<ns7:p>Anxiety can arise due to various causes. Uncertainty and failure to anticipate any t... more <ns7:p>Anxiety can arise due to various causes. Uncertainty and failure to anticipate any tragedy can induce fear differently among people. Flood tragedy may draw worries among those who had experienced it before. Anxiety is related with coping strategies to deal with it. One of the coping strategies is religious practice. This study is aimed to identify the level of religiosity and to explore the signs of anxiety among flood victims in Kubang Pasu district, Kedah. To meet the objectives, a total of 113 residents in Kubang Pasu, Kedah were purposively selected as respondents. The study found the religiosity level of most respondents is high. The study also found that flood victims show several signs of anxiety such as inability to relax, afraid of bad things happening, rapid heart rate, feeling not strong, fear, anxiety, worried and fear of death. They use religious practices such as reciting prayer, performing solat or reading the Qur'an to face the flood. In conclusion, Islamic practices can be used by victims when coping with any disasters, especially floods. </ns7:p>
<ns7:p>Obesity is a health problem that threatens all aspects of human life. While rising r... more <ns7:p>Obesity is a health problem that threatens all aspects of human life. While rising rates of obesity involving adolescents do not show such a drastic increase, this problem should not be underestimated. In addition to grappling with the issue of adolescent development, adolescent obesity is also facing with the problem of physical health, social and psychological caused by obesity. If the issue is not addressed with appropriate intervention, obese adolescent will have the quality of life and well-being of poor and disrupt their functioning in society. Therefore, this paper will try to discuss about the health effects of psychological and social (psychosocial) experienced by obese adolescents based on the literature review and proposed interventions that can be used to help them. </ns7:p>
Social work as a profession may have been well established in many countries; nevertheless intern... more Social work as a profession may have been well established in many countries; nevertheless internationally its professional status and professionalization process differs from country to country. Social work in Malaysia has come to a new chapter when the government endorsed a proposal to enact a Social Workers Bill as part of its commitment to enhance the quality of social workers and social work practice in the country. One significant aspect of the draft bill is the registration and licensing of social workers. Drawing examples from a few countries that have registration requirement, this paper attempts to highlight some issues and challenges that may arise when the registration and licensing begin after the bill has been enacted. The legislation can provide a legal framework to put in place proper structures for social work education and development. It however requires all stakeholders to work closely to ensure that eventually the vulnerable populations that the profession is se...
Perkhidmatan kebajikan di Tanah Melayu pada zaman sebelum perang lebih menjurus kepada peranan ut... more Perkhidmatan kebajikan di Tanah Melayu pada zaman sebelum perang lebih menjurus kepada peranan utama yang dimainkan oleh orang perseorangan dan badan-badan sukarela. Sejurus kedatangan buruh Cina dan India ke Tanah Melayu kerajaan telah menubuhkan Jabatan Perlindungan Cina (1877) dan Jabatan Buruh (1911) yang memberi perhatian khusus kepada golongan berkepentingan ini. Hanya selepas zaman pendudukan Jepun yang mengakibatkan masalah kekurangan makanan, kebuluran, perpecahan keluarga dan sebagainya, kerajaan mula memberi perhatian kepada hal-ha1 kebajikan sosial masyarakat secara keseluruhannya. Justeru, tugas menjaga kebajikan masyarakat tanpa mengira kaum telah diambil oleh pihak kerajaan dengan tertubuhnya Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Malaya pada tahun 1946.
Usahawan sosial ialah individu yang bergiat aktif dalam aspek keusahawanan sosial.Sebagai seorang... more Usahawan sosial ialah individu yang bergiat aktif dalam aspek keusahawanan sosial.Sebagai seorang usahawan sosial, mereka bertanggungjawab secara sosialnya mencari idea baru dan pendekatan yang sesuai bagi menjana kemajuan ekonomi untuk dimanfaatkan oleh semua golongan dalam masyarakat. Oleh itu tujuan makalah ini ialah untuk menganalisis penyertaan pengamal kerja perkhidmatan sosial wanita NGO Islam dalam keusahawanan sosial dengan tumpuan khusus ke atas tahap kepuasan dan masalah yang mereka hadapi dalam penyertaan tersebut.Data untuk makalah ini asalnya diambil daripada satu penyelidikan yang dilakukan untuk menganalisis penyertaan pengamal kerja perkhidmatan sosial pertubuhan sukarela Islam dalam keusahawanan sosial di Utara Malaysia. Untuk mencapai hasrat ini sejumlah 41 orang wanita Islam pengamal kerja perkhidmatan sosial telah ditemubual.Mereka ini dipilih daripada pelbagai pertubuhan sukarela Islam yang terdapat di negeri Kedah dan Perlis, Malaysia.Data dikumpulkan melalui ...
