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Der Beitrag behandelt die Relevanz der Digitalisierung für die Soziale Arbeit auf der Basis aktueller Theoriediskurse. Dabei werden gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen, ökonomische Bestrebungen sowie rezipientenbezogene Wirkungen mit konkreten fachinternen Diskursen (wie z. B. der exzessiven Internet und Onlinespielnutzung) verknüpft. Dadurch wird deutlich, dass die Theorie und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit nicht umhin kann, diese Entwicklungen in Forschung und Lehre aufzugreifen, um den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung konstruktiv zu begegnen.
This study examines the impact of the ongoing war in Gaza on children’s right to education and the role of social work in addressing these challenges. Drawing on a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with educators and social workers in Gaza and the West Bank, alongside document analysis of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional reports, this study highlights the widespread destruction of educational infrastructure, forced displacement, and severe psychosocial distress among both children and professionals. Schools have been repurposed as shelters, repeatedly targeted in attacks, and have thus become unsuitable as safe learning environments. Educational needs extend beyond academic instruction to include trauma-informed interventions, psychosocial support, inclusive facilities, and curricula adapted to post-conflict realities. Social workers, often operating under life-threatening conditions, combine community-based initiatives with advocacy, integrating psychosocial care into emergency education and documenting rights violations. Yet these efforts are hindered by the blockade, limited resources, bombardments, repeated evacuation orders, and insufficient international solidarity, including global social work institutions. The study argues for decolonizing social work practice, centering Palestinian voices, and embedding education protection within humanitarian, legal, and political frameworks. Recommendations for social work include strengthening community-led responses, advocating for structural change to safeguard education as a fundamental right during and after conflict, and rethinking the role of social work as a human rights profession in the Gaza context.
In her editorial, Friedery introduces the European Commission's revision of the safe third country concept and the most significant amendments to the existing system. Kops reflects on migration and what he calls the philosophy of hearkening in a contribution examining the encounter between so-called ‘locals’ and ‘migrants’ or individuals with a migration background through the two intellectual senses of perception: seeing and hearing. Stelljes applies Arlie Hochshild's theory of emotional labour to immigrants' emotional adaptation at work within the context of EU-internal migration. Taking the perspective from Rohingya refugee camps and host communities in Bangladesh, Siraj looks on the dynamics humanitarian responses have on community security. The study of Menth & Madi examines the impact of the ongoing war in Gaza on children’s right to education and the role of social work in addressing these challenges. Finally, the book review of Roßkopf introduces legal literature on German migration law.
Die Bachelorarbeit untersucht, wie Behinderung in der deutschsprachigen Comedybranche dargestellt wird und welche Rolle Identität, gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse sowie normative Vorstellungen in diesem Kontext einnehmen. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, zu analysieren, unter welchen Bedingungen Humor als inklusiv, aufklärend oder diskriminierend wahrgenommen wird, und wie die Comedy zur Sensibilisierung und Förderung von Inklusion beitragen kann. Theoretisch stützt sich diese Arbeit auf unterschiedliche Modelle von Behinderung, Humorstile- und -funktionen, Konzepte wie Punching up und Punching down sowie Ingroup-Outgroup-Humor. Methodisch wurde eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse von drei Comedyprogrammen durchgeführt: „Rollt bei mir …!“ von Tan Caglar sowie „Hype“ und „All You Can Eat“ von Felix Lobrecht. Diese Auswahl ermöglicht den Vergleich von Perspektiven eines Comedians mit Behinderung und eines nicht-behinderten Comedians. Das entwickelte Analyseschema erfasst Kontexte, Darstellungsarten, Humorstrategien, Sprache, Machtverhältnisse und Publikumsreaktionen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen deutliche Unterschiede. Caglar nutzt Humor überwiegend empowernd und inklusiv, während Lobrecht vor allem stereotype und stigmatisierende Darstellungen reproduziert. Ob Humor als inklusiv oder diskriminierend wahrgenommen wird, hängt stark vom Kontext, der Machtposition des Comedians und der Zuschreibung durch das Publikum ab. Abschließend wird betont, dass Comedy sowohl zur Reproduktion ableistischer Stereotype als auch zu deren Auflösung betragen kann, abhängig von Haltung, sprachlicher Gestaltung und Perspektive der Darstellenden. Für die Soziale Arbeit ergibt sich daraus die Notwendigkeit, humoristische Medien kritisch zu reflektieren und diskriminierungsfreie Darstellungen zu fördern.
From a behavioral community perspective, cyclists’ decisions to wear helmets reflect social and cognitive biases rather than purely rational risk assessment. Despite awareness of helmet safety benefits, many cyclists, particularly students, forget helmets due to perceived inconvenience and an underestimation of risk on short trips. In a university-based intervention, we applied a community-driven behavioral prompting technique by distributing stickers featuring the Bavarian Prime Minister wearing a helmet. This simple cue led to a temporary two- to threefold increase in helmet use. However, the effect diminished over time, highlighting the limitations of this student-driven intervention. Future research should explore sustained behavioral change strategies, integrating repeated or varied prompts to reinforce long-term impact within student communities.
