Marjo Romakkaniemi

Biographic Data

ID5822240
NAMEMarjo Romakkaniemi
GIVEN NAMESMarjo
FAMILY NAMERomakkaniemi
SIGNATUREROMAKKANIEMI M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lapland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work

    Open AccessVera Fiorentino, Marjo Romakkaniemi et al.ARTICLEQualitative Social Work2023

    In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the globe. The viral outbreak was followed by rapid changes in people’s everyday and working lives. Because of the wide-scale societal restrictions that took place to prevent the pandemic, social work was forced to take a digital leap. In this article, we examine Finnish social workers’ experiences of extending the use of digitally mediated social work (DMSW) in working with clients durin…

  • Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessMarjo Romakkaniemi, Mari Kivistö et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Work2023Cited by: 1References: 8

    Social work focuses on the social relationships, which the COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact. The article explores Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments in client relationships during the pandemic. The article is framed by relationship-based social work. The data consist of two datasets that together form a continuum: Finnish social workers’ personal diaries from mid-March to the end of May 2020, and interviews …

  • Home school at the edge of chaos during the lockdown: Social workers’ perspectives

    Open AccessLaura Tiitinen, Timo Harrikari et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2023References: 34

    As a response to prevent the spread of COVID-19, during the spring of 2020, home schooling replaced classroom education. From the social worker’s perspective, this paper explores how home school was organised among the social work client families and what types of resources were needed and launched to control the complexity of home schooling during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. The conceptual frameworks applied to theorise the self-organis…

  • I have built an office for myself in the sauna’ – The well-being of social workers in liminal space during the early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessSanna Saraniemi, Timo Harrikari et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2023References: 5

    We examine the experiences of Finnish social workers regarding their well-being during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing social workers’ diaries (n = 33) using thematic analysis. The pandemic and the restrictive measures caused significant changes in work and private lives challenging social workers’ well-being. Restrictive measures provided a kind of liminal space where the boundary between work and private life, daily rhyth…

  • Dimensions of social rehabilitation: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis

    Open AccessKati Kataja, Pilvikki Lantela et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work2022

    Social rehabilitation is conceived to encompass services that concentrate specifically on the social aspect of the rehabilitation process. This interpretive qualitative meta-synthesis of 25 social scientific research papers published between 1980 and 2019 dealing with the concept of social rehabilitation aims to unpack the different dimensions of the social within social rehabilitation in different contexts. Findings In most of the articles, the …

  • Pandemic and Social Work: Exploring Finnish Social Workers’ Experiences through a SWOT Analysis

    Open AccessTimo Harrikari, Marjo Romakkaniemi et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2021Cited by: 11References: 11

    This article addresses the experiences of Finnish frontline social workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. Two questions are addressed. First, ‘what types of challenges social work professionals faced’ in their everyday, ‘glocal’ pandemic setting and, second, what types of solutions they developed to meet these challenges. The data consist of 33 personal diaries that social work professionals created from mid…

  • Between Mobility and Belonging: The Meanings of Locality among Youth in Lapland in the Transition to Adulthood

    Open AccessTarja Juvonen, Marjo RomakkaniemiARTICLEYoung2018Cited by: 10References: 8

    The article analyses mobility and belonging to a place among young people living in rural areas in Finnish Lapland. Our focus is on the meanings of locality when young people make decisions concerning education, work and their living environment. The data consist of 24 interviews of persons in the transition stage to adulthood and in need of support in finding educational or training opportunities. The article highlights the diversity of young pe…

  • Locating Sámi social work in Finland: Meanings produced by social workers in working with Sámi people

    Open AccessLinda Järvensivu, Anneli Pohjola et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2016Cited by: 2References: 5

    This article examines culturally and locally relevant social work. Social work knowledge and practices are usually constructed on the basis of values and norms of the dominant culture. Our aim is to examine social work that is sensitive to local traditions by studying social work being carried out in Finland’s Sámi region. Our focus is on the meanings produced by social workers working with Sámi people. Sámi social work was found to be multidimen…