J Hämäläinen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 676014 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Hämäläinen |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Hämäläinen |
| FIRMA | HÄMÄLÄINEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9834-1529 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The role of social work in vocational rehabilitation for people with mental health disorders in the Czech Republic, England, and Finland
This article compares the role of social work in vocational rehabilitation for people with mental health problems in the Czech Republic, England, and Finland. Mental health disorders are now a major cause of reduced work capacity, making effective rehabilitation essential. Finland provides an integrated system, England emphasizes activation and employability, and the Czech Republic still struggles with fragmentation and weak professional recognit…
Improving gerontological social work students’ digital competence
Digital competence is increasingly essential in gerontological social work (GSW), yet most curricula provide little structured preparation. This mixed-methods study examined changes in students’ self-rated digital competence across the duration of the course and explored how they perceived these developments. Thirty-two undergraduate GSW students from a Chinese college participated in this study. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed us…
The Idea of Research-Based Social Work as a Basis for Professional Autonomy
To be recognized as a fully-fledged profession with professional autonomy, social work must meet the criteria of a research-based intellectual activity based on social scientific education. This article demonstrates that research-based nature is a necessary condition for the professional autonomy of social work as part of the field's development into a full profession. Accordingly, the professional interest of social work research should be to pr…
Relationship between family environmental factors and infant sleep
This study examines the relationship between infant sleep and parenting style, family climate, parenting stress, and soothing methods among Finnish families. Mothers completed questionnaires before birth and when their infants were 3 and 8 months old. Initially, 1667 mothers participated, with follow‐up responses from 1421 mothers and 1427 infants at 3 months and 1298 mothers and 1302 infants at 8 months. A cross‐sectional data analysis was condu…
Exploring essential digital competencies for gerontological social workers
In today’s digital society, digital competence is crucial for gerontological social workers (GSWs) to support the well-being of older adults and promote professional development. However, there remains a significant gap in understanding what essential digital competencies GSWs should have. This case study aims to explore the essential digital competencies for GSWs based on the DigComp 2.2 framework. Data were collected through reflective assignme…
Social work in an information-intensive era
This article discusses the demands placed on social work by the digitalization of society. Examining social work as a modern professional system in the framework of the structural–functional theory of professions, the challenge of digitalization is mirrored against the background of international professional standards of social work. As a conclusion, it is suggested that the purposeful development of social work as a professional system in the i…
The Path Towards Personal Growth in Spousal Caregiving
Caregiver support is necessary for many long-term ill or disabled people to enable them to live at home. However, the impact of this care relationship on the caregiver is still partly unknown. This article focuses on the process of achieving personal growth in spousal caregiving. The aim of our study was to conduct an integrative literature review to describe the aspects associated with achieving personal growth as well as to analyze the relation…
The Chinese View of the Rights of the Child
This article aims to identify the nature of the interpretation of children’s rights in China. More specifically, it seeks to increase the understanding of the characteristics of the national perspective on children’s rights by examining and analysing the key issues relevant to the Chinese legislation. Using the concept of legal culture, the article offers a hermeneutic analysis of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Min…
A Theory of Planetary Social Pedagogy
The escalating planetary crises of human-induced climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and declining biodiversity call for urgent actions to be taken at all levels of society and by the global community. The current political strategy for a sustainable future that emphasizes economic and technological progress is insufficient to bring about the change required; an educational approach based on identities, values, ethics, and new wor…
Constructing child welfare science in the early development of child welfare in Finland
This paper delineates the intellectual history of endeavours to generate a unified science of child welfare in Finland in the early twentieth century by elucidating the efforts of leading Finnish protagonists to depict the concept of child welfare science. The idea of such a new science was not unique to Finland; similar trends emerged extensively throughout the industrialising world, in which child welfare was being increasingly championed. The …
Launching Paul Natorp’s Sozialpädagogik in Japan in the early twentieth century
Paul Natorp is better known as a key figure of Neo-Kantian epistemology than as a great educationist. This paper discusses the affinity for Natorp’s theory of education in Japan in the first decades of the twentieth century. It presents an overview of Natorp’s educational way of thinking and analyses the interest of Japanese educationists in the educational thought encapsulated in the conception of Natorp’s educational theory, which he called Soz…
Work-related stressors accompanying school social workers while assessing children’s well-being