The latest crime statistics from Germany show that nearly 21% of police reports of intimate partner violence (IPV) were made by men. There were a total of 34,899 male victims, which means that almost 100 men are victims of IPV every day in Germany. The results of an anonymous mixed-method online survey of 141 German men who experience (or had experienced) IPV in their relationships to women are reported. The results support the fact that men can experience multiple violence in relationships by their partners, most pronounced by psychological violence (e.g. insults), followed by physical violence (e.g. blows) and to a smaller amount by sexual violence (e.g. forced to intercourse). Triggers were everyday situations like dispute or stress. Battered men show inhibiting feelings and thoughts, which prevent them to out their violent experiences. Among these are the beliefs that counseling centers and the police could not help them and that they couldn’t win in court. Instead, they prefer to react with distancing and escaping or trying to tolerate and accept their traumatic experiences. If they confide in others, with the exception of friends, all persons showed more rejecting than supporting reactions. For aid organizations like social work, a number of participants indicated that such counseling offers for men in Germany “do not exist” or “are not known”. Implications for social work practice, education and research are discussed and suggestions are offered to improve the situation.
The prevalence of dementia is increasing with the ever-growing population of older adults. Non-pharmacological, music-based interventions, including sensory stimulation, were reported by the Lancet Commission in 2020 to be the first-choice approach for managing the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Low frequency sinusoidal vibration interventions, related to music interventions through their core characteristics, may offer relief for these symptoms. Despite increasing attention on the effectiveness of auditory music interventions and music therapy for managing dementia, this has not included low frequency vibration. This scoping review, following the JBI methodology guidelines, was conducted to investigate participants’ responses to both sound and mechanical vibration, the characteristics of the delivered interventions, methodological challenges, and the specifics of the research experiments reported. An extensive search was conducted in BMC, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EMBASE, ERIC, MEDLINE (OvidSP), Pedro, ProQuest Central, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science. Current Controlled Trials, Clinical Trials, and Google Scholar were also searched as well as a hand search in relevant journals. Studies on adults with all types of dementia, investigating tactile low frequency sound or mechanical vibration in any context were considered. Data from eight full-length studies (three RCTs, two quasi-experimental, two case reports, and one qualitative) were extracted using the data extraction table developed by the authors and were included in the analysis and critical appraisal. Issues in quality related to, for example, control groups and blinding. Few studies addressed participants’ subjective responses to the interventions. Reporting on the intervention characteristics was unclear. It appeared more frequent sessions led to better outcomes and home-based interventions potentially addressing the issue of access and feasibility. Future research should include neuroimaging to measure and confirm the hypothesised mechanism of cerebral coherence. Standardised reporting of intervention characteristics is also needed to ensure replicability of the experiments. Higher quality research is needed to investigate the impact and effect of low frequency vibration for the symptoms of dementia and compare outcomes in meta-syntheses.
Background: The number of people living with dementia (PwD) worldwide is expected to double every 20 years. Many continue living at home, receiving support from family caregivers who may experience significant stress, simultaneously to that of the PwD. Meaningful and effective home-based interventions to support PwD and their caregivers are needed. The development of a theory- and practice-driven online home-based music intervention (MI) is delivered by credentialed music therapists, nested within the HOMESIDE RCT trial.
Methods: Dyads including the PwD and their family carer are randomised to MI, reading (RI) or standard care (SC). MI aims to support health wellbeing and quality of life by training caregivers to intentionally use music (singing, instrument playing, movement/dancing, and music listening) with their family member (PwD) in daily routines. MI is underpinned by cognitive, relational, social, and psychological theories of mechanisms of change.
Results: Preliminary sub-cohort results analyses show MI can be delivered and is accepted well by participants and music-therapist interventionists across five countries.
Conclusions: The specialist skills of a music therapist through MI enable carers to access music when music therapists are not present, to meet carer and PwD needs. Music therapists embrace this changing professional role, observing therapeutic change for members of the dyads.
Aim: The aim of this systematic review is to identify factors that influence relationship quality in couples living with dementia. Previous research has shown how maintaining a positive spousal relationship quality is important for quality of life and coping for both the caregiver and the person with dementia. Knowledge of influential factors could contribute to a deeper understanding of the value of a couple-centred clinical practice and research, within the field of dementia. Research design and methods Systematic procedures to database search, screening, data extraction and synthesis were followed. Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies were included. A narrative synthesis was conducted through narrative summaries of included studies, thematic analysis and narrative descriptions of factors influencing relationship quality.