Pemilihan jodoh merupakan peringkat asas yang paling penting di dalam menentukan nasib sesebuah r... more Pemilihan jodoh merupakan peringkat asas yang paling penting di dalam menentukan nasib sesebuah rumahtangga sama ada bahagia atau sebaliknya. Berlandaskan kepada kepentingan inilah maka kajian ini dijalankan dengan tujuan untuk mengenalpasti faktor-faktor yang diutamakan oleh para pelajar dalam memilih pasangan hidup mereka. Seramai 114 responden yang terdiri daripada pelajar-pelajar Universiti Utara Malaysia telah dipilih sebagai sampel kajian. Berdasarkan kepada keputusan kajian mendapati bahawa aspek agama adalah yang paling mendapat keutamaan diikuti oleh faktor-faktor pekerjaan yang tetap dan stabil, keturunan, sebangsa, hubungan kekeluargaan, berpendidikan setaraf, kecantikan,berasal dari negeri yang sama dan kekayaan. Di samping itu, kajian ini juga turut mengenalpasti kaitan faktor-faktor demografi dengan faktor-faktor pemilihan jodoh.
Kehidupan seharian memerlukan komunikasi untuk menyampaikan mesej, nasihat atau pesanan kepada in... more Kehidupan seharian memerlukan komunikasi untuk menyampaikan mesej, nasihat atau pesanan kepada individu yang lain.Komunikasi juga menjadi faktor utama menentukan pelbagai jenis perhubungan yang akan dilakukan dengan orang lain.Kerja sosial ialah satu bidang yang memerlukan interaksi dan komunikasi yang berkesan dalam menyelesaikan sesuatu kes atau tugasan.Kemahiran komunikasi sangat diperlukan dalam bidang ini kerana komunikasi merupakan medium yang penting untuk berinteraksi.Pekerja sosial yang baik perlu peka dengan permasalahan klien dengan mendengar penuh teliti atau menyelami masalah klien agar mesej dan simbol yang diberikan oleh klien diterima dengan jelas untuk membantu dalam proses penyelesaian masalah. Buku ini antara lain membincangkan konsep, elemen dan model komunikasi dalam proses memberi bantuan.Huraian juga diberikan kepada tiga jenis komunikasi iaitu komunikasi intrapersonal, komunikasi interpersonal dan komunikasi kelompok.Aspek lain yang turut disentuh berkaitan k...
International Review of Management and Marketing, 2016
Social welfare policy and services has not received attention from scholars it deserves. Scholars... more Social welfare policy and services has not received attention from scholars it deserves. Scholars intent on learning about early child welfare policy in Malaysia would be confronting challenging difficulties to obtain appropriate documented sources, since reference are readily available. This paper discusses the essential welfare services provided by the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) during the period of 1946-1957 under the British Colonial Government. As the major agency authorised to provide child care and protection in Malaya, the DSW had to deal with, among others, post-war social issues that needed immediate attention. It focused on issues during the post-war period that triggered the government’s desire to provide services to ensure the well-being of children. The paper also explains the DSW programmes designed to meet the children’s needs. It highlights the involvement of voluntary associations and other governmental departments towards the well-being of children. Also, ...