This article presents the results of a comparative study investigating work-related stressors (WRSs) that accompany German and Finnish school social workers (SSWs) while assessing children’s well-being. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in combination with the case vignette technique. The interview data were subjected to a coding process and visualized with the MAXQDA software program. The findings are embedded in the respective country-s…
Mapping the field of international comparative research in school social work
This article maps the field of international comparative research in school social work. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted and subjected to a narrative synthesis. The review reveals 11 publications that are predominantly non-empirical, take mainly Asian, European, North American countries and Australia and New Zealand into account, and are focused on profession-related and sociopolitical aspects of school social work.…
Social Pedagogy as a Scientific Discipline, a Branch of Academic Studies, and a Field of Professional Practice
This article is based on productions dealing with aspects of social pedagogy analyzed by Hämäläinen, individually and collectively, such as the conceptual ambiguity of social pedagogy, the nature of social pedagogy as an academic discipline, social pedagogical guidance in social work and work with young people, ways of using the concept in Germany (2011) and Finland, as well as the field overview, including semantic and historical considerations.…
Child protection in China
This article offers a general review of the development of national policies on child protection in China. It offers an in‐depth analysis of related legislation enacted between 2010 and 2015 that have had an impact on child protection and related historical, cultural and legal issues. Furthermore, in the study we examined the emerging role of social work in preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect in China. Major findings of the resea…
Job-strain and well-being among Finnish social workers
Work-related mental distress and its impact on employees’ working life is a mounting issue among Finnish social workers. This article focuses on identifying the factors associated with child welfare social workers’ occupational well-being. The occupational well-being of Finnish child welfare social workers (N = 364) and social workers whose duties do not include child protection work (N = 524) was explored and compared with each other using t-tes…
The Chinese welfare philosophy in light of the traditional concept of family
The approach to developing professional welfare services for families is considered in the light of both conflicting traditional and modern family values. Providing updated understanding of the social needs of families in contemporary China, this article also discusses today’s challenges of welfare policies to recognize the changed necessities in order to identify appropriate policies and services to Chinese families, focusing on mainland China
The origins and evolution of child protection in terms of the history of ideas
Dealing with the methodological challenge of historical expounding, this paper discusses the historical formation of child protection with regard to the history of ideas. The aim is to identify the early intellectual grounds of the idea of child protection. Due to the fact that the genesis and evolution of child protection are shaped by many kinds of moral, social, educational, judicial and political interests as well as varied educational, psych…
Global Standards and the realities of multiculturalism in social work curricula
This study highlights social work’s response to socio-cultural diversity by investigating the reality of multiculturalism in social work curricula vis-a-vis the Global Standards debates. Content analysis technique is used from a transcendental perspective to explore the attributes of multiculturalism in social work curricula via the online directory of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. Each curriculum reflects relative attr…
Defining Social Pedagogy
This paper deals with the problem of ambiguity in relation to the term social pedagogy. It portrays a picture with multiple theoretical drivers, including historical, epistemological and professional. The aim is to improve our understanding of the multifaceted nature of social pedagogy—a topical and complex issue. Both distinguishing and common denominators associated with different schools of thought are considered. The analysis shows that build…
Trapped in poverty? A study of the dibao programme in Shanghai
As the secondary means of income redistribution in Chinese society (the primary means being taxation), the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) programme or dibao has been the object of both praise and criticism. The programme helps the government to channel its limited financial resources to the persons who need it most. While it covers the necessities of life, however, it does not enable its recipients to escape from poverty. It has also be…
Comparative research in social work
Although there has been a significant increase in the number of comparative studies in social work, there has, to date, been a deficit in terms of methodological discussion and development in this domain. In this article, a linked pair of methodological concepts (‘diachronic’–‘synchronic’), drawn from linguistics, and often used in comparative research studies in the humanities and social sciences, has been applied to the field of comparative res…
Socijalna skrb i socijalni rad u uvjetima globalizacije
U ovome se radu govori o preduvjetima socijalne skrbi i socijalnog rada sa stajališta globalizacije i neoliberalističkih trendova u socijalnoj politici. Posebna je pozornost posvećena globalizaciji kao takvoj te njezinu utjecaju na nacionalna gospodarstva, svijet rada, socijalnu politiku, usluge socijalne skrbi i na socijalni rad. U Finskoj je tradicija snažnih javnih agencija još uvijek jaka, ali se tržište privatnog sektora u uslugama socijalne…
Cigarette smoking, alcohol intoxication and major depressive episode in a representative population sample