Results: 39 studies were included in the study: 28 qualitative, 8 quantitative and 3 mixed methods. Through the narrative synthesis, 20 factors were identified. The factors were grouped into two overarching themes: The world of us and The world outside of us, and further to six influencing factor categories: (1) Attitudes and strategies, (2) Behaviour and activities, (3) Emotional connectedness, (4) Activities and experiences outside of the home, (5) Social behaviour and roles, and (6) Belonging and safety.
Discussion and conclusion: The identified factors influence relationship quality in couples living with dementia on various levels. The findings of this review study should inform clinical, couple-centred dementia care practise and intervention studies, and further research should seek to gain deeper understandings of the individual factors and broader understandings of the correlations between factors.
Abstract
Background
Most people with dementia live in the community, not in residential care. Therefore, quality informal care for them is critical for managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Music therapy has been shown to reduce BPSD. However, no randomised controlled trial has examined the effects of music interventions delivered by caregivers in home settings. The HOME-based caregiver-delivered music intervention for people living with dementia (HOMESIDE) trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a 12-week music intervention in addition to standard care for BPSD. This article describes the statistical analysis plan.
Methods and analysis
HOMESIDE is a large, pragmatic international three-arm parallel-group randomised controlled trial. Dyads (persons with dementia and caregiver) in Australia, Germany, the UK, Poland and Norway were randomised to receive music and standard care, reading and standard care or standard care alone. The primary outcome is BPSD (proxy) of the person living with dementia, measured using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Questionnaire (NPI-Q) at 90 and 180 days post-randomisation. Longitudinal analysis will compare NPI-Q severity between music and standard care versus standard care alone. Secondary outcomes include quality of life and depression (both person with dementia and caregiver), cognition (person with dementia only), distress, resilience, competence and caregiver-patient relationship (caregiver only). Treatment effects will be obtained at 90 and 180 days post-randomisation, where applicable. Safety outcomes (adverse events, hospitalisations, deaths) will be summarised.
Discussion
This statistical analysis plan provides a detailed methodology for the analysis of HOMESIDE and will improve the validity of the study and reduce the potential for bias.
Trial registration
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12618001799246. Registered on November 05, 2018. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03907748. Registered on April 09, 2019.
The behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) can be challenging for family caregivers to cope with, leading to distress and fatigue. It is therefore important to offer effective strategies to reduce the impact of BPSD. The HOMESIDE randomized controlled trial (RCT) was testing purposefully developed interventions to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of dyads of people with dementia and family caregivers as a result of reduction of BPSD. HOMESIDE RCT was conducted in Australia, Germany, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom between 2019 and 2022. The study design was a three-arm parallel-group single-blinded, pragmatic RCT with a sample size of 432 dyads. Dyads were randomly allocated to one of three treatment conditions: Music Intervention plus Standard Care; or Reading Intervention plus Standard Care; or Standard Care only. The Reading Intervention (RI) within the HOMESIDE RCT aimed to evoke shared discussion, reminiscence, meaningful shared experiences and consequently enrich everyday life, interaction and the emotional connection between the caregiver (CG) and carereceiver (CR); as well as to enhance activities of daily living and to promote relaxation or stimulation as appropriate. This paper describes the underlying conceptual framework, the content, and delivery of the Reading Intervention within the HOMESIDE RCT.
Background
This study was initiated and co-designed by a Participant and Public Involvement (PPI) group attached to HOMESIDE, a randomized controlled trial that investigated music and reading interventions for people living with dementia and their family caregivers across five countries: Australia, Germany, Norway, Poland, and the UK. The aim was to capture experiences of PPI across the five countries, explore the benefits and challenges of PPI in dementia research, and identify contributions made to the study.
Methods
We surveyed PPI members and academic researchers who collaborated on the HOMESIDE study. The survey was co-designed through consultation with PPI members and academics, alongside a small scoping literature review. Survey questions covered four topics: (1) expectations for PPI, (2) perceived contributions of PPI to the research study, (3) benefits and challenges of PPI, and (4) recommendations for future PPI in dementia research.
Results
There were 23 responses, representing 50% of the PPI members (n = 16) and 29% of academics (n = 7). PPI was found to be beneficial to the research and individuals involved. Contributions to the research included supporting recruitment and publicity, advising on the design of participant-facing materials, guiding the design and delivery of the interventions, and identifying cultural differences affecting research delivery. PPI members benefited from building connections, sharing experiences and receiving support, learning about dementia and research, and gaining new unexpected experiences. Academics learned about the realities of living with dementia, which they felt informed and grounded their work. Several challenges were identified, including the need for clear expectations and objectives, inconsistency of PPI members across research stages, limitations of meeting online versus in-person, scheduling difficulties, and language barriers.
Conclusions
This study identifies important considerations for implementing PPI within dementia studies and international healthcare research more broadly. Our findings guided the development of five recommendations: (1) involve PPI members as early as possible and throughout the research process; (2) create a space for constructive criticism and feedback; (3) have clear tasks, roles, and expectations for PPI members; (4) involve PPI members with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds; and (5) embed infrastructure and planning to support PPI.