Silpakorn University Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, 2017
Kratomthat known as Ketum or Biak are plants found in abundance in the northern states of the Pen... more Kratomthat known as Ketum or Biak are plants found in abundance in the northern states of the Peninsular Malaysia especially in Kedah. Government has gazetted Kratom into the Poisons Act 1952 in 2003 due to the abuse of Kratom. Yet, the Act appears to be insubstantial. Consequently, the government declare the kratom stakeholders of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952. This article reveals the light kratom stakeholders the mean of the reasonableness of the government's move. A total of twenty respondents were interviewed and a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was implemented. The results of the interviews and group discussions showed that the majority appears toagree that government should not implement the law on Kratomas traditional herbal medicinein energy recuperating, remedy for diseases like diabetes, hypertension and hemorrhoids.Utilizing the Law Model, the findings show that majority are disagreed with the government's act to ban kratom in Malaysia. Hence, implementation of the ...
Pendidikan Islam di Malaysia terbahagi kepada beberapa peringkat perkembangan iaitu bermula denga... more Pendidikan Islam di Malaysia terbahagi kepada beberapa peringkat perkembangan iaitu bermula dengan pengajian di rumah, surau, masjid dan diikuti dengan pondok, madrasah dan sistem sekolah agama yang lebih formal. Sebagai sebuah institusi pendidikan Islam yang tertua dan diwarisi semenjak dari zaman Rasulullah (saw) lagi, institusi pondok adalah sangat penting dalam menyampaikan ajaran Islam. Institusi ini mempunyai keistimewaan tersendiri dan dikatakan paling tinggi kedudukannya serta mempunyai pengaruh yang sangat besar di kalangan masyarakat Melayu. Peluang untuk menuntut ilmu menjadi lebih terbuka kepada seluruh anggota masyarakat dengan adanya institusi pondok. Apa yang menarik menarik mengenai institusi pondok ini sebagai pusat pengajian islam ialah kebanyakan penghuninya adalah terdiri daripada mereka yang datang ke situ dengan kerelaan hati sendiri untuk tujuan menuntut ilmu dan inilah yang membezakan dengan sistem pendidikan formal.
This article discusses the conceptualization of soft skills which current higher institutions’ ed... more This article discusses the conceptualization of soft skills which current higher institutions’ educators of professional programmes should contemplate. Social work educators were probed to describe their experiences within their profession, and viewpoints on, soft skills as part of the professional socialization of social workers toward becoming professionally and socially competent when providing their services to their clients. In-depth interviews were used as means of gathering qualitative data. The transcribed data was then thematically analysed. This paper highlights the opinions of two social work educators, from two public universities, on the issue of soft skills among social workers. The social work educators insinuated that it is important to raise awareness of soft skills competencies among social work educators to help them in assessing themselves, and identify where and how they could actively seek to improve themselves as trainers or teachers of social workers to function effectively within the context of their workplaces. Embedding the soft skills competencies into their career as social workers is assumed as one of the effective and effcient method of achieving both professional and social competence. The proposed soft skills provided early ideas and initiatives which can serve as guideline when facilitating and guiding future qualifed social workers.
The literature and research in social work and social welfare domain is expanding rapidly in most... more The literature and research in social work and social welfare domain is expanding rapidly in most advanced nations. However, seemingly this scenario is not reflected in Malaysia.Scholars intent on learning about history and the development of social work would be confronting challenging difficulties to locate and obtain appropriate documented sources, since reference are not readily available.Though there are contributions to the literature that suggest social welfare in Malaysia was originally moulded by British colonial policy, to date there is no research that has been undertaken to explain or ascertain this proposition.Thus, the method used in the study is considered ‘unusual’ because during the decolonization period, most studies emphasized on the economic and political aspects of British colonialism.Working on the ground of developing the knowledge base of social work and social policy, at least in the context of Malaysia, it is the researcher’s intention to explore this area ...
This chapter examines the challenges faced by social work academia and profession in Malaysia. So... more This chapter examines the challenges faced by social work academia and profession in Malaysia. Social work was seen fit to produce the human resource that addresses social ills and lead to the creation of a caring society. As a developing nation, Malaysia is becoming more aware of the need to train professional social workers in order to enhance its citizens’ quality of life. In responding to this need, the social workers in Malaysia often face many challenges on how to apply their social work knowledge, skills, and values particularly when they have to intervene with their clients. Even though social work profession in Malaysia is developing positively, nevertheless there is no guideline of specific criteria being established for selection of social work undergraduates into Higher Education Institutions.
