![]() ![]() The aim of using the arts to intensify the interpretive voice of the women is to listen to that voice beyond its ‘entertainment’ element to the level of how it shifts the understanding of people in power and redirects social work policy and intervention. This will show how symbolic rather than direct forms of expression, mediated through the social–critical prism of third world feminism (namely the static elements of culture and gender, and their interaction with the dynamic elements of hybrid cultural identity and the negotiation of new types of poverty) enabled the social worker to get closer to the pain, dilemmas, conflicts, and solutions that the women constantly negotiate within their hybrid social realities. This model will be exemplified with a case study of group art work by marginalized Bedouin women in Israel undergoing rapid cultural transition. Abstract This paper exemplifies how symbolic self-expression offers the opportunity to express alternative perspectives and hybrid identities that challenge dominant social work paradigms, often in a way that is perceived as less threatening than words by ‘traditional’ women crossing cultural borders due to immigration, or to indigenous cultural transition. ![]() Visual imagery can be used to strengthen social worker’s integration of different demands with their emotional supports and coping strategies. We discuss the potential application of using visual imagery as a tool to bridge gaps in supervision practice and as a simple pedagogic tool for promoting contemplative processes of learning. ![]() Evaluation data was captured from the participants’ pre-workshop questionnaire, visual analyses of the images generated and the social worker’s narratives and post-workshop evaluation. We describe an arts-based intervention in which five groups of social work professionals in England (n=30) were invited to explore guided imagery as a tool for reflecting on a challenge or dilemma arising in their everyday practice. As a means of complementing and enriching their supervision experiences and practice. It is timely to explore effective short-term, self-regulatory methods of support for professionals. Simultaneously, the quality and content of social work supervision has become increasingly vulnerable to both local and global systemic issues impacting on the profession. We further outline the implications of this methodology for other cases.ĪBSTRACT The literature has consistently documented the impact of the work on the health and wellbeing of individual practitioners and the tensions they experience when mediating organisational demands with the needs of service users. The present manuscript illustrates this innovative analytical prism, providing examples of images and explanatory narratives of engaged and married young Muslim women in Israel, as self-defined by the participants rather than as an external anthropology. The proposed methodology includes three central compositional elements of art analyses: the interrelationship between figure and background within a composition, the recourses and obstacles included in the picture background and the use of symbols and metaphors. In this methodology, the arts are used not as a diagnostic tool or as fine art, but rather as a trigger for a reflective and socially critical dialogue with community members, with the aim of understanding how they experience their life situation. In this article, we aim to describe and demonstrate the use of a methodology for using arts-based techniques to co-produce knowledge with community members, thus making it accessible at both the theoretical and practice levels for social workers and social work educators. 25 The article discusses implications of conceptualising the relationship between social work and the arts and humanities as a way to enhance social workers' skills. These mechanisms are demonstrated through images of a group of marginalised Bedouin women in Israel. Finally, arts enable negotiating multiple understandings and initiating new perspectives through using shifting symbols and shifting compositional elements. Art enables situating subjective experience within social context with the help of the rela-20 tionship between figure, background and spatial division of recourses (meaning material physical and also abstract recourses available to a specific group). The paper will demonstrate how the arts can enable a space to reflect, to give concrete shape and to discuss and explore new meanings of an issue, for both 'sides' of the interaction together. 15 This paper outlines a set of art mechanisms that can help to co-produce knowledge between service users, social workers and policy makers. ![]()
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