Publications

How to understand diversity in citizens’ care attitudes

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Intersectionality in informal care research: a scoping review

Aim: Informal caregivers share common experiences in providing care to someone with health and/or social needs, but at the same time their experiences differ across diverse backgrounds such as gender, age, culture, ...

Work ability among employees 2–10 years beyond breast cancer diagnosis: Late treatment effects and job resources - A longitudinal study

BACKGROUND:<br/>The number of workers who have previously undergone a cancer treatment is increasing, and possible late treatment effects (fatigue, physical and cognitive complaints) may affect work ...

Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders

Based on 13 interviews with Eritrean status holders and professionals in Amsterdam this article explores how paying attention to media skills and media literacies may help gain a better understanding of what matters ...

The bumby roads to togetherness

Inzetten op motivatie om deelnemers aan armoede- en schuldenprojecten te bereiken en te behouden

De persoonlijke motivatie van deelnemers om daadwerkelijk iets aan hun situatie te willen veranderen, is belangrijk voor de mate waarin lokale armoede- en schuldenprojecten een verschil kunnen maken. Tegelijkertijd ...

Work functioning beyond return to work past cancer diagnosis

The focus of this PhD research is on the chronic late effects of cancer treatments 2 - 10 years past cancer diagnosis and work functioning.

The responsibilization of entrepreneurs in legalized local prostitution in the Netherlands

By way of a case study on the regulatory role of owners and managers of brothels and rented rooms for prostitution, this study focuses on the strategies deployed by a municipality to govern these intermediaries. The ...

Growth opportunities in professional youth work.

Professional youth work contributes to the personal development of young people in vulnerable situations, strengthens their social networks and increases their social participation. This is apparent from the ...

Toward a futureproof equilibrium in the City of Amsterdam: Measuring city hospitality experience of visitors and residents

Urban tourism increasingly focuses on the role of hospitality in cities, evolving from a means to strengthen tourism as a ‘product’, towards a focus on tourism as an opportunity for revitalization and ...

CO2 reduction through shared mobility: A review of psychological factors for the switch from a private car to shared transport

Understanding the social-psychological aspects of collective neighbourhood initiatives in the energy transition

Learning lab in Dutch youth work

In a society with increasingly unequal access to opportunities and an expanding pressure on youngsters to perform, safe spaces where socially vulnerable youngsters are allowed to learn and develop valuable skills are ...

A realist synthesis of neighbourhood interventions for families in the community

What works for whom: A realist synthesis of neighbourhood interventions for families in the community

Neighbourhood interventions are important for creating supportive structures for parents and children and for other community members. Little is known, however, about what works for whom in what situation. The aim of ...

The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary

Human behaviour change is necessary to meet targets set by the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. Restrictions and regulations put in place globally to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 have had a ...

The social acceptance of airborne wind energy

Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems use tethered flying devices to harvest higher-altitude winds to produce electricity. For the success of the technology, it is crucial to understand how people perceive and respond ...

Peter and the gauls in the Roman Empire

Forum theatre as participatory action research with community workers

In Amsterdam, just like in 87 % of all municipalities in the Netherlands, integrated neighbourhood teams have been installed as an answer to the reform of the welfare state. During the last decade, the social domain ...

A place for all, is a place for no one

Should social programs target finances, health, or well-being

High-income countries have made enormous health gains over the past century and a half. In the Netherlands, life expectancy increased with three years per decade. And more of those years are spent in good health. ...

Toolkit

This toolkit, originating from the research group Psychology for Sustainable Cities, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), contains materials that help to promote behavioural change in relation to electric ...

Late Effects of Cancer Treatment, Job Resources, and Burnout Complaints Among Employees With a Breast Cancer Diagnosis 2–10 Years Ago: A Longitudinal Study

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of possible late effects of cancer treatment (physical complaints, fatigue, and cognitive complaints) and of two job resources (autonomy and supportive ...