Buku ini memuatkan himpunan kertas kerja yang dibentangkan dalam Simposium Pembangunan Komuniti M... more Buku ini memuatkan himpunan kertas kerja yang dibentangkan dalam Simposium Pembangunan Komuniti Marginal yang telah diadakan pada 12-14 September 2006.Simposium ini dianjurkan oleh Jabatan Kerja Sosial, Fakulti Pembangunan Sosial dan Manusia, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) dengan kerjasama Yayasan Kebajikan Negara Malaysia (YKNM).Topik-topik yang dibincangkan di dalam buku ini dibahagikan kepada empat subtema yang merangkumi pengurusan komuniti marginal, perundangan, isu-isu kesihatan/kesihatan mental dan juga pendidikan dan latihan komuniti marginal.Adanya kupasan yang menyeluruh dan berdasarkan maklumat penyelidikan terkini mengenai isu serta permasalahan berkaitan komuniti marginal menjadikan buku ini amat sesuai untuk dijadikan rujukan meliputi golongan pelajar, penyelidik, pengamal kerja sosial dan pembuat dasar dalam pelbagai sektor perkhidmatan umumnya dan dalam bidang kerja sosial khususnya.
The use of proper and appropriate technology can help graduate students’ in developmental and con... more The use of proper and appropriate technology can help graduate students’ in developmental and constructive writing. The editing and refining processes involved in the writing can either be carried out individually or in small groups. These processes are helpful for novice education researchers to work on and build their research proposals. Their ability to organize information based on their reading of articles, as well as organizing the identified information systematically, is essential for writing a research proposal.A study was conducted to look at the thinking of graduate students on the use of a learning template that was developed by the researchers and used in the Research Methodology classes. This template, called the Organizing Article Review Template (OART), contains elements or focus to organize students' thinking and writing when they are reading research articles. A total of 34Master students, four Research Methodology course instructors, and 16 Master students’ Pr...
<ns7:p>Anxiety can arise due to various causes. Uncertainty and failure to anticipate any t... more <ns7:p>Anxiety can arise due to various causes. Uncertainty and failure to anticipate any tragedy can induce fear differently among people. Flood tragedy may draw worries among those who had experienced it before. Anxiety is related with coping strategies to deal with it. One of the coping strategies is religious practice. This study is aimed to identify the level of religiosity and to explore the signs of anxiety among flood victims in Kubang Pasu district, Kedah. To meet the objectives, a total of 113 residents in Kubang Pasu, Kedah were purposively selected as respondents. The study found the religiosity level of most respondents is high. The study also found that flood victims show several signs of anxiety such as inability to relax, afraid of bad things happening, rapid heart rate, feeling not strong, fear, anxiety, worried and fear of death. They use religious practices such as reciting prayer, performing solat or reading the Qur'an to face the flood. In conclusion, Islamic practices can be used by victims when coping with any disasters, especially floods. </ns7:p>
<ns7:p>Obesity is a health problem that threatens all aspects of human life. While rising r... more <ns7:p>Obesity is a health problem that threatens all aspects of human life. While rising rates of obesity involving adolescents do not show such a drastic increase, this problem should not be underestimated. In addition to grappling with the issue of adolescent development, adolescent obesity is also facing with the problem of physical health, social and psychological caused by obesity. If the issue is not addressed with appropriate intervention, obese adolescent will have the quality of life and well-being of poor and disrupt their functioning in society. Therefore, this paper will try to discuss about the health effects of psychological and social (psychosocial) experienced by obese adolescents based on the literature review and proposed interventions that can be used to help them. </ns7:p>
Social work as a profession may have been well established in many countries; nevertheless intern... more Social work as a profession may have been well established in many countries; nevertheless internationally its professional status and professionalization process differs from country to country. Social work in Malaysia has come to a new chapter when the government endorsed a proposal to enact a Social Workers Bill as part of its commitment to enhance the quality of social workers and social work practice in the country. One significant aspect of the draft bill is the registration and licensing of social workers. Drawing examples from a few countries that have registration requirement, this paper attempts to highlight some issues and challenges that may arise when the registration and licensing begin after the bill has been enacted. The legislation can provide a legal framework to put in place proper structures for social work education and development. It however requires all stakeholders to work closely to ensure that eventually the vulnerable populations that the profession is se...
