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"Building a Bridge Between Arab Culture and What You Learn at the University": Social Workers with Fathers at Arab Child-Parent Centers in Israel
Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Vol.2 , No. 4, Publication Date: Dec. 4, 2019, Page: 66-73
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Authors
 
[1]    

Romain Jammal-Abboud, School of Social Work, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

[2]    

Edith Blit-Cohen, School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

 
Abstract
 

The article describes the therapeutic encounter of Arab women social workers with fathers at child-parent centers. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 Arab women social workers. The interviewees indicated that the therapeutic encounter was tense, due to cultural and gender issues. This highlights the workers' similarities and differences between their cultural perspectives and those of the fathers. The article sheds light on the complexity of the therapeutic encounter, and indicates that the workers had not been academically prepared for this task. The findings contribute to developing curricula and supervision techniques that will facilitate the workers' job.


Keywords
 

Field Work Training, Culturally Sensitive Social Work, Arab Society in Israel, Society in Transition, Grounded Theory


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