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the associations of cigarette smoking and alcohol intoxication with major depressive episode. DESIGN: Major depressive episode during the past 12 months was assessed in a national representative cross sectional study using the Short Form of the University of Michigan version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (the UM-CIDI Short Form). SUBJECTS: A random sample of 5993 non-institutionalised Finni…
Social pedagogy as a meta-theory of social work education
Job-strain and well-being among Finnish social workers
Work-related mental distress and its impact on employees’ working life is a mounting issue among Finnish social workers. This article focuses on identifying the factors associated with child welfare social workers’ occupational well-being. The occupational well-being of Finnish child welfare social workers (N = 364) and social workers whose duties do not include child protection work (N = 524) was explored and compared with each other using t-tes…
Child protection in China
This article offers a general review of the development of national policies on child protection in China. It offers an in‐depth analysis of related legislation enacted between 2010 and 2015 that have had an impact on child protection and related historical, cultural and legal issues. Furthermore, in the study we examined the emerging role of social work in preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect in China. Major findings of the resea…
A Theory of Planetary Social Pedagogy
The escalating planetary crises of human-induced climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and declining biodiversity call for urgent actions to be taken at all levels of society and by the global community. The current political strategy for a sustainable future that emphasizes economic and technological progress is insufficient to bring about the change required; an educational approach based on identities, values, ethics, and new wor…
Social Pedagogy as a Scientific Discipline, a Branch of Academic Studies, and a Field of Professional Practice
This article is based on productions dealing with aspects of social pedagogy analyzed by Hämäläinen, individually and collectively, such as the conceptual ambiguity of social pedagogy, the nature of social pedagogy as an academic discipline, social pedagogical guidance in social work and work with young people, ways of using the concept in Germany (2011) and Finland, as well as the field overview, including semantic and historical considerations.…
Global Standards and the realities of multiculturalism in social work curricula
This study highlights social work’s response to socio-cultural diversity by investigating the reality of multiculturalism in social work curricula vis-a-vis the Global Standards debates. Content analysis technique is used from a transcendental perspective to explore the attributes of multiculturalism in social work curricula via the online directory of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. Each curriculum reflects relative attr…
The Chinese welfare philosophy in light of the traditional concept of family
The approach to developing professional welfare services for families is considered in the light of both conflicting traditional and modern family values. Providing updated understanding of the social needs of families in contemporary China, this article also discusses today’s challenges of welfare policies to recognize the changed necessities in order to identify appropriate policies and services to Chinese families, focusing on mainland China
The origins and evolution of child protection in terms of the history of ideas
Dealing with the methodological challenge of historical expounding, this paper discusses the historical formation of child protection with regard to the history of ideas. The aim is to identify the early intellectual grounds of the idea of child protection. Due to the fact that the genesis and evolution of child protection are shaped by many kinds of moral, social, educational, judicial and political interests as well as varied educational, psych…
Defining Social Pedagogy
This paper deals with the problem of ambiguity in relation to the term social pedagogy. It portrays a picture with multiple theoretical drivers, including historical, epistemological and professional. The aim is to improve our understanding of the multifaceted nature of social pedagogy—a topical and complex issue. Both distinguishing and common denominators associated with different schools of thought are considered. The analysis shows that build…
Social pedagogy as a meta-theory of social work education
Trapped in poverty? A study of the dibao programme in Shanghai
As the secondary means of income redistribution in Chinese society (the primary means being taxation), the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) programme or dibao has been the object of both praise and criticism. The programme helps the government to channel its limited financial resources to the persons who need it most. While it covers the necessities of life, however, it does not enable its recipients to escape from poverty. It has also be…
Comparative research in social work
Although there has been a significant increase in the number of comparative studies in social work, there has, to date, been a deficit in terms of methodological discussion and development in this domain. In this article, a linked pair of methodological concepts (‘diachronic’–‘synchronic’), drawn from linguistics, and often used in comparative research studies in the humanities and social sciences, has been applied to the field of comparative res…
Cigarette smoking, alcohol intoxication and major depressive episode in a representative population sample
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the associations of cigarette smoking and alcohol intoxication with major depressive episode. DESIGN: Major depressive episode during the past 12 months was assessed in a national representative cross sectional study using the Short Form of the University of Michigan version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (the UM-CIDI Short Form). SUBJECTS: A random sample of 5993 non-institutionalised Finni…
Social pedagogy as a meta-theory of social work education
Cigarette smoking, alcohol intoxication and major depressive episode in a representative population sample
