for families undergoing high-conflict divorce, aiming to identify common patterns to inform Social Services practice. Using a comparative analysis, 38 empirically based studies are examined and categorized by their effectiveness according to methodological rigor and outcomes. The most effective programs share key features: progressive group-based structure, experiential techniques, solid theoretical foundation, rigorous impact evaluation, and primarily voluntary participation. Structured child involvement also emerges as an added value. Effectiveness results from the synergistic combination of these elements, which address the emotional and relational dynamics underpinning the conflict. Based on these findings, the article proposes a practical and context-sensitive reference framework for designing interventions within Social Services, focused on safeguarding child well-being and strengthening coparenting.
Copyright (c) 2026 Esther Raya Díez, Marta Rubio Chavarría https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
El Trabajo Social aplicado desde la Universidad en la transferencia de conocimiento e innovación social en el desarrollo y consolidación de la Política Social con infancia y adolescencia del Municipio de Tegueste (Tenerife, Islas Canarias)
This summary presents the results of a social intervention project (2019-2025) coled by Social Work and the University. The project aimed to strengthen social policy for childhood in the municipality of Tegueste through knowledge transfer and social innovation. Transdisciplinary collaboration between municipal and university teams, even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, culminated in the implementation, consolidation, and development of this policy. This progress was recognized by UNICEF in 2021, which granted Tegueste the distinction of “Child-Friendly City.” The model applied by the University of La Laguna (Social Work Degree) demonstrates how the core functions of Social Work (planning, design, implementation, evaluation, and modification of services) can improve the governance and management of social policies targeting children. This includes providing technical advice for the management of basic, resource-oriented, and advanced services within local corporations. The knowledge transfer process is complemented by Service-Learning projects (ApS) under the MECA Model, where students contribute value to the intervention project. This generates evidence that directly impacts local social policy, highlighting the social value of the university within its community.
Copyright (c) 2026 Natalia Del Pino - Brunet, Juan Manuel Herrera Hernández, Maryurena Lorenzo Alegría https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Gangga saludable y sostenible: intervención comunitaria desde el Trabajo Social para el derecho al agua y la justicia ambiental en Lombok (Indonesia)
Gangga Saludable y Sostenible (Healthy and Sustainable Gangga) is an international cooperation project developed in Lombok Utara (Indonesia) by the NGO Balanced World and the Endri Foundation. Over two years, it combined community action with human rights, sustainability and gender equality approaches, promoting universal access to drinking water by installing more than 1,200 ecological filters in homes and 30 educational centres. Based on participatory methodologies, community assessments and local capacity building, it promoted public health, environmental awareness and empowerment, especially among women and school communities. The results show improvements in health, family finances and a reduction in plastic waste and CO₂ emissions. From the perspective of community social work, it constitutes a comprehensive and culturally adapted practice, based on feminist, intercultural, human rights and climate justice approaches, providing a transferable model for development cooperation, community health and environmental sustainability.
Copyright (c) 2026 Amanda Negrín Plata https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
El fenómeno de los huertos urbanos y sus posibilidades para el Trabajo Social Comunitario
This article examines the phenomenon of urban gardens from a socio-community perspective, analysing their potential as spaces for social cohesion, citizen participation and neighbourhood revitalisation in urban contexts marked by fragmentation and unwanted loneliness. Based on a methodology that combines a literature review and participant observation in the community garden Ensancha el huerto (Alcorcón, Madrid), the study explores the social, symbolic and relational meanings that these spaces acquire in contemporary neighbourhoods. The analysis shows that urban gardens operate as micro-ecosystems of mutual support, intergenerational learning, knowledge democratisation and territorial reappropriation, embodying practices that challenge individualism, productivism and neoliberal urbanism. The findings also highlight the relevance of urban gardens for Community Social Work, as they serve as tools to strengthen social ties, promote informal participation and foster shared care practices. The article reviews experiences from different territories in Spain and offers a critical reflection on the risks associated with institutionalisation, commodification and the legal insecurity surrounding such initiatives. Finally, it argues for the inclusion of urban gardens in the Social Work agenda as valuable community devices to address loneliness, enhance group cohesion and promote more sustainable, inclusive and cooperative ways of inhabiting the city.