Increasing recreational nitrous oxide use: Should we worry?

<p>Background: Since 2000, the prevalence of recreational nitrous oxide (N ₂O) use has increased in the Western world. Although N ₂O is ...

Connecting the threads to make fashion sustainable

Video Feedback to Enhance Fidelity in Practice-Based Interventions for Young People, a Small-<i>n</i> Study

Competent delivery of interventions in child and youth social care is important, due to the direct effect on client outcomes. This is acknowledged in evidence-based interventions (EBI) when, post-training, continued ...

Social interactions among nonparental adults and parents in the neighbourhood: a mixed-method vignette study

<p>Supportive social interactions between nonparental adults (i.e. social work professionals, volunteers, and other parents that have contact with children but are not the primary caregiver), parents, and ...

Exploring empowerment of participants and peer workers in a self-managed homeless shelter

Summary <br/>Self-managed shelters claim that participants who have been homeless, are better able to run a shelter than regular providers. Little research has investigated self-managed shelters. In this paper ...

Methodical principles and prevention-focused outcomes in professional youth work: A longitudinal analysis

Previous research has suggested that professional youth work settings empower socially vulnerable youngsters, strengthening their personal development and social participation. It is expected that youth work can ...

Fostering supportive structures for families in the neighbourhood

This dissertation focuses on how supportive neighbourhood structures for children and their families can be fostered. Supportive structures can positively influence social support for parents, and have positive ...

Appraisal and coping predict health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

<p>COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on people worldwide. We conducted an international survey (n = 3646) examining the degree to which people's appraisals and coping activities around the pandemic ...

The contribution of professional youth work to the personal development and social participation of socially vulnerable youngsters

This article focuses on how length of participation in professional youth work is associated with five outcome variables: prosocial skills, self-mastery, social network, civic participation (volunteering and ...

Vignettes to measure social interactions among nonparental adults and parents in the neighbourhood: a validation study

In this study the Vignettes Parenting Interactions in the Neighbourhood (V-PIN) was validated. These vignettes can be used to gain insight into and reflect on interactions in the neighbourhood between parents and ...

The dynamics of power in disaster response networks

A major challenge for disaster scholars and policymakers is to understand the power dimension in response networks, particularly relating to collaboration and coordination. We propose a conceptual framework to study ...

Behavioural perspective on car owners’ uptake of shared e-mobility

In the Interreg Smart Shared Green Mobility Hubs project, electric shared mobility is offered through eHUBs in the city. eHUBs are physical places in<br/>neighbourhoods where shared mobility is offered, with ...

Recreational N2O use

Resiliences to radicalization

<p>Building resilience to radicalization has become a key pillar of many policies for preventing violent extremism. However, sustained debates over the precise nature of the terms radicalisation and resilience ...

Collective convening: Organizational and interorganizational-level tensions in joint cross-sector partnership formation

The role of conveners in initiating and/or leading the formation of cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) has received ample attention in the literature on partnership formation. However, what happens when two ...

Collaboration of Youth Social Work Professionals with Volunteers, Parents and Other Professionals

There is an increasing attention for youth social work professionals to collaborate with volunteers, parents, and other professionals. Collaboration can contribute to positive outcomes for youth. The present study ...

Governance of BG roofs

Amsterdam: A City of Strong Government and Active Citizens

Problematic Use of Nitrous Oxide by Young Moroccan–Dutch Adults

The recreational use of nitrous oxide (N2O; laughing gas) has largely expanded in recent years. Although incidental use of nitrous oxide hardly causes any health damage, problematic or heavy use of nitrous oxide can ...

Use of technology to stimulate continuous reflection on treatment integrity in child protection

20 STUDENTS USED A DESIGN APPROACH TO GATHER INSIGHTS AND DATA ON THE PROCESS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Informal social (link) work in the context of diversity

Paper presentation on (the importance of) informal social work, based on research on this theme by the Department of Urban Social Work in the past years in New West Amsterdam and South east Amsterdam.

