Research Projects Social Work
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The effectiveness of interventions to prevent child maltreatment
Aim and research questions The expertise aims to assess the effectiveness of interventions to prevent the occurrence and chronification of child maltreatment based on empirical evidence. The expertise’s guiding question is: How effective are interventions in preventing the occurrence and chronification of child ...
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Social work in Virtual Reality
Virtual reality technologies allow users to immerse themselves in computer-generated worlds. For social work, this offers new possibilities for practice, teaching, and research. With our study we want to explore the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) for a specific scenario concerning the topic of couple conflicts in ...
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Adoption in forced situations
The history of national and international adoptions in Switzerland has hardly been studied. Adoption is a drastic process for the persons concerned. The child is removed from its family of origin and finds its place anew in the adoptive family. Historically, care and coercion have often gone hand in hand in this ...
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The situation of children with an imprisoned parent in Switzerland
Imprisonment is a great burden not only for the offender, but also for his or her family members. Previous studies on the effects of incarceration on relatives show that relatives are sometimes exposed to considerable economic, social and emotional problems. For children in particular, the loss of a parent can have ...
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The economic situation of widows, widowers and orphans in Switzerland
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Predictive chance modelling: Exploration of a new approach to professional decision-making in child protection
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MEKIDA – media Use of children and adolescents and their effects
Starting point and goal The Corona pandemic boosted digitization, but also revealed its limitations and backwardness. This was especially true of home schooling, which particularly disadvantaged those children and adolescents who were already disadvantaged. Likewise, the Corona pandemic led to an increase in the ...
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Sex Work and Corona
Due to the Corona pandemic, political measures to contain it have been adopted in the canton of Zurich (Switzerland) (period March 2020-current), which have a great influence on the living situation, the living environment and the coping with life of sex workers (e.g. occupational ban). Sex workers are socially and ...
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Machine learning and algorithms in social work
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Needs assessment of shelter places for girls and young women affected by violence
Up to now statistics on girls and young women affected by violence have been lacking in Switzerland. Furthermore, there has been no inventory of emergency and protective shelters and the future need for shelters for this group. This and the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and ...