Panagiotis Pentaris
Biographic Data
| ID | 294155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Panagiotis Pentaris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Panagiotis |
| FAMILY NAME | Pentaris |
| SIGNATURE | PENTARIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5593-8555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disasters and the need for Glocal Social Work
As climate change intensifies the risks of extreme weather conditions, the likelihood of disasters also increases. Under those circumstances, societies need to explore the degree to which they are prepared to respond to them and mitigate the potential risks from such events. Approximately 60,000 deaths are recorded during disasters annually, while millions of people are displaced, and the economic impact on infrastructures and community services …
Religious Disaffiliation and Sexually Minoritised Groups: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Religious teachings and beliefs often convey an understanding of sexuality that excludes and marginalizes sexually minoritised people. This PRISMA-compliant scoping review selected 29 peer-reviewed papers about the religious disaffiliation of sexually minoritised people for full-text analysis and synthesis. With the use of reflexive thematic and bibliometric analysis, the review found that current research highlights the complicated relationship …
An Exploration of Lived Experiences of Sexually and Gender Diverse Staff Members in Higher Education: A Case Study
Sexually and gender diverse staff in Higher Education Institutions may experience a sense of belonging and acceptance in inclusive environments, but may also face discrimination and bias, leading to feelings of isolation and exclusion. This paper reports on findings from 40 in-depth interviews and six focus group discussions with LGBTQIA+ self-identified staff members in a HEI and LGBTQIA+ allies who may identify as LGBTQIA+ themselves. Findings …
Ageing and loss attitudes of social work students: A cross-sectional study
The world's population is radically shifting; with the help of medicine and technology, people live longer and increasingly healthier lives.As a result, professions like social work are faced with the need for new and expert skills and knowledge when working with people of older age and those experiencing loss.To identify such needs, the exploration of current views is paramount as it will shed light to gaps in skills and knowledge altogether.Thi…
The role of faith in the experience of grief among sexually diverse individuals: A systematic review
Bereavement in older age in LGBTIQ adults
Shame and Social Work: Theory, Reflexivity and Practice, Liz Frost, Veronika Magyar-Haas, Holger Schoneville and Alessandro Sicora (eds)
Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good, Hansjörg Schmid and Amir Sheikhzadegan
Journal Article Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good, Hansjörg Schmid and Amir Sheikhzadegan Get access Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good, Hansjörg Schmid Amir Sheikhzadegan, New York, Springer Link, 2022, 284 pp., ISBN 978-3-03095-882-4 (soft cover), ISBN 978-3-03095-879-4 (hardcopy) and 978-3-03095-880-0 (eBook); £34.99 (softcover) and £44.99 (hardcover) Panagiotis Pentaris Pana…
Palliative Professionals’ Views on the Importance of Religion, Belief, and Spiritual Identities toward the End of Life
Abundant literature has argued the significance of religion, belief, and spirituality at the end of life. This study aims to add to this literature by exploring palliative professionals' views in this area. By means of an in-depth interviewing method, this paper reports data from 15 hospice and palliative care professionals. Participants were recruited from five hospice and palliative care organisations, and the data were managed and analysed wit…
Recentring anti-racist practice in social work education and training in England: A qualitative study
Data from nine focus-group discussions is presented here, contained within a larger study. The focus groups involved social work students, academics, practice educators and newly qualified social workers, and explored challenges and opportunities as these emerged from the upsurge of the Black Lives Matter movement and relevant activism following the end of May 2020. The majority of participants do not feel that they have been prepared well for an…
Integrating the Global Agenda of Social Work and Social Development in the Republic of Cyprus
Cyprus is a nation of great history, old and new, that makes up a controversial and often stressful environment in which social work is practiced. The intent of this paper is to highlight the Cypriot context and discuss how the Global Agenda is integrated in it. Drawing on the key objectives of the Global Agenda — promoting social and economic equalities; promoting the dignity and worth of peoples; promoting community and environmental sustainabi…
Religion and Belief Literacy: Reconnecting a Chain of Learning , Adam Dinham
Religion and Belief Literacy extends the conversations about the integration of the plurality of beliefs—religious or not—in the varied aspects of the public sphere. With precision, Adam Dinham is exploring ‘where’ and ‘how’ learning about religion and belief takes place, concluding to ways in which that learning can become more coherent, clear, focused and complementary. This book is premised in previous works by Dinham, and primarily reports on…
Digital poverty in social work education during Covid-19
The use of technology in social work education is neither new nor without its debates. The conversation has been gradually informing us of the challenges and controversies, as well as benefits in education, practice, policy and research. Yet, in the face of COVID-19 and associated quarantine measures, social work education has been tasked with a fast-paced adjustment to online, and where feasible, hybrid learning. This reflection raises the argum…