Copyright (c) 2026 Mercedes Muriel Saiz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Trabajo Social comunitario para abordar la vulnerabilidad energética en contextos locales
Energy vulnerability represents one of the most critical emerging challenges for social services, directly affecting the health, well-being and dignity of people in situations of social exclusion or vulnerability. This article presents the systematization of the applied research of TecEnerGía 1.0, developed between July 2024 and April 2025 in collaboration with the Community Social Services and social entities of District 5 of Huelva. The proposal stands out for its participatory, inter-institutional and methodological innovation-oriented approach in Social Work. The research is structured in three phases: 1) Participatory diagnosis through two discussion groups with users (n=16); 2) Energy literacy workshop, given by a specialized cooperative (AeioLuz), with adapted materials; 3) Social transfer actions such as a collective return day and the elaboration of two videos: one on the project itself and the other with practical advice. The results indicate limited knowledge about energy efficiency and structural deficiencies in homes. The workshops increased skills to manage consumption and bills, promoting individual and community empowerment. In addition, the project strengthened institutional collaboration in the territory and provided practical tools for improving energy efficiency.
Copyright (c) 2026 Elena Ferri Fuentevilla, Teresa Gómez Rasco, Daniel Hernández Ortuño, Octavio Vázquez Aguado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Recuperar para avanzar. Proyecto de Intervención dirigido a Personas Adultas Jóvenes con Enfermedad Mental provocada por Consumo de Drogas en la Provincia de Salamanca
Drug use has increased the incidence of mental disorders and health problems, generating serious personal and social consequences. In response to this reality, the “Recover to Move Forward” Project was launched, aiming to improve the cognitive and social abilities of individuals with severe mental illness resulting from psychoactive substance use in the province of Salamanca. The intervention is based on a review of the main psychiatric pathologies linked to drug use and their impact on mental health. Based on this analysis, a psychosocial intervention is proposed, structured around various programs and activities focused on developing key competencies (cognition, physical exercise, social skills, personal hygiene, and household tasks). Lasting two years, the Project aims to achieve a significant improvement in the cognitive and social skills of all participants, promoting their autonomy and quality of life.
Copyright (c) 2026 Patricia Curto de Miguel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Relevancia y ventajas de la intervención social para la recuperación de las relaciones familiares y extinción de conflictos desde un enfoque preventivo. Programa Nayfa en la provincia de Almería
This article deals with the psychosocial and psychotherapeutic intervention carried out by the Nayfa Program (Preventive program for children and adolescents in situations of difficulty and/or conflict in the family environment), whose purpose is to improve family dynamics, extinguishing conflicts arising between different members of the family, which can become chronic and limiting in the recovery of adequate and positive family relationships. To this end, special attention is paid to the situation in which the children and adolescents assisted are, since on many occasions, disruptive behaviors on the part of children and adolescents have their origin in a situation of discomfort in the family environment. In addition, with the implementation of the Nayfa Program, the aim is to provide support to parental figures who have deficits in relation to the upbringing of their children, which hinders a safe and healthy family dynamic. Any improvement in family relationships will increase the probability of avoiding conflict situations in other contexts, which could lead to the recovery of families that would not have to be attended by other services and teams whose intervention is focused on more serious situations.
Copyright (c) 2026 Rocío Alonso Madueño https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Dolor crónico no oncológico (DCNO) y Trabajo Social Sanitario. Una experiencia práctica de intervención grupal en atención primaria de salud
Health Social Work carries out individual, group and community interventions with different groups, such as people with DCNO. The Integrated Care Process (PAI) for DCNO of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) establishes that we collaborate in the development of the Individualized Comprehensive Therapeutic Plan (PTI), also implementing actions related to other Strategies: Patient Safety, Stop Benzodiazepines, Healthy Lifestyle Habits… In the Clinical Management Unit (UGC) of the Guadalquivir District and North Health Area of Almería, I have been referred patients with DCNO for group interventions because they improve their health and prevent the appearance of new health problems: they reduce the morbidity rate. This article presents a methodological proposal based on practical experience that demonstrates benefits for patients and requires knowledge of a common language related to DCNO.