Perkhidmatan kebajikan di Tanah Melayu pada zaman sebelum perang lebih menjurus kepada peranan ut... more Perkhidmatan kebajikan di Tanah Melayu pada zaman sebelum perang lebih menjurus kepada peranan utama yang dimainkan oleh orang perseorangan dan badan-badan sukarela. Sejurus kedatangan buruh Cina dan India ke Tanah Melayu kerajaan telah menubuhkan Jabatan Perlindungan Cina (1877) dan Jabatan Buruh (1911) yang memberi perhatian khusus kepada golongan berkepentingan ini. Hanya selepas zaman pendudukan Jepun yang mengakibatkan masalah kekurangan makanan, kebuluran, perpecahan keluarga dan sebagainya, kerajaan mula memberi perhatian kepada hal-ha1 kebajikan sosial masyarakat secara keseluruhannya. Justeru, tugas menjaga kebajikan masyarakat tanpa mengira kaum telah diambil oleh pihak kerajaan dengan tertubuhnya Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Malaya pada tahun 1946.
Usahawan sosial ialah individu yang bergiat aktif dalam aspek keusahawanan sosial.Sebagai seorang... more Usahawan sosial ialah individu yang bergiat aktif dalam aspek keusahawanan sosial.Sebagai seorang usahawan sosial, mereka bertanggungjawab secara sosialnya mencari idea baru dan pendekatan yang sesuai bagi menjana kemajuan ekonomi untuk dimanfaatkan oleh semua golongan dalam masyarakat. Oleh itu tujuan makalah ini ialah untuk menganalisis penyertaan pengamal kerja perkhidmatan sosial wanita NGO Islam dalam keusahawanan sosial dengan tumpuan khusus ke atas tahap kepuasan dan masalah yang mereka hadapi dalam penyertaan tersebut.Data untuk makalah ini asalnya diambil daripada satu penyelidikan yang dilakukan untuk menganalisis penyertaan pengamal kerja perkhidmatan sosial pertubuhan sukarela Islam dalam keusahawanan sosial di Utara Malaysia. Untuk mencapai hasrat ini sejumlah 41 orang wanita Islam pengamal kerja perkhidmatan sosial telah ditemubual.Mereka ini dipilih daripada pelbagai pertubuhan sukarela Islam yang terdapat di negeri Kedah dan Perlis, Malaysia.Data dikumpulkan melalui ...
Pemilihan jodoh merupakan peringkat asas yang paling penting di dalam menentukan nasib sesebuah r... more Pemilihan jodoh merupakan peringkat asas yang paling penting di dalam menentukan nasib sesebuah rumahtangga sama ada bahagia atau sebaliknya. Berlandaskan kepada kepentingan inilah maka kajian ini dijalankan dengan tujuan untuk mengenalpasti faktor-faktor yang diutamakan oleh para pelajar dalam memilih pasangan hidup mereka. Seramai 114 responden yang terdiri daripada pelajar-pelajar Universiti Utara Malaysia telah dipilih sebagai sampel kajian. Berdasarkan kepada keputusan kajian mendapati bahawa aspek agama adalah yang paling mendapat keutamaan diikuti oleh faktor-faktor pekerjaan yang tetap dan stabil, keturunan, sebangsa, hubungan kekeluargaan, berpendidikan setaraf, kecantikan,berasal dari negeri yang sama dan kekayaan. Di samping itu, kajian ini juga turut mengenalpasti kaitan faktor-faktor demografi dengan faktor-faktor pemilihan jodoh.