The Functional Role of Music in Communicating Death through/in YouTube Videos
Since the establishment of thanatology, the science of death, in the early 20th century, death has not only been considered a controversial subject, but it has also been regarded as a taboo topic. Various ways of communicating death have developed over the last few decades. With the advent of different mass and social media and their increasing impact on everyday life in the 21st century, death can now be communicated via a number of media platfo…
Health care practitioners and dying patients
A full understanding of and a competent approach to dying patients may lead to a more qu-alitative service delivery, an enhanced quality of life paradigms, and the patients’ well-being, all of which remain the ultimate goal of health care practice. The modern world has developed in parallel with secularism and religious diversity. This paper aims to illustrate the secularization process in Britain (with indications of generalized meanings) and ju…
The role of background music in the experience of watching YouTube videos about death and dying
YouTube is the largest video sharing site live at the moment. It has been used to communicate a vast array of information, while it allows for user-generated content. This paper will focus on YouTube videos that communicate death, and in particular will present findings from a preliminary study undertaken by the authors considering the role that background music plays in these videos. Specifically, this study explores the experiences of the viewe…
UK Public’s Views and Perceptions About the Legalisation of Assisted Dying and Assisted Suicide
Current debates about assisted dying and assisted suicide cover a series of medical, legal, moral, ethical and religious aspects. Yet, public views on the subject remain underexplored and, therefore, not always accounted for in the formation of public policy. This paper reports on empirical data from a cross-sectional study in the UK in 2019, which examines public views about the legalisation of assisted dying and assisted suicide, by means of a …
Integrating religion and belief in social work practice: An exploratory study
This exploratory study examines how social work practitioners in England integrate service users’ religion, belief and spiritual identities. The study involved 34 semi-structured interviews with Qualified Social Workers and took a qualitative investigational perspective. By means of thematic analysis, the study suggests that practitioners employ either avoidant or utilitarian approaches, which may indeed be a coping strategy before the vast relig…
Religious/Spiritual Referrals in Hospice and Palliative Care
This study examines the religious/spiritual referral patterns in hospice and palliative care. Religion and death are two highly intersected topics and albeit often discussed together in hospice and palliative care, little is known about how professionals respond to religious/spiritual needs of patients/families/friends and in relation to the chaplaincy team. By means of an in-depth interviewing method, this paper reports on data from 15 hospice a…
Dying in full detail: Mortality and digital documentary
Dying in full detail is a topical and indispensable text. It examines the trend of documenting death and dying through the lens of the advancement of digital media, as well as expounds the literatu
Religious Literacy in Hospice Care: Challenges and Controversies
This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care. Specifically, it considers the significant place that spiritual care has in hospice care and claims that the changing role of religion and belief in society highlights the need to re-examine how such identities are integrated in professional practice. Using religious literacy as a framework, the author explores how healthcare professionals in h…
Death anxiety and religious belief: An existential psychology of religion
Death anxiety and religious belief: an existential psychology of religion." Mortality, 23(1), pp. 101–102
Cultural and Religious Diversity in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Qualitative Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of the Challenges of Health-Care Professionals
Research has abundantly demonstrated a strong relationship between culture, religion, and the experiences of death, dying, and bereavement. Consequently, cultural competence and a religiously sensitive practice have become highly relevant to social policies and professional practice. However, our current knowledge of culturally competent and religiously sensitive end-of-life care is primarily context specific, with little space for generalizabili…
Palliative care professional’s perceptions of barriers and challenges to accessing children’s hospice and palliative care services in South East London: A preliminary study
These findings contribute to the equal opportunities dialogue in this sector and the need for future research to address the challenges identified
Negotiating belief in health and social care
Religion and belief, either as identities or concepts, have been explored by several contemporary theorists and researchers (e.g. Davie, 2013, 2015; Casanova, 1994; Bruce, 2011; Berger, 1999; Hervieu-Léger, 2000; Day, 2011; Woodhead and Catto, 2012; Dinham, 2009). The desire to examine religion and belief in the public sphere stemmed from the ambiguity of secularisation theories, suggesting a massive religious decline in societies. By and large, …
The marginalization of religion in end of life care: Signs of Microaggression
Purpose Service users very often interpret and respond to their experiences of death, dying and bereavement through a religious or spiritual lens. However, recent trends in religion and belief have influenced how professionals respond to indicators such as faith. Since the post-war years in Britain, and due to the transfer of services from church to state, as well as the change in the religious landscape, language has largely secularized. When pe…