Copyright (c) 2026 Aránzazu Rodríguez Jover https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Contraste de la calidad de vida entre personas con discapacidad intelectual y profesionales de servicios de vivienda: el caso de la organización mater
This research measures the Quality of Life of the beneficiaries of the Housing Support and Supervised Housing services of the Mater Organization according to their perception and that of the professionals who attend them. For this purpose, a quantitative methodology was chosen, implementing the INICO-FEAPS multidimensional Quality of Life scale (8 dimensions), to a total sample of 30 people (17 women and 13 men). Statistical analyses (validity and reliability test, descriptive comparative analyses and paired samples t-tests) revealed that professionals perceive a higher Quality of Life than the beneficiaries themselves of the Supervised Housing and Housing Support services, and that the Emotional Well-being dimension is the most affected in both services. This leads us to rethink the intervention models from Social Work and whether the services are truly focused on people’s needs.
Copyright (c) 2026 Margarita Ripoll Ballester https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Comunidades para cuidar, proteger y prevenir: la comunidad como elemento de tratamiento contra la violencia sexual desde la visión del Trabajo Social.
This article analyzes the impact and role of the social, family, and community environment in criminal desistance, re-education, and social reintegration in the context of sexual offenses, as these are one of the types of crimes that can generate the greatest social alarm. Joint, coordinated, and transdisciplinary interventions with this group, as well as with their reference socio-family and community environments, are key to preventing potential future criminal behavior. Changing the intervention paradigm and integrating a social perspective into prison treatment will optimize its outcomes. Relational connections and social interactions are key aspects for overcoming criminal behavior: community involvement in prison treatment is urgently needed. Reference environments and the support they offer will facilitate the re-education and social reintegration process for people deprived of their liberty or other rights. This article focuses on theoretical reflection on sexual violence, the treatment of perpetrators, and the involvement of the socio-family and community environment as fundamental elements on which the process of desistance and overcoming criminal behavior must be based.
Copyright (c) 2026 Cristina Filardo LLamas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Domestic violence from a gender perspective: discourse of victims and perpetrators
The main purpose of this work is to show the results of an investigation, it seeks to understand the sociocultural constructions that replicate violence into families and to identify the definition about masculinity and femininity associated with family violence by masculine and feminine aggressors. Participants performed 19 interviews to victims of domestic violence, aggressors and custodian of the victims. Results found charges show that essential sociocultural constructions that prolong this violence are: patriarchal imaginaries, feminization of domestic work, imaginary about motherhood, reproduction of violence lived in childhood, imaginary about masculinity, economic relations of inequality and dependence, as well as pathologies such as zelotypia or alcohol intake.
Copyright (c) 2025 Mercedes Rodríguez López, Carmenza Jiménez Torrado, Carolina Hamodi Galán, María del Rosario Blanco Ocampo, Ariana Marcela Salazar Cohen, María del Pilar Morad de Martínez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Social Work in the Housing Sector: An Approach to Training and Research as Elements of Professional Qualification
The present research deals with the analysis of training and research variables in the field of housing and the territory, and its relation with the professional practice of Social Work in this area of intervention. With this objective we have analyzed the degree and postgraduate curricula of Social Work of the Andalusian Universities, as well as the scientific articles published in the journals indexed in the area of knowledge of Social Work and Social Services. It presents a document that intends to be the basis for a reflection on how to qualify social workers who work (or intend to do) in this field of action.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Belén García Sánchez, Eva María Juan Toset , Pilar Melania Ortiz Rodríguez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The international situation of refugees and their image on Twitter. A challenge for social work interventions.
Since its beginning, the refugee crisis has produced a lot of public opinion through social networks and has been a challenge for coexistence and social intervention. The aim of this article is to identify the discourses that are being disseminated though Twitter about the refugees, and that are related to the intervention in Social Work. Data were extracted from Twitter from mid-December 2015 until mid-December 2016. Near two millions of tweets were extracted with the keyword “refugees” in six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), through of the NodeXL extraction tool. For this article only the data in Spanish were used. After the data mining procedure, we applied different strategies for filtering, transforming, and coding data in order to identify the issues related to the different levels of social intervention. Results show how the three classic levels of intervention in Social Work (individual-family, group and community) are present in the discourses about refugees on Twitter, making possible to design strategies for the intervention.
Copyright (c) 2025 Carolina Rebollo Díaz , Estrella Gualda Caballero https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Another form of Gender Violence: Instrumentalization. "Where does it hurt the most?"