A safe learning environment for talking about sexuality in child & youth social care

Poster for exploring the possibilities of technology in training and coaching

Impact of professional Youth Work

Developing a new national MDMA policy: Results of a multi-decision multi-criterion decision analysis

Background:<br/>Ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)) has a relatively low harm and low dependence liability but is scheduled on List I of the Dutch Opium Act (‘hard drugs’). Concerns ...

The effect of centralized financial and social incentives on cooperative behavior and its underlying neural mechanisms

<p>Incentives are frequently used by governments and employers to encourage cooperation. Here, we investigated the effect of centralized incentives on cooperation, firstly in a behavioral study and then ...

Designing chatbots for training professionals in child and youth social care

Various subjects in child and youth social care, such as sexuality and sexual violence, are quite sensitive, and professionals may experience a certain reluctance to discuss these subjects with their clients (e.g., ...

The associations between late effects of cancer treatment, work ability and job resources: a systematic review

Objective<br/>The aim of this review is to evaluate associations between possible late effects of cancer treatment (i.e. physical complaints, fatigue, or cognitive complaints) and work ability among workers ...

Innovation in pain rehabilitation using co-design methods during the development of a relapse prevention intervention

<p>Background: Many intervention development projects fail to bridge the gap from basic research to clinical practice. Instead of theory-based approaches to intervention development, co-design prioritizes the ...

Effectief werken aan gedragsverandering

Human Rights education, turning words into action

This article considers how lecturers can use human rights education as a core element of preparing students for professional social work practice. This paper is based on a symposium held at the EASSW conference in ...

Use characteristics and harm potential of ecstasy in The Netherlands

Introduction: Ecstasy (MDMA) is a popular recreational drug, but its illegal production and trade in the Netherlands have developed into a serious public order and ecological problem which endanger and question the ...

Safeguarding Young People in Care

Over the last two decades, there has been increasing political attention on sexual abuse in care. Research has not only shown that sexual abuse in care occurs but also that abuse can be perpetrated by other children ...

Professional youth work as a preventive service: towards an integrated conceptual framework

Knowledge of how professional youth work might prevent individual and social problems in socially vulnerable youngsters is poorly developed. This article presents a conceptual framework that clarifies the implicit ...

Late effects of cancer (treatment) and work ability: guidance by managers and professionals

The prevalence of the group of workers that had a cancer diagnosis in the past is growing. These workers may still be confronted with late effects of cancer (treatment) possibly affecting their work ability. As ...

Humanitarian support in a denial of access context: emergent strategies at the interface of humanitarian and sovereign law

The principles of international humanitarian law (IHL) have evoked considerable debate in the practice of humanitarian support, particularly in terms of emerging tensions with sovereign (national) law. Drawing on ...

Understanding Societal Resilience

<p>Societal resilience is an emerging paradigm. It refers to responses and strategies at the level of individuals, groups, organizations, and societies that are dealing with complex societal problems. At the ...

Individualisation in public health: reflections from life narratives in a disadvantaged neighbourhood

There is a dualism in current policy discourses on public health between neoliberal conceptions of health, and health as a product of social conditions. These conceptions also co-exist in the narratives of citizens. ...

The girls work method: what is the role of empowerment in building girls’ agency?

Girls Work, as one of the methods used by professional youth work, focuses on helping vulnerable girls to shape their own lives (a capacity also referred to as ‘agency’). In this study, it is hypothesised ...

Wastewater management by citizens

<p>Self-organisation in environmental service delivery is increasingly being promoted as an alternative to centralised service delivery. This article argues that self-organised environmental service delivery ...

Action research in the city

The contribution of professional youth work to the development of socially vulnerable youngsters

The central question in this study is how, for whom, and under which conditions professional youth work contributes to the personal development of socially vulnerable youngsters, the reinforcement of their social ...