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the associations of cigarette smoking and alcohol intoxication with major depressive episode. DESIGN: Major depressive episode during the past 12 months was assessed in a national representative cross sectional study using the Short Form of the University of Michigan version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (the UM-CIDI Short Form). SUBJECTS: A random sample of 5993 non-institutionalised Finni…
Socijalna skrb i socijalni rad u uvjetima globalizacije
U ovome se radu govori o preduvjetima socijalne skrbi i socijalnog rada sa stajališta globalizacije i neoliberalističkih trendova u socijalnoj politici. Posebna je pozornost posvećena globalizaciji kao takvoj te njezinu utjecaju na nacionalna gospodarstva, svijet rada, socijalnu politiku, usluge socijalne skrbi i na socijalni rad. U Finskoj je tradicija snažnih javnih agencija još uvijek jaka, ali se tržište privatnog sektora u uslugama socijalne…
Trapped in poverty? A study of the dibao programme in Shanghai
As the secondary means of income redistribution in Chinese society (the primary means being taxation), the Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (MLSG) programme or dibao has been the object of both praise and criticism. The programme helps the government to channel its limited financial resources to the persons who need it most. While it covers the necessities of life, however, it does not enable its recipients to escape from poverty. It has also be…
Comparative research in social work
Although there has been a significant increase in the number of comparative studies in social work, there has, to date, been a deficit in terms of methodological discussion and development in this domain. In this article, a linked pair of methodological concepts (‘diachronic’–‘synchronic’), drawn from linguistics, and often used in comparative research studies in the humanities and social sciences, has been applied to the field of comparative res…
Defining Social Pedagogy
This paper deals with the problem of ambiguity in relation to the term social pedagogy. It portrays a picture with multiple theoretical drivers, including historical, epistemological and professional. The aim is to improve our understanding of the multifaceted nature of social pedagogy—a topical and complex issue. Both distinguishing and common denominators associated with different schools of thought are considered. The analysis shows that build…
The origins and evolution of child protection in terms of the history of ideas
Dealing with the methodological challenge of historical expounding, this paper discusses the historical formation of child protection with regard to the history of ideas. The aim is to identify the early intellectual grounds of the idea of child protection. Due to the fact that the genesis and evolution of child protection are shaped by many kinds of moral, social, educational, judicial and political interests as well as varied educational, psych…
Global Standards and the realities of multiculturalism in social work curricula
This study highlights social work’s response to socio-cultural diversity by investigating the reality of multiculturalism in social work curricula vis-a-vis the Global Standards debates. Content analysis technique is used from a transcendental perspective to explore the attributes of multiculturalism in social work curricula via the online directory of the International Association of Schools of Social Work. Each curriculum reflects relative attr…
Child protection in China
This article offers a general review of the development of national policies on child protection in China. It offers an in‐depth analysis of related legislation enacted between 2010 and 2015 that have had an impact on child protection and related historical, cultural and legal issues. Furthermore, in the study we examined the emerging role of social work in preventing and responding to child abuse and neglect in China. Major findings of the resea…
Job-strain and well-being among Finnish social workers
Work-related mental distress and its impact on employees’ working life is a mounting issue among Finnish social workers. This article focuses on identifying the factors associated with child welfare social workers’ occupational well-being. The occupational well-being of Finnish child welfare social workers (N = 364) and social workers whose duties do not include child protection work (N = 524) was explored and compared with each other using t-tes…
The Chinese welfare philosophy in light of the traditional concept of family
The approach to developing professional welfare services for families is considered in the light of both conflicting traditional and modern family values. Providing updated understanding of the social needs of families in contemporary China, this article also discusses today’s challenges of welfare policies to recognize the changed necessities in order to identify appropriate policies and services to Chinese families, focusing on mainland China
Social Pedagogy as a Scientific Discipline, a Branch of Academic Studies, and a Field of Professional Practice
This article is based on productions dealing with aspects of social pedagogy analyzed by Hämäläinen, individually and collectively, such as the conceptual ambiguity of social pedagogy, the nature of social pedagogy as an academic discipline, social pedagogical guidance in social work and work with young people, ways of using the concept in Germany (2011) and Finland, as well as the field overview, including semantic and historical considerations.…
Mapping the field of international comparative research in school social work
This article maps the field of international comparative research in school social work. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted and subjected to a narrative synthesis. The review reveals 11 publications that are predominantly non-empirical, take mainly Asian, European, North American countries and Australia and New Zealand into account, and are focused on profession-related and sociopolitical aspects of school social work.…
Launching Paul Natorp’s Sozialpädagogik in Japan in the early twentieth century