Recentring anti-racist practice in social work education and training in England: A qualitative study
Data from nine focus-group discussions is presented here, contained within a larger study. The focus groups involved social work students, academics, practice educators and newly qualified social workers, and explored challenges and opportunities as these emerged from the upsurge of the Black Lives Matter movement and relevant activism following the end of May 2020. The majority of participants do not feel that they have been prepared well for an…
Digital poverty in social work education during Covid-19
The use of technology in social work education is neither new nor without its debates. The conversation has been gradually informing us of the challenges and controversies, as well as benefits in education, practice, policy and research. Yet, in the face of COVID-19 and associated quarantine measures, social work education has been tasked with a fast-paced adjustment to online, and where feasible, hybrid learning. This reflection raises the argum…
Palliative care professional’s perceptions of barriers and challenges to accessing children’s hospice and palliative care services in South East London: A preliminary study
These findings contribute to the equal opportunities dialogue in this sector and the need for future research to address the challenges identified
Religious understandings of a good death in hospice palliative care
Religious understandings of a good death in hospice palliative care." Mortality, 19(3), pp. 320–321
Believing in Belonging: Belief & Social Identity in the Modern World
Believing in Belonging arises against the backdrop of a “near-obsession with societal secularisation”, characterised by a focus on two ‘bs’—belonging and behaviour, with relative neglect of a third
Religious Literacy in Hospice Care: Challenges and Controversies
This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care. Specifically, it considers the significant place that spiritual care has in hospice care and claims that the changing role of religion and belief in society highlights the need to re-examine how such identities are integrated in professional practice. Using religious literacy as a framework, the author explores how healthcare professionals in h…
Death anxiety and religious belief: An existential psychology of religion
Death anxiety and religious belief: an existential psychology of religion." Mortality, 23(1), pp. 101–102
Cultural and Religious Diversity in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Qualitative Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of the Challenges of Health-Care Professionals
Research has abundantly demonstrated a strong relationship between culture, religion, and the experiences of death, dying, and bereavement. Consequently, cultural competence and a religiously sensitive practice have become highly relevant to social policies and professional practice. However, our current knowledge of culturally competent and religiously sensitive end-of-life care is primarily context specific, with little space for generalizabili…
Palliative care professional’s perceptions of barriers and challenges to accessing children’s hospice and palliative care services in South East London: A preliminary study
These findings contribute to the equal opportunities dialogue in this sector and the need for future research to address the challenges identified
Negotiating belief in health and social care
Religion and belief, either as identities or concepts, have been explored by several contemporary theorists and researchers (e.g. Davie, 2013, 2015; Casanova, 1994; Bruce, 2011; Berger, 1999; Hervieu-Léger, 2000; Day, 2011; Woodhead and Catto, 2012; Dinham, 2009). The desire to examine religion and belief in the public sphere stemmed from the ambiguity of secularisation theories, suggesting a massive religious decline in societies. By and large, …
The marginalization of religion in end of life care: Signs of Microaggression
Purpose Service users very often interpret and respond to their experiences of death, dying and bereavement through a religious or spiritual lens. However, recent trends in religion and belief have influenced how professionals respond to indicators such as faith. Since the post-war years in Britain, and due to the transfer of services from church to state, as well as the change in the religious landscape, language has largely secularized. When pe…
Dying in full detail: Mortality and digital documentary
Dying in full detail is a topical and indispensable text. It examines the trend of documenting death and dying through the lens of the advancement of digital media, as well as expounds the literatu
The Functional Role of Music in Communicating Death through/in YouTube Videos
Since the establishment of thanatology, the science of death, in the early 20th century, death has not only been considered a controversial subject, but it has also been regarded as a taboo topic. Various ways of communicating death have developed over the last few decades. With the advent of different mass and social media and their increasing impact on everyday life in the 21st century, death can now be communicated via a number of media platfo…
Health care practitioners and dying patients
A full understanding of and a competent approach to dying patients may lead to a more qu-alitative service delivery, an enhanced quality of life paradigms, and the patients’ well-being, all of which remain the ultimate goal of health care practice. The modern world has developed in parallel with secularism and religious diversity. This paper aims to illustrate the secularization process in Britain (with indications of generalized meanings) and ju…
The role of background music in the experience of watching YouTube videos about death and dying