Richting een minder geïndividualiseerd 'samen'

“Dus de maatregelen waren goed, maar ons gedrag niet?”, vroeg een journaliste tijdens de coronapersconferentie van 13 oktober aan premier Rutte. Veel verder dan ‘we hebben het samen niet goed genoeg ...

Lachgasgebruik bij jongeren met een niet-westerse migratieachtergrond

Het recreatief gebruik van lachgas is populair en het aantal jongeren dat wel eens lachgas gebruikt neemt sinds 2016 toe. In 2019 had 10% van de scholieren (12-16 jaar) ooit lachgas gebruikt. Onder scholieren met een ...

Differences in housing transitions and changes in health and self-determination between formerly homeless individuals

Background<br/>To reduce homelessness, it is important to gain a better understanding of the differences between homeless people who remain in institutions and those who gain and can sustain independent ...

Shaping energy norms in digital communities

Reducing energy consumption in urban households is essential for reaching the necessary climate research and policy targets for CO2 reduction and sustainability. The dominant approach has been to invest in ...

Understanding how engagement in a self-managed shelter contributes to empowerment

Participant empowerment is a foundational goal of selforganised<br/>homeless care. We aim to understand how a selforganised<br/>setting contributes to participants' empowerment.<br/>The data we ...

Work Ability, Burnout Complaints, and Work Engagement Among Employees With Chronic Diseases: Job Resources as Targets for Intervention?

The aim of this study was to investigate the occupational well-being among employees with chronic diseases, and the buffering effect of four job resources, possibly offering targets to enhance occupational well-being.

Kwetsbare Ouderen en Mantelzorgers

Picture your Story – Foundation Bricks

Applying psychological concepts to assist the uptake of eHUBs

In this note, we present ten recommendations to stimulate the uptake of eHUBs based on psychological concepts. These recommendations are translated into specific actions that cities can undertake to promote the ...

Governance protocol Location 1: ‘Bijltjespad’

Unpacking Energy Needs

The Self-Build Experience

Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-builing for low- and middle-income groups in urban ...

Co-creation in urban Living Labs

This paper analyses co-creation in urban living labs through a multi-level network perspective on system innovation. We draw on the case House of Skills, a large, multi-stakeholder living lab aimed at developing a ...

Urban consumption spaces as living labs

Many cities are facing challenges in finding an equilibrium in the use of urban consumption spaces. Urban consumption spaces comprise different sociospatial relationships, bringing together work, consumption, ...

Living labs for the urban commons

This paper describes how an urban commons is established on the Amsterdam market square Plein ’40-’45, to explain how an experimental learning environment can be a living lab for improving collaborative ...

Conclusion

Aging and Physical Activity: A Qualitative Study of Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation in a Blended Home-Based Exercise Program for Older Adults

Physical activity can prolong the ability of older adults to live independently at home. A blended intervention was developed to sustain healthy aging. During a clinical trial 133 participants, with an average age of ...

From efficiency to reduction

This book presents the results of the international research project CODALoop: Community Data Loop for Energy Conscious Lifestyles. It dissects the energy practices that make urban households demanding energy in ...

Cross-Sector Partnerships for Sustainability: How Mission-Driven Conveners Drive Change in National Coffee Platforms

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have deployed various strategies in motivating businesses to source sustainably, such as the co-development and promotion of sustainability certification and direct collaboration in ...

Introduction

The implications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions

Towards Energy Citizenship for a Just and Inclusive Transition: Lessons Learned on Collaborative Approach of Positive Energy Districts from the EU Horizon2020 Smart Cities and Communities Projects

To achieve the “well below 2 degrees” targets, a new ecosystem needs to be defined where citizens become more active, co-managing with relevant stakeholders, the government, and third parties. This means ...

