STEPP: Socialinė Teorija, Empirija, Politika ir Praktika

The article addresses the issue of stress coping of socially vulnerable young people. Coping methods and strategies are analysed regarding the socio-cultural context. A quantitative study was conducted to reveal the coping methods and strategies of socially vulnerable young people aged 18–29 from Northern Lithuania and Southern Latvia. Vulnerable young people in the two Baltic States use different coping strategies and sets of coping strategies which may be related with socio-cultural reasons, different content of the social service package, availability and content of psychological and social support.

Asta Vaitkevičienė

Daiva Alifanovienė

Albina Kepalaitė

Odeta Šapelytė

Darius Gerulaitis

Socialinė teorija empirija politika ir praktika

Comparison of Stress Coping Strategies of Socially Vulnerable Young People in Lithuania and Latvia

立陶宛和拉脱维亚社会弱势青年压力应对策略的比较

As the COVID-19 virus began to spread across Australia, a six-week national lockdown was implemented in late March 2020. Australians were largely confined to their homes and nonessential economic and social activities ceased. Subsequently, lockdowns were implemented at various times in various states, territories and regions in response to local outbreaks of the virus. To examine how the restrictions associated with the pandemic impacted on the working lives of young Australians during the 2020 lockdowns, I draw on Life Patterns project data generated from semistructured interviews conducted with 40 participants in September and October 2020. From a class perspective, the lockdowns exacerbated existing inequalities related to occupation. Some participants, such as those in the hospitality sector, were stood down whereas other participants either worked from home (e.g., professionals and white-collar workers) or continued working as usual after being classified as essential workers (e.g., nurses, doctors, security guards). Participants who were stood down immediately were left to fend for themselves until the Federal Government introduced JobKeeper payments. They had to rely on their annual leave, withdraw money from their retirement savings and/ or move in with family or friends just to survive. Participants who were able to keep working saved money due to being confined to home and not be able to socialise or take holidays. Consequently, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some participants depleted their savings whereas others had built on their existing wealth.

Jenny Chesters

The Restructuring of Social Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia

澳大利亚在COVID-19疫情期间社会不平等的重构

Research suggests that the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially for communication purposes, can have a positive impact on the emotional health and subjective quality of life of older people. However, older people are little willing to engage in online communication. This article analyses the attitudes of older ICT users towards online communication. The study is based on 36 interviews with older ICT users and 9 interviews with people who encouraged them to use technology, conducted in 2022. The results of the study are in line with the theoretical Technology Acceptance Model. It is found that older people have positive attitudes towards online communication when they perceive its benefits. In contrast, public and private online communication are also criticized. Results reveal concerns that the rise of online communication is disrupting face-to-face communication, and that it is addictive and time-consuming. There are expressions of internalized ageism that such communication is more suitable for young people. The study results align with the Media Richness Theory, with older people emphasising the irreplaceability of live communication as the richest form of communication.

Gražina Rapolienė

Goda Marija Steponavičiūtė

Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė

Vyresnių informacinių komunikacinių technologijų naudotojų požiūris į internetinį bendravimą

老年信息通信技术用户对网络交流的看法

This article aims at examining the degree of influence of the professional values with regards to activities related to providing support among social work professionals in Bulgaria. In the survey which was conducted on a voluntary and anonymous basis, 204 social work professionals from the Stara Zagora Region took part. The WIS/SVP method – Scale for assessing professional values was applied. Examined were the influencing factors referring to professional values and provision of social support. Found out were influencing factors between most of the professional values and the desire to provide assistance and readiness for participation in activities related to providing support. The obtained results place professional values as one of the factors determining the trend for providing assistance and participation in support activities in the field of social work in Bulgaria.

Antoniya Sivreva

Krasimira Benkova

Influence of the Professional Values on Providing Social Work Suport

专业价值观对提供社会工作支持的影响

This article explores the attitudes of Japanese and Lithuanian social work program teachers towards the challenges posed by modern technologies that may transform social work profession and studies. Study data revealed that scientists from both countries admit that “taming” technologies and optimally “cooperating” with them is the main challenge of social work practice and studies. On the one hand, belief that technological development will provide more opportunities to fulfil the mission of social work was prevalent among the study participants, on the other hand, they had expressed concern that eventually the use of technology will change the essence of social work as a profession of human relations or will create modified forms of social exclusion. Additionally, a niche for the new role of the social worker was identified: to help the world “occupied” by technology remain “social”. Attitudes of research participants from both Lithuania and Japan can be linked to traditional concept of sociality and vision of social work as profession that belongs exclusively to area of human relations. B. Latour’s asocial sociality concept can be applied for broader look into this situation. This concept states that efforts to trace the contribution of actors of an inhuman nature to what belongs in the human world may be more successful when one ceases to view the world exclusively through human eyes and tries to reveal the inner perspectives of phenomena of a mixed nature.

Laimutė Žalimienė

Juratė Charenkova

Eglė Šumskienė

Donata Petružytė

Miroslavas Seniutis

Violeta Gevorgianienė

Mai Yamaguchi

Modern Technologies and Transformation of Social Work Profession and Education: Insights of Teachers of the Lithuanian and Japanese Higher Education Institutions

现代技术与社会工作职业及教育的转型：立陶宛和日本高等教育机构教师的见解

In the face of external threats, Lithuania's personal social services system must adapt to ensure the continued delivery of services. It must respond to the need to change the content of services, expand the scope of services to include new clients, attract or admit new social service providers, and manage the boundaries between formally provided social services and other individuals and organizations offering assistance. The aim of this article is to define the concepts of 'boundaries' and 'boundary work' in the context of personal social services' resilience to external threats and to investigate how actors from different social spaces—formal (institutionalized) social service providers and non-formal (non-institutionalized) social assistance providers—characterize their interactions with each other and perform 'boundary work'. Research methods include interviews and focus groups. Research participants comprise: 1) formal social service providers (8 focus groups), and 2) informal actors operating in municipalities of different sizes (10 interviews). The study revealed that crises lead to shifts in the boundaries between the activities of different social service providers, increased interactions between actors from different social spaces, the creation of new cooperation networks, emerging opportunities for action, and limitations in their activities. In this phase of challenges and the search for solutions, new social service providers emerge and the contours of new forms of assistance take shape. Reflecting on the experience of crises allows for the construction of future projections for possible recurrent threats.

Rasa Genienė

Eugenijus Dunajevas

Ribų valdymas asmeninių socialinių paslaugų erdvėje: samprata, iššūkiai ir galimybės

个人社会服务领域的风险管理：概念、挑战与机遇

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Comparison of Stress Coping Strategies of Socially Vulnerable Young People in Lithuania and Latvia

The Restructuring of Social Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia

Vyresnių informacinių komunikacinių technologijų naudotojų požiūris į internetinį bendravimą

Influence of the Professional Values on Providing Social Work Suport

Modern Technologies and Transformation of Social Work Profession and Education: Insights of Teachers of the Lithuanian and Japanese Higher Education Institutions

Comparison of Stress Coping Strategies of Socially Vulnerable Young People in Lithuania and Latvia

The Restructuring of Social Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia

Vyresnių informacinių komunikacinių technologijų naudotojų požiūris į internetinį bendravimą

Influence of the Professional Values on Providing Social Work Suport

Ribų valdymas asmeninių socialinių paslaugų erdvėje: samprata, iššūkiai ir galimybės