Social Workers' Perceptions of Their Power and Service Outcomes

Neil B. Guterman · David Bargal

61 citations0/0 files storedAdministration in Social Work

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Social Work Education and Practice Social Sciences and Policies Social Power and Status Dynamics

Abstract

While social workers are becoming increasingly interested in methods of client empowerment, little attention has yet focused on the links between workers' own power and the services they provide to clients. The authors examine the link between workers' perceptions of their power on the job and perceived service outcomes. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted on survey responses from 591 direct practice social workers in Israel. Results indicate that power perceptions are significantly associated with an array of perceived service outcomes. These findings highlight the relevance of self-efficacy and control theory in understanding social workers' efforts toward effective service delivery. Further, they underscore a need to consider more carefully direct practitioners' own power concerns as they increasingly consider empowerment of their clients.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 61 citations exist upstream.

References

1977Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.1979Review of Psychometric theory (2nd ed.).1978The Structure of Coping 1975Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey.1975Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death 1988The Empowerment Process: Integrating Theory and Practice 1984Structural Sources of Intraorganizational Power: A Theoretical Synthesis 1994The empowerment approach to social work practice

Cited by

2004Specialization in Social Work Practice 2016Secondary traumatic stress and empowerment among social workers working with family violence or sexual assault survivors 2005Training for Cultural Competence 2011Differences between Children's Social Workers and Adults' Social Workers on Sense of Burnout, Work Conditions and Organisational Social Support 2002Strengths and Pathological Perspectives in Community Social Work 2000Understanding Social Workers' Sense of Competence Within the Context of Organizational Change

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.