YouTube is the largest video sharing site live at the moment. It has been used to communicate a vast array of information, while it allows for user-generated content. This paper will focus on YouTube videos that communicate death, and in particular will present findings from a preliminary study undertaken by the authors considering the role that background music plays in these videos. Specifically, this study explores the experiences of the viewe…
UK Public’s Views and Perceptions About the Legalisation of Assisted Dying and Assisted Suicide
Current debates about assisted dying and assisted suicide cover a series of medical, legal, moral, ethical and religious aspects. Yet, public views on the subject remain underexplored and, therefore, not always accounted for in the formation of public policy. This paper reports on empirical data from a cross-sectional study in the UK in 2019, which examines public views about the legalisation of assisted dying and assisted suicide, by means of a …
Integrating religion and belief in social work practice: An exploratory study
This exploratory study examines how social work practitioners in England integrate service users’ religion, belief and spiritual identities. The study involved 34 semi-structured interviews with Qualified Social Workers and took a qualitative investigational perspective. By means of thematic analysis, the study suggests that practitioners employ either avoidant or utilitarian approaches, which may indeed be a coping strategy before the vast relig…
Religious/Spiritual Referrals in Hospice and Palliative Care
This study examines the religious/spiritual referral patterns in hospice and palliative care. Religion and death are two highly intersected topics and albeit often discussed together in hospice and palliative care, little is known about how professionals respond to religious/spiritual needs of patients/families/friends and in relation to the chaplaincy team. By means of an in-depth interviewing method, this paper reports on data from 15 hospice a…
Digital poverty in social work education during Covid-19
The use of technology in social work education is neither new nor without its debates. The conversation has been gradually informing us of the challenges and controversies, as well as benefits in education, practice, policy and research. Yet, in the face of COVID-19 and associated quarantine measures, social work education has been tasked with a fast-paced adjustment to online, and where feasible, hybrid learning. This reflection raises the argum…
Palliative Professionals’ Views on the Importance of Religion, Belief, and Spiritual Identities toward the End of Life
Abundant literature has argued the significance of religion, belief, and spirituality at the end of life. This study aims to add to this literature by exploring palliative professionals' views in this area. By means of an in-depth interviewing method, this paper reports data from 15 hospice and palliative care professionals. Participants were recruited from five hospice and palliative care organisations, and the data were managed and analysed wit…
Recentring anti-racist practice in social work education and training in England: A qualitative study
Data from nine focus-group discussions is presented here, contained within a larger study. The focus groups involved social work students, academics, practice educators and newly qualified social workers, and explored challenges and opportunities as these emerged from the upsurge of the Black Lives Matter movement and relevant activism following the end of May 2020. The majority of participants do not feel that they have been prepared well for an…
Integrating the Global Agenda of Social Work and Social Development in the Republic of Cyprus
Cyprus is a nation of great history, old and new, that makes up a controversial and often stressful environment in which social work is practiced. The intent of this paper is to highlight the Cypriot context and discuss how the Global Agenda is integrated in it. Drawing on the key objectives of the Global Agenda — promoting social and economic equalities; promoting the dignity and worth of peoples; promoting community and environmental sustainabi…
Religion and Belief Literacy: Reconnecting a Chain of Learning , Adam Dinham
Religion and Belief Literacy extends the conversations about the integration of the plurality of beliefs—religious or not—in the varied aspects of the public sphere. With precision, Adam Dinham is exploring ‘where’ and ‘how’ learning about religion and belief takes place, concluding to ways in which that learning can become more coherent, clear, focused and complementary. This book is premised in previous works by Dinham, and primarily reports on…
The role of faith in the experience of grief among sexually diverse individuals: A systematic review
Bereavement in older age in LGBTIQ adults
Shame and Social Work: Theory, Reflexivity and Practice, Liz Frost, Veronika Magyar-Haas, Holger Schoneville and Alessandro Sicora (eds)
Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good, Hansjörg Schmid and Amir Sheikhzadegan
Journal Article Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good, Hansjörg Schmid and Amir Sheikhzadegan Get access Exploring Islamic Social Work: Between Community and the Common Good, Hansjörg Schmid Amir Sheikhzadegan, New York, Springer Link, 2022, 284 pp., ISBN 978-3-03095-882-4 (soft cover), ISBN 978-3-03095-879-4 (hardcopy) and 978-3-03095-880-0 (eBook); £34.99 (softcover) and £44.99 (hardcover) Panagiotis Pentaris Pana…
Ageing and loss attitudes of social work students: A cross-sectional study
The world's population is radically shifting; with the help of medicine and technology, people live longer and increasingly healthier lives.As a result, professions like social work are faced with the need for new and expert skills and knowledge when working with people of older age and those experiencing loss.To identify such needs, the exploration of current views is paramount as it will shed light to gaps in skills and knowledge altogether.Thi…
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (10 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (9 works) · Social science (9 works)