Our society is still under the blueprint of patriarchy and male chauvinist culture and, as a consequence, gender violence shows. Usually, behind all of the forms, we can always find psychological violence, more invisible but more frequent. One of the mechanisms used in psychological gender violence is the instrumentalization, specially used through children. Therefore, with this research it is intended to highlight the importance of psychological violence as an essential part of gender violence, as well as analyze children instrumentalization as a way to use psychological violence towards women. To answer it, this research has been designed, set in Andalucía, in order to obtain this information through interviews to professionals who work with women and children victims of gender violence. Firstly, in this document it is presented an insight of this research set in the provinces of Seville and Cádiz. Thus, from this insight we can conclude that, despite its frequency, not enough research have been done on instrumentalization. Also, an improvement on judicial coverage and a stronger specific intervention from social work’s professionals is needed.
Copyright (c) 2025 Guadalupe Cordero Martín, Carmen López Montiel, Ana Isabel Guerrero Barberán https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Social Work and Peacebuilding: An Approach to the Social Representations of the Young School Group of the Rumbo de Paz Project
The research entitled: “Representations and social practices around the Peacebuilding of Young Schoolchildren” was developed under Project Rumbos de Paz, which has been implemented since 2016 in the border context; the findings are part of the narratives of the students belonging to the Secondary Walk Program of the La Frontera School, of the Municipality of Villa de Rosario, specifically in the La Parada district; a scenario with high social vulnerability and demand for protection through the direct influence of the Colombian Internal Armed Conflict and the border crisis with the Venezuelan state. In tune, it was sought to recognize the worldviews and practices around the peace building of the young people focused by the Project oriented from the theoretical and methodological horizon of the Theory of Social Representations of Moscovici and the different contributions towards a Theory of Peace as well as from the Social Diagnosis of the Social Work Group Method; in such a way, a qualitative model is set up based on the survey of the Initial Baseline for the characterization of the social subjects from the statistics. In this way, peacebuilding is assumed from the negative, positive and neutral vision of the concept of peace, and also that peacebuilding is part of a collective action by all social and political actors. Collected, it becomes a fundamental input for the Training in installed capacities from and with young people integrating the visión of Social Work.
Copyright (c) 2025 Cristhian Adrián García Vergara, Maritza Carolina Jaimes Márquez, Sandra Liliana Melo Barajas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Job insecurity as a factor in the deprofessionalization of social work. Analysis and proposals from an expert perspective
The objective of this research is to understand the process of deprofessionalization of Social Work by way of job insecurity to offer key elements that reinforce their professionalization and open the way to professional development. The research question is how the precarization of the labor market of social workers deprofessionalizes Social Work. To answer this question, a qualitative research based on discourse analysis was conducted through 50 in-depth interviews with Social Work experts in Spain. It is concluded that precarization, deregulation, the supply of generic jobs, unemployment and underemployment have caused a status and a weak social recognition of social work as a profession. Social work as a liberal profession has developed in Spain and is a solution to the precariousness of the labor market.
Copyright (c) 2025 Arantxa Hernández Echegaray https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Approach to the phenomenon of child-parent violence
In this research project we will focus on the approach of the action carried out by the Community Social Services in the matter of filioparental violence. This study presents the results of interviews with eight Social Workers working in the community. In order toanalyze these interviews, the qualitative methodology, more specifically, thematic analysis has been used. In this way, four thematic blocks, interrelated to each other, have been obtained, on which the participants base the analysis of the phenomenon: “Explanations to the phenomenon of filioparental violence”, “Intervention”, “Techniques” and “Proposals for improvement”. Following this analysis of the thematic blocks in relation to the interviews carried out, it is concluded that early intervention with cases of filioparental violence is essential since the predominant cases of violence are those perpetrated by adolescents who have not had an adequate intervention in their childhood, as well as to the importance of approaching the situation by the Social Worker of Community Social Services, intervening with the aggressor and the affected family, based on the ecological model of intervention (Bronfenbrenner, 1987). Finally, future lines of research appear to continue to delve into what should be the intervention protocol of the Community Social Services Centers in the matter of filioparental violence, with the aim of facilitating intervention to the Social Work professionals of those centers.