Kehidupan seharian memerlukan komunikasi untuk menyampaikan mesej, nasihat atau pesanan kepada in... more Kehidupan seharian memerlukan komunikasi untuk menyampaikan mesej, nasihat atau pesanan kepada individu yang lain.Komunikasi juga menjadi faktor utama menentukan pelbagai jenis perhubungan yang akan dilakukan dengan orang lain.Kerja sosial ialah satu bidang yang memerlukan interaksi dan komunikasi yang berkesan dalam menyelesaikan sesuatu kes atau tugasan.Kemahiran komunikasi sangat diperlukan dalam bidang ini kerana komunikasi merupakan medium yang penting untuk berinteraksi.Pekerja sosial yang baik perlu peka dengan permasalahan klien dengan mendengar penuh teliti atau menyelami masalah klien agar mesej dan simbol yang diberikan oleh klien diterima dengan jelas untuk membantu dalam proses penyelesaian masalah. Buku ini antara lain membincangkan konsep, elemen dan model komunikasi dalam proses memberi bantuan.Huraian juga diberikan kepada tiga jenis komunikasi iaitu komunikasi intrapersonal, komunikasi interpersonal dan komunikasi kelompok.Aspek lain yang turut disentuh berkaitan k...
International Review of Management and Marketing, 2016
Social welfare policy and services has not received attention from scholars it deserves. Scholars... more Social welfare policy and services has not received attention from scholars it deserves. Scholars intent on learning about early child welfare policy in Malaysia would be confronting challenging difficulties to obtain appropriate documented sources, since reference are readily available. This paper discusses the essential welfare services provided by the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) during the period of 1946-1957 under the British Colonial Government. As the major agency authorised to provide child care and protection in Malaya, the DSW had to deal with, among others, post-war social issues that needed immediate attention. It focused on issues during the post-war period that triggered the government’s desire to provide services to ensure the well-being of children. The paper also explains the DSW programmes designed to meet the children’s needs. It highlights the involvement of voluntary associations and other governmental departments towards the well-being of children. Also, ...
Silpakorn University Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, 2017
Kratomthat known as Ketum or Biak are plants found in abundance in the northern states of the Pen... more Kratomthat known as Ketum or Biak are plants found in abundance in the northern states of the Peninsular Malaysia especially in Kedah. Government has gazetted Kratom into the Poisons Act 1952 in 2003 due to the abuse of Kratom. Yet, the Act appears to be insubstantial. Consequently, the government declare the kratom stakeholders of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952. This article reveals the light kratom stakeholders the mean of the reasonableness of the government's move. A total of twenty respondents were interviewed and a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was implemented. The results of the interviews and group discussions showed that the majority appears toagree that government should not implement the law on Kratomas traditional herbal medicinein energy recuperating, remedy for diseases like diabetes, hypertension and hemorrhoids.Utilizing the Law Model, the findings show that majority are disagreed with the government's act to ban kratom in Malaysia. Hence, implementation of the ...
Pendidikan Islam di Malaysia terbahagi kepada beberapa peringkat perkembangan iaitu bermula denga... more Pendidikan Islam di Malaysia terbahagi kepada beberapa peringkat perkembangan iaitu bermula dengan pengajian di rumah, surau, masjid dan diikuti dengan pondok, madrasah dan sistem sekolah agama yang lebih formal. Sebagai sebuah institusi pendidikan Islam yang tertua dan diwarisi semenjak dari zaman Rasulullah (saw) lagi, institusi pondok adalah sangat penting dalam menyampaikan ajaran Islam. Institusi ini mempunyai keistimewaan tersendiri dan dikatakan paling tinggi kedudukannya serta mempunyai pengaruh yang sangat besar di kalangan masyarakat Melayu. Peluang untuk menuntut ilmu menjadi lebih terbuka kepada seluruh anggota masyarakat dengan adanya institusi pondok. Apa yang menarik menarik mengenai institusi pondok ini sebagai pusat pengajian islam ialah kebanyakan penghuninya adalah terdiri daripada mereka yang datang ke situ dengan kerelaan hati sendiri untuk tujuan menuntut ilmu dan inilah yang membezakan dengan sistem pendidikan formal.