Self-managed programmes in homeless care as (reinvented) institutions

Purpose: Self-managed institutional homeless programmes started as an alternative to regular shelters. Using institutional theory as a lens, we aim to explore the experiences of stakeholders with the institutional ...

Rule-Based Systems for Decision Support and Decision-Making in Dutch Legal Practice. A Brief Overview of Applications and Implications

Rule-based systems for decision support and decision-making play an important role in Dutch legal practice. Government agencies use rule-based systems for (mass) legal decision-making. Legal departments, law firms, ...

Social initiatives around refugees

After the arrival of refugees in the Netherlands, many citizens wanted to act and help the social inclusion of refugees. Community initiatives emerged where some of the initiatives even grew into potential Social ...

Informal caregivers’ judgements on sharing care with home care professionals from an intersectional perspective: the influence of personal and situational characteristics

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Working with Experience Experts in Research

More and more network interventions are developing at neighborhood level, with the aim of strengthening the network (in the neighborhood) of people with a disability. Some interventions are of a temporary nature, ...

The development of agency in professional youth work with girls and young women in the Netherlands

A research design to understand the transformation of students in higher professional education

Students in higher professionals education are prepared for high level professional practice. To be able to fulfill their future roles, their educational programmes provide them interaction with professional ...

To use or not to use: shared mobility for emission-free cities

Cities anticipate a growing need for mobility. However, physical space in a city is limited. Cities are faced with the challenging task of keeping cities accessible and liveable (clean air), making the best possible ...

Extramural healthcare for patients suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome

Patients living at home who suffer from Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) need highly specialistic care from competent healthcare professionals who can bridge the gap between specialistic and generalistic care. Patients ...

Governance Models for Blue-Green Roof Projects

A scarcity mindset alters neural processing underlying consumer decision making

Not having enough of what one needs has long been shown to have detrimental consequences for decision making. Recent work suggests that the experience of insufficient resources can create a “scarcity” ...

Ambiguity as an Opportunity

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how ...

New Dutch Legislation and Preventive Coercive Home Health Care for Excessive Alcohol Consumers

Excessive alcohol consumers are in need for effective and targeted thiamine interventions to prevent the development of Korsakoff’s syndrome. Coercive home health care might be a solution to reach excessive ...

From user insights to evidence-based strategy selection

This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the Behavioural Lenses Toolkit. This toolkit supports designers in using theory from the behavioural sciences to inform their ...

Good practices 2018 schuldhulpverlening Amsterdam

Het lectoraat Armoede Interventies heeft in 2018 een vervolgonderzoek uitgevoerd naar de eerste fase van de schuldhulpverlening in Amsterdam.

Stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration among youth social workers: A scoping review

In recent decades, a considerable amount of literature on interdisciplinary collaboration has been published. Interdisciplinary collaboration plays an important role in matching services to the individual needs of ...

Informal caregivers’ judgements on sharing care with home care professionals from an intersectional perspective: the influence of personal and situational characteristics

Caught in the middle between research and practice

Spontaneous morality development in online affinity spaces for neighborhood commemoration

In our network culture totally different and new spaces have developed. In cyberspace there are new forms of location-based communities. No communities based on membership, ideology or doctrine, but open spaces where ...

Negotiating consent in neighbourhood-based community development work

This chapter discusses the efforts of community workers to obtain consent in local communities as a basis for taking action on issues that are affecting local people’s lives. Crucial here is that community ...

Een online tool voor mensen met risicovolle en problematische schulden

The role of a participatory space in the development of citizenship

De rol van een participatieve ruimte in de ontwikkeling van burgerschap In toenemende mate is in beleid en onderzoek aandacht voor de ontwikkeling van burgerschap, gestimuleerd door de transitie naar een ...

Classic design of curriculum innovations

Collaborative curriculum design in teacher teams: foundations

Human rights at the heart of the social work curriculum

<p>Social work policy and practice all over the world continue to face the impact of the neoliberal agenda. Similarly, social work education has been subject to the economic and political changes, with an ...