Copyright (c) 2025 María Belén Rosa Ivernón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Senior Cohousing: An Emerging Residential Resource
Elders, are often seen in Western society as passive agents of their own reality. The present work proposes to know aging from a 2.0 perspective. Thus, it has observed the elderly as participatory entities of their own change, forced in part by a systemic failure of the Welfare State, which has helped to promote ideas of change in those who don’t want to leave their future in the hands of external decisions and plan an active aging formalized in self-managed housing and surrounded by the people they choose. For more than two years, we are working on the search and reading of a diverse bibliography that shows the journey of more than five decades, which has cohousing. We’ve been in contact with several centers of cohousing and residential ones, in a personalized way when possible, or online when geographical distances preclude a closer approach. Ous objective has been to find out what benefits this mode of coexistence brings to society, to users, and even to institutions, and also to analyze the role of the social worker, still incipient in our country too, in these coexistence models.
Copyright (c) 2025 Elsa Gummà Serra , María Rosario Castilla Mora https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The text tries to provide elements of reflection on the debate about the need to continue incorporating into the theory and practice of Social Work an epistemology that assumes an ethical perspective, from the interdisciplinary, cooperation and responsibility that responds to the new social conditions of society global and complex network in which we live that drives us to be primarily liquid consumers. If something should distinguish contemporary social work is its commitment to people, especially the most disadvantaged. In this sense I believe that this commitment must be manifested through ethics, which reflects and points out the object of our being, and to achieve this we must use controlled methodologies and technologies in accordance with the conditions historically determined today, but without losing the moral sense that should lead us to the happiness of all human beings, In the world of everyone and anyone we inhabit and share, rethinking our goals can help us to be happier, more just and more supportive with fewer instruments and more sanity. For this we must be able to define our goals and cooperate in areas that allow intergenerationality as spaces for transmitting values and knowledge that go beyond instrumentalization and allow through interdisciplinary, to face the social complexity that we live and to talk about the better and necessary purposes for a good society, that is to say that it gives answers and alternatives to the unsatisfactory way of life that many people suffer today. From a contemporary epistemological, ecological knowledge and based on an ethics of virtues, today more than ever I think it is important to know what is important, to be in common and not lose the skills necessary to live together.
Copyright (c) 2025 Francisco Romanco Villarán https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Perceptions of coping strategies among professionals working with people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
The socio-health professionals are particularly exposed to psychosocial risk factors that can affect their quality of life, especially when working with people with incapacitating and incurable diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). According to the scientific literature, working with people who are at the end of their lives, sometimes causes the onset of burnout or empathy fatigue, among other stressful consequences. The objective of the present article is to know the perception that the healthcare professionals have of their own strategies of coping when they work with people affected by ALS. To this end, a sample of 22 socio-health workers attending people affected by the disease in the Region of Valencia, have self-assessed the level of rational and emotional coping they have of ALS, as well as their training in these issues and their professional satisfaction. The study shows that the predominant level of coping is of a medium degree and it makes relevant that there are deficiencies in their training about how to communicate bad news and in the accompaniment of sick people and their relatives. Nevertheless, they are satisfied with the work they do.
Copyright (c) 2025 Inmaculada González Herrera https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Critical analysis of public employment policies on disability and gender
This research aims to analyze and guide policy makers, technical staff and activists in the effective inclusion of women with disabilities in the design of public employment policies. The main theme was the United Nations Human Rights Treaties of reference: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CDPD; and on the other hand, the II Manifesto of the Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities of the EU, whose content has been the vehicle element on which to articulate my critical analysis of public employment policies in Disability and Gender.
Copyright (c) 2025 Patricia Martín Trillo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Addressing the challenge of digital transformation from a social work perspective
Social network services are allowing more social connectivity and making possible sharing information and knowledge of a different nature. This article analyses whether professionals related to active social policies who are working at Malaga, Spain and are using social network services to share information and knowledge and if there is a mirror between online and offline relationships. Since an experimental model, through virtual ethnography and via social network analysis methodology, is observed the presence and connectivity as well as analyzed the relational structure that sustained 77 professionals from 13 organizations on Facebook®. Moreover, it uses the statistical technique of modularity (Girvan y Newman, 2002) was employed to detect online communities, which were compared with distribution of professionals in their organizations. Also its has been identified the influencers nodes (Del Fresno García, 2015). On the other hand, through Clustering Coefficient the “small world” effect (Milgram, 1967). has been reproduced. The results show how social networking services applied to social intervention are massively and frequently used by professionals. Moreover, the detected communities reflect existence of analogy between online and offline relationships. The online structure demonstrates a high degree of cohesion and reveals how certain professionals have higher capacity of influence and diffusion depending on position in the online structure (Burt, 2005). It argues about the opportunity to incorporate social network services towards social intervention as a manner of social innovation to improve cooperation and diffusion of information and knowledge.