This article discusses the conceptualization of soft skills which current higher institutions’ ed... more This article discusses the conceptualization of soft skills which current higher institutions’ educators of professional programmes should contemplate. Social work educators were probed to describe their experiences within their profession, and viewpoints on, soft skills as part of the professional socialization of social workers toward becoming professionally and socially competent when providing their services to their clients. In-depth interviews were used as means of gathering qualitative data. The transcribed data was then thematically analysed. This paper highlights the opinions of two social work educators, from two public universities, on the issue of soft skills among social workers. The social work educators insinuated that it is important to raise awareness of soft skills competencies among social work educators to help them in assessing themselves, and identify where and how they could actively seek to improve themselves as trainers or teachers of social workers to function effectively within the context of their workplaces. Embedding the soft skills competencies into their career as social workers is assumed as one of the effective and effcient method of achieving both professional and social competence. The proposed soft skills provided early ideas and initiatives which can serve as guideline when facilitating and guiding future qualifed social workers.
The literature and research in social work and social welfare domain is expanding rapidly in most... more The literature and research in social work and social welfare domain is expanding rapidly in most advanced nations. However, seemingly this scenario is not reflected in Malaysia.Scholars intent on learning about history and the development of social work would be confronting challenging difficulties to locate and obtain appropriate documented sources, since reference are not readily available.Though there are contributions to the literature that suggest social welfare in Malaysia was originally moulded by British colonial policy, to date there is no research that has been undertaken to explain or ascertain this proposition.Thus, the method used in the study is considered ‘unusual’ because during the decolonization period, most studies emphasized on the economic and political aspects of British colonialism.Working on the ground of developing the knowledge base of social work and social policy, at least in the context of Malaysia, it is the researcher’s intention to explore this area ...
This chapter examines the challenges faced by social work academia and profession in Malaysia. So... more This chapter examines the challenges faced by social work academia and profession in Malaysia. Social work was seen fit to produce the human resource that addresses social ills and lead to the creation of a caring society. As a developing nation, Malaysia is becoming more aware of the need to train professional social workers in order to enhance its citizens’ quality of life. In responding to this need, the social workers in Malaysia often face many challenges on how to apply their social work knowledge, skills, and values particularly when they have to intervene with their clients. Even though social work profession in Malaysia is developing positively, nevertheless there is no guideline of specific criteria being established for selection of social work undergraduates into Higher Education Institutions.
Buku ini memuatkan himpunan kertas kerja yang dibentangkan dalam Simposium Pembangunan Komuniti M... more Buku ini memuatkan himpunan kertas kerja yang dibentangkan dalam Simposium Pembangunan Komuniti Marginal yang telah diadakan pada 12-14 September 2006.Simposium ini dianjurkan oleh Jabatan Kerja Sosial, Fakulti Pembangunan Sosial dan Manusia, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) dengan kerjasama Yayasan Kebajikan Negara Malaysia (YKNM).Topik-topik yang dibincangkan di dalam buku ini dibahagikan kepada empat subtema yang merangkumi pengurusan komuniti marginal, perundangan, isu-isu kesihatan/kesihatan mental dan juga pendidikan dan latihan komuniti marginal.Adanya kupasan yang menyeluruh dan berdasarkan maklumat penyelidikan terkini mengenai isu serta permasalahan berkaitan komuniti marginal menjadikan buku ini amat sesuai untuk dijadikan rujukan meliputi golongan pelajar, penyelidik, pengamal kerja sosial dan pembuat dasar dalam pelbagai sektor perkhidmatan umumnya dan dalam bidang kerja sosial khususnya.
The use of proper and appropriate technology can help graduate students’ in developmental and con... more The use of proper and appropriate technology can help graduate students’ in developmental and constructive writing. The editing and refining processes involved in the writing can either be carried out individually or in small groups. These processes are helpful for novice education researchers to work on and build their research proposals. Their ability to organize information based on their reading of articles, as well as organizing the identified information systematically, is essential for writing a research proposal.A study was conducted to look at the thinking of graduate students on the use of a learning template that was developed by the researchers and used in the Research Methodology classes. This template, called the Organizing Article Review Template (OART), contains elements or focus to organize students' thinking and writing when they are reading research articles. A total of 34Master students, four Research Methodology course instructors, and 16 Master students’ Pr...
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