The obligation to volunteer as fair reciprocity? Welfare recipients’ perceptions of giving back to society

Dutch citizens on welfare have to volunteer at Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in return for their benefits. Through applying the ‘worlds of justification’ of Boltanski and Thévenot, this ...

Contract Automation: Experiences from Dutch Legal Practice

Organizations in legal practice, under pressure to do “more for less,” are searching for ways to automate legal work, to improve efficiency of legal service delivery. Automated drafting of contracts (or: ...

Collaborative curriculum design for sustainable innovation and teacher learning

The role of social environment in acquiring agency in Girls Work

Girls Work is a method of professional youth work that support girls in vulnerable circumstances to develop agency (Bandura, 2006). In doing this, girls mediate between who they personally want to be and what is ...

Transcending Responsibility. Developing a new interdisciplinary educational program

Aim of the proposal and urban challenge it addresses* (max 200)<br/>The aim of this proposal is to develop an educational program with the provisional name ‘Care and Law’. The aim of this ...

Art in social work practice

Op 31 oktober is het boek ‘Art in social work practice’ verschenen. Een verzameling succesvolle methodes om kunst en cultuur toe te passen in sociaal werk. Sociaalwerkprofessionals uit de hele wereld ...

Effective reflection

Video feedback to enhance fidelity in practice based interventions.

Innovations in child welfare, examples of implementation strategies

Circulair wood for the neighbourhood

Since 2016, the Amsterdam Dapperbuurt in the East of Amsterdam, has its own Zero Waste Lab (ZWL), a collection and recycle centre for separated household waste. Drawing on the specific case of wood as a waste-stream, ...

Safeguarding young people in care - online course

Safeguarding young people in care - website lecturers

Safeguarding young people in care - summerschool

Reflection instrument

Safeguarding young people in care

Over the last decade, many (European) countries have created special committees or conducted special investigations into the occurrence of sexual abuse in residential and/or foster care. Many of these studies ...

Measuring Treatment Integrity: Use of and Experience with Measurements in Child and Youth Care Organizations

<p>Performance feedback and supervision are essential to the adoption of evidence-based interventions with high treatment integrity in child and youth care organizations. Little is known about the use of ...

Informal caregivers’ views on the division of responsibilities between themselves and professionals

This scoping review focuses on the views of informal caregivers regarding the division of care responsibilities between citizens, governments and professionals and the question of to what extent professionals take ...

The effectiveness of critical time intervention for abused women leaving women's shelters: a randomized controlled trial

OBJECTIVES: To examine the effectiveness of critical time intervention (CTI)-an evidence-based intervention-for abused women transitioning from women's shelters to community living. METHODS: A randomized controlled ...

Youth work and prevention

Social street work: An substantiated explanation model of methodic acting

Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research.

Predicting homeless people's perceived health after entering the social relief system in The Netherlands

<p>OBJECTIVES: We explored whether changes in the perceived health of homeless people after entering the social relief system (SRS) in The Netherlands were predicted by housing, income, hours of work, social ...

Effective Reflection

This is a manual on supervision with video recordings and role-play. The manual provides points of reference for reflecting in a team on the implementation of the work and learning from each other by means of video ...

Effective reflection

This is the ‘Developing a reflection tool’ manual. The manual provides points of reference for the development of a reflection tool for interventions and more general approaches in children’s services.

Girls’ work

Girls’ work: (How) does it contribute to the agency of girls in vulnerable circumstances?

Innovation in children's services and child protection

Effective Reflection

This is a manual on ‘Selecting, Training and Supporting Supervisors’. This manual provides points of reference for making a considered choice in the selection, training and support of supervisors in ...

[Review of: M. van Ham [et al.] (edit.) (2017) Entrepreneurial neighbourhoods]

Discussing sexuality in the classroom

Teachers can play an important role in students’ healthy relational and sexual development. You can pay attention to this subject with specifically designed lessons. But it’s even more important to ...