Modularity and Clustering Coefficient Algorithms
Copyright (c) 2025 Joaquín Castillo, María de las Olas Palma García, Luis Gómez Jacinto Gómez Jacinto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Proposal for Family Mediation Intervention Based on Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is becoming an important dimension due to its possible influence over the mediation process. It is becoming more integrated in mediation programs in different countries. Current field work is trying to expand the knowledge of the role that emotions play in the mediation process and in mediators. It also describes some of the key emotional elements or competencies that mediators should adopt to conclude the mediation process with satisfactory results for all parties. It presents a proposal for intervention and the practice of mediation in a family environment, integrating Emotional Intelligence and its dimensions as the backbone of the intervention. Understanding emotional factors creates the opportunity to restore, preserve, or improve relationships.
Copyright (c) 2025 Elena Gamarra Jiménez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The changing profile of social service users in turbulent times
This research focuses its objectives in the change that has occurred as a result of the economic crisis, the profile of people users who come to the General Social Services. On the one hand, as a result of social exclusion and poverty have increased basic social needs, the classic profile of people in social exclusion, as well as new profile of person in exclusion with specific problems. On the other, they have been dismantled many of the basic cares and institutional social resources, at times that are most essential, leading to a serious imbalance of the binomial needs, resources. To investigate the circumstances described, we have performed a quantitative empirical work with a representative sample of demanding people users of Social Services of Marbella, in accordance with the provisions of the research objectives.
Copyright (c) 2025 Darío Hidalgo Domínguez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Study of expectations, perceptions, and satisfaction with the experience of interdisciplinary work among university students: a pilot experience
The objective is to promote a pilot study on an interdisciplinary learning experience at the University of Almeria. The sample used was 48 students from two Faculties (Psychology and Social Work) who voluntarily participated in this essay. An instrument was applied before the teaching session (to know their expectations regarding interdisciplinary team work) and after the teaching session (to know their perception and their degree of satisfaction), these tools were elaborated “ad hoc”. The results demonstrate the degree of satisfaction that students have with this experience, the positive assessment that the students make regarding the implication that this activity has for their academic training and also for their professional future.
Copyright (c) 2025 Carmen María Salvador, María Daniela Jurado Pérez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Knowledge and recognition of social work in gerontological practice
The present report aims to make known the work done, thanks to the obtaining of a Social Worker temporary job position, subsidized by the program of local corporations, during the second semester of the year 2016, at the Municipal Nursing Home of Castro-Urdiales, the ‘Santo Hospital Civil’. This is a pioneering experience in that center, which had never counted with a Social worker among its employees. It is for the interesting of its implementation and for the defense of the need for the Social work in the field of the Gerontology, by what this article is written.
Copyright (c) 2025 Macarena Paz Burgos Martínez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Social work, criminal law, and forensic work: Theoretical and methodological approaches to determining the extent of harm caused by homicide crimes
The article is intended to make a significant contribution to the exercise of the professional practice of social work transversal to the judicial field and criminal law. In consent, to ponder the social report as a relevant technical instrument in relation to estimating the extent of the damage as an element of expert evidence in judicial cases where the crime of homicide is investigated. Therefore, to set up relevant aspects that may arise from the challenges of exercising professional practice in judicial processes where different disciplines converge.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sergio Óscar Libera Medina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Study of an emerging reality in Social Work: transsexuality from a socioconstructionist perspective
This work have as purpose to know how transsexuality is building himself socially from speeches of those interviewed, approaching their experiences and contributing to a better social awareness and visibility to the transsexual community. The methodology of qualitative research used in the Discourse Analysis of Potter and Wetherell (1998), from interpretative concepts. We identify three interpretative repertoires that contribute to the social presentation of this reality from a socioconstructionist perspective: “Define our transsexuality”, “A barrier to destroy” and “Social support networks”. The main results of the study revealed the influence of the heteronormativity and cisnormativity in the construction of their identity, such as, the invisibility and ignorance as reasons of discrimination and social exclusion. Thus, from Social Work is to promote the respect of diversity in every area of social relations, thus, this is essencial to take responsability that the society respect the existing sexual diversity, such as sexual orientation as gender identity, as transsexuality.
Copyright (c) 2025 Inmaculada Patricia López Vigara, Laura Domínguez de la Rosa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0