e-Social work and digital society: re-conceptualizing approaches, practices and technologies

Lopez Pelaez, Angel ; Marcuello-Servos, Chaime (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Introduction
The digitalisation of society is changing our behaviour, our institutions and the helping professions, among them social work. Adapting to this new environment is one of the main challenges facing social work as both a scientific discipline and a helping profession. This new technological environment is not only impacting on teaching methods in higher education, but also diagnostic and social intervention techniques. At the same time, processes of social exclusion are taking place in the digital domain that require social workers to become more specialised. In introducing this themed issue of the journal, we examine how social work can benefit from e-social work to adapt to the new demands and needs of today's digital society...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2018.1520475

Año: 2018

Publicado en: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK 21, 6 (2018), 801-803
ISSN: 1369-1457

Factor impacto JCR: 0.667 (2018)

Categ. JCR: SOCIAL WORK rank: 36 / 43 = 0.837 (2018) - Q4 - T3

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.496 - Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Sociology and Political Science (Q2) - Social Work (Q2)

Tipo y forma: (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Trabajo Social y Serv.Soc (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)