Effective reflection in social work practice

A presentation by Leonieke Boendermaker, Lector Child and Youth Social Care, at the EASWR conference 2018

Older People in a Long-term Regeneration Neighbourhood. An Exploratory Panel Study of Ageing in Place in Hoogvliet, Rotterdam

Ageing of the population in European cities creates fundamental challenges with regard to employment, pensions, health care and other age-related services. Many older people want to live independent lives as long as ...

Safeguarding Young People in Care

Supporting a healthy sexual development of children and young people growing up in residential and foster care.

Measuring program fidelity in case management for high risk families

Abstract Summary: Program fidelity instruments are a key ingredient for clinical supervision and implementation as well as effectiveness studies. This study examines the factor structure of the Functional Family ...

Youth work and prevention: a conceptual framework in the Netherlands

Professional youth workers and their organizations pursue further improvement of quality and transparency in their work.

Changes in Social Exclusion Indicators and Psychological Distress Among Homeless People Over a 2.5-Year Period

<p>Although homelessness is inherently associated with social exclusion, homeless individuals are rarely included in conventional studies on social exclusion. Use of longitudinal survey data from a cohort study ...

Youth work and prevention: a conceptual framework in the Netherlands

Professional youth workers and their organizations pursue further improvement of quality and transparency in their work.

Struggles for success

In Amsterdam and Beirut, Abdallah has ethnographically researched interactional dynamics between disadvantaged young people, regarding experiences of success, in settings of education, work, sports, and music. He ...

Safeguarding young people in care

Heterogeneity in Response during Multisystemic Therapy: Exploring Subgroups and Predictors

Multiple studies have shown that Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is, at group level, an effective treatment for adolescents showing serious externalizing problem behavior.

Poverty and the Developing Brain

Core competencies for safeguarding young people in care

Since October 2015, four European universities of applied sciences and three youth care organisations in Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands and Scotland, have been working as partners to develop education and training for ...

Competencies for supporting a healthy sexual development of young people in care

This report describes the results of the interviews that were held with professionals, policy makers, and researchers (working in the field of sexuality and/or residential and foster care) in three countries in order ...

Personal goals and factors related to QoL in Dutch homeless people

Very little is known about the personal goals of homeless people and how these relate to their quality of life (QoL). By using survey data on 407 homeless adults upon entry to the social relief system in 2011, we ...

Collaborative learning in local partnerships for public value

In our recently started multiple case study - funded by the Netherlands Scientific Board (NWO) - on these processes of collaboration, we focused on the dynamics in growing partnerships between citizens, community ...

Cancer-related cognitive impairment and patients’ ability to work

Cancer-related cognitive impairment and patients’ ability to work

The indispensable perspective of experts by lived experience in social work education and research

This workshop is about sharing how including experts by experience benefits all those who are involved in social work (education) and contributes to change the nature and discourse of social work education and ...

Playfully towards new relations

Dit is de Engelstalige versie van de publicatie 'spelenderwijs naar nieuwe verhoudingen'.

Enhancing citizens’ participation in the community to promote health and wellbeing

Background In 2015, Amsterdam became part of the WHO Age Friendly City community, thereby accepting the responsibility to work towards a more age friendly Amsterdam. To study senior citizens’ needs and wishes ...

Safeguarding young people in care

De 'governmentality' van een lokaal prostitutieveld?

De legalisering van prostitutie 2000 was een poging van de overheid om in te grijpen in de logica van een relatief autonoom opererende prostitutiesector. Door het legaliseren werd de markt voor het verkopen van ...

Dutch homeless people 2.5 years after shelter admission

<p>Housing stability is an important focus in research on homeless people. Although definitions of stable housing differ across studies, the perspective of homeless people themselves is generally not included. ...