Paul Natorp is better known as a key figure of Neo-Kantian epistemology than as a great educationist. This paper discusses the affinity for Natorp’s theory of education in Japan in the first decades of the twentieth century. It presents an overview of Natorp’s educational way of thinking and analyses the interest of Japanese educationists in the educational thought encapsulated in the conception of Natorp’s educational theory, which he called Soz…
Work-related stressors accompanying school social workers while assessing children’s well-being
This article presents the results of a comparative study investigating work-related stressors (WRSs) that accompany German and Finnish school social workers (SSWs) while assessing children’s well-being. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in combination with the case vignette technique. The interview data were subjected to a coding process and visualized with the MAXQDA software program. The findings are embedded in the respective country-s…
Constructing child welfare science in the early development of child welfare in Finland
This paper delineates the intellectual history of endeavours to generate a unified science of child welfare in Finland in the early twentieth century by elucidating the efforts of leading Finnish protagonists to depict the concept of child welfare science. The idea of such a new science was not unique to Finland; similar trends emerged extensively throughout the industrialising world, in which child welfare was being increasingly championed. The …
The Chinese View of the Rights of the Child
This article aims to identify the nature of the interpretation of children’s rights in China. More specifically, it seeks to increase the understanding of the characteristics of the national perspective on children’s rights by examining and analysing the key issues relevant to the Chinese legislation. Using the concept of legal culture, the article offers a hermeneutic analysis of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Min…
A Theory of Planetary Social Pedagogy
The escalating planetary crises of human-induced climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and declining biodiversity call for urgent actions to be taken at all levels of society and by the global community. The current political strategy for a sustainable future that emphasizes economic and technological progress is insufficient to bring about the change required; an educational approach based on identities, values, ethics, and new wor…
The Path Towards Personal Growth in Spousal Caregiving
Caregiver support is necessary for many long-term ill or disabled people to enable them to live at home. However, the impact of this care relationship on the caregiver is still partly unknown. This article focuses on the process of achieving personal growth in spousal caregiving. The aim of our study was to conduct an integrative literature review to describe the aspects associated with achieving personal growth as well as to analyze the relation…
Exploring essential digital competencies for gerontological social workers
In today’s digital society, digital competence is crucial for gerontological social workers (GSWs) to support the well-being of older adults and promote professional development. However, there remains a significant gap in understanding what essential digital competencies GSWs should have. This case study aims to explore the essential digital competencies for GSWs based on the DigComp 2.2 framework. Data were collected through reflective assignme…
Social work in an information-intensive era
This article discusses the demands placed on social work by the digitalization of society. Examining social work as a modern professional system in the framework of the structural–functional theory of professions, the challenge of digitalization is mirrored against the background of international professional standards of social work. As a conclusion, it is suggested that the purposeful development of social work as a professional system in the i…
The role of social work in vocational rehabilitation for people with mental health disorders in the Czech Republic, England, and Finland
This article compares the role of social work in vocational rehabilitation for people with mental health problems in the Czech Republic, England, and Finland. Mental health disorders are now a major cause of reduced work capacity, making effective rehabilitation essential. Finland provides an integrated system, England emphasizes activation and employability, and the Czech Republic still struggles with fragmentation and weak professional recognit…
Improving gerontological social work students’ digital competence
Digital competence is increasingly essential in gerontological social work (GSW), yet most curricula provide little structured preparation. This mixed-methods study examined changes in students’ self-rated digital competence across the duration of the course and explored how they perceived these developments. Thirty-two undergraduate GSW students from a Chinese college participated in this study. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed us…
The Idea of Research-Based Social Work as a Basis for Professional Autonomy
To be recognized as a fully-fledged profession with professional autonomy, social work must meet the criteria of a research-based intellectual activity based on social scientific education. This article demonstrates that research-based nature is a necessary condition for the professional autonomy of social work as part of the field's development into a full profession. Accordingly, the professional interest of social work research should be to pr…
Relationship between family environmental factors and infant sleep
This study examines the relationship between infant sleep and parenting style, family climate, parenting stress, and soothing methods among Finnish families. Mothers completed questionnaires before birth and when their infants were 3 and 8 months old. Initially, 1667 mothers participated, with follow‐up responses from 1421 mothers and 1427 infants at 3 months and 1298 mothers and 1302 infants at 8 months. A cross‐sectional data analysis was condu…
Political science (16 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (14 obras) · Social Work (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · China (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Pedagogy (5 obras)