Quality of care in the intensive care unit from the perspective of patient's relatives

<p>BACKGROUND: The quality standards of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care require monitoring of the satisfaction of patient's relatives with respect to care. Currently, no suitable instrument is available in ...

Self-reported care needs of Dutch homeless people with and without a suspected intellectual disability

<p>Cognitive impairment is a prevalent problem among the homeless and seems related to more psychosocial problems. However, little is known about the care needs of the subgroup of homeless people with an ...

Differences between paid and unpaid social services for beneficiaries

In many Western welfare states, social work services that have traditionally been provided by paid employees are being replaced by family support, community support, informal networks and volunteering. For the field ...

The SOS-framework (Systems of Sedentary behaviours): an international transdisciplinary consensus framework for the study of determinants, research priorities and policy on sedentary behaviour across the life course

Abstract<br/>Background: Ecological models are currently the most used approaches to classify and conceptualise determinants<br/>of sedentary behaviour, but these approaches are limited in their ability ...

Look to the moon

A legal department’s objective is to support an organization in reaching its objectives, by seizing legal opportunity whenever possible and identifying and mitigating legal risks intelligently. To do this ...

Recurrent tensions in social work history

Keys to the community

Proefschrift van drs. Jeroen Gradener naar de legitimiteit van community development (opbouwwerk). Niet vanzelf krijgen opbouwwerkers een mandaat van bewoners om hen te ondersteunen in het verbeteren van hun eigen ...

Big is beautiful?

Artikel over kleinschalige stedelijke projecten voor een nieuwe eeuw gepubliceerd in EU@Amsterdam, een stedelijke raad. Door Stan Majoor, lector Grootstedelijke Vraagstukken en coördinator van speerpunt ...

Rapportage project Vernieuwing Medezeggenschap

“Schets een visie voor de invulling van medezeggenschap binnen de HvA. Schrijf een veranderplan met de meest waardevolle en kansrijke maatregelen voor korte (binnen komend zittingsjaar) en lange termijn om bij ...

Stimulating quality of service delivery in mantal health care settings for youth. Suggestions for integrating support systems

Attitudes of Older Adults Towards a Blended Exercise Program

Attitudes of Older Adults Towards a Blended Exercise Program

Bridging the implementation gab

Evidence concerning psychosocial interventions for children and young people with externalizing behavior problems has amassed at an impressive pace in recent years. Interventions that have been proven effective are ...

Collective Empowerment through Local Memory Websites: Balancing between group interest and common good

The research in this dissertation explores the social significance of local memory websites. Local memory websites offer local residents a platform where they collect and share memories about particular places or ...

Independence or interdependence?

Heading towards a desirable future

This essay focuses on the aspirations of young people, which we take to be a critical drive to their political and social commitments. As reflected in a wealth of social scientific research on educational and ...

Youth workers engage “radicalized” young Dutch Muslims

Theory in action: on the practicalities and dilemmas of developing a multidisciplinary executive master programme

Democratizing Social Work in the Netherlands

Mapping an Emerging Field: Local Memory Websites

Online platforms for collecting local memories are often claimed to be a driving force of empowerment for individuals, groups and the community as a whole. Long term online participation especially plays a key role ...

The Future of Local Memory Websites as Empowering Niches in Amsterdam

In this article, we explain how we envision the further interconnection of existing initiatives of online local memory collecting into a new social infrastructure, that is beneficial to the whole of Amsterdam. Three ...

Temporal strategy and performance during a fatiguing short-cycle repetitive task

This study investigated temporal changes in movement strategy and performance during fatiguing short-cycle work. Eighteen participants performed six 7-min work blocks with repetitive reaching movements at 0.5 Hz, ...

Multilevel participation within on-line collections of local memories as a practice of cultural citizenship

Collecting local memories on-line is a growing practice with participatory elements on different levels. Three levels of participation – micro, meso and macro – are introduced by describing an exemplary ...