Mihai-Bogdan Iovu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5823153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mihai-Bogdan Iovu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mihai-Bogdan |
| FAMILY NAME | Iovu |
| SIGNATURE | IOVU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4215-883X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Resilience of Older Adopted Children
Since 2016, the adoption of older children has become a priority for policymakers and practitioners in Romania. Until 2022, no study gave a voice to Romanian children to understand how they experience adoption and the challenges and facilitator factors they face. This study aimed to fill this gap by interviewing 12 preadolescents, domestically adopted. They offered important insights into the challenges they faced before and during adoption and t…
Preparing to be a parent for a child with ‘hard-to-place characteristics’
Social work competencies
The study analyses how social work professionals from Romania relate to a set of 45 practice behaviours further classified as professional and transversal competencies. During the last 30 years, upon the reinstalment of the profession in the early 90s, Romanian social work has gone through systemic changes in the areas of education and practice. We consider that this study contributes to strengthening the workforce in dealing with the current soc…
Back from the Ashes of Communism
The profession of social work in Romania was re-established in the early 1990s after being completely abolished for three decades during the communist period. This article reports findings from the first national survey of Romanian social workers, which studied characteristics of social workers and their roles, tasks and types of services provided. In addition, it explores how burnout, income and efficacy were associated with social workers’ plan…
Usage of human rights practice by Romanian social workers
The role of the social work professional in the 21st century is to recognize human rights in their daily practice. They should focus on challenging the structural societal conditions that diminish their clients’ rights and at the same time on initiating interventions that resist oppressive structures that deny basic political and economic rights. This quantitative study aimed at exploring the level of engagement in different rights-based practice…
Constructing future expectations in adolescence
Required to manage multiple developmental tasks, multiple systems and processes are involved in making adolescents thinking about and making plans for the future. The current study aims at exploring the manner in which individual (optimism, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and self-concept) and contextual factors (family and peer influences) contribute to the construction of adolescents’ future expectations. 1509 youth (891 females and 618 …
Future expectations of senior high schoolers in Romania
This study examines the future achievements of adolescents from Romania and their future worries about the pending transition to adulthood. The study examines the hypotheses that personal variables (e.g. gender, a personality trait of optimism) and social support variables (the support of family, peers) predict their future expectations. A total of 905 adolescents participated in the study. The self-report questionnaire covered several areas incl…
Current Issues and Future Directions in Evidence-Based Child Protection Practices
The constantly changing nature of social care practice necessitates continuous development of educational programs to prepare current practitioners. Basing social work practice on methodologically sound research evidence is an appealing prospect for the child protection services. However, Romania, once considered an Eastern European model for child welfare policy and practice, is somehow lagging behind. In this article the author gives a short ov…
Usage of human rights practice by Romanian social workers
The role of the social work professional in the 21st century is to recognize human rights in their daily practice. They should focus on challenging the structural societal conditions that diminish their clients’ rights and at the same time on initiating interventions that resist oppressive structures that deny basic political and economic rights. This quantitative study aimed at exploring the level of engagement in different rights-based practice…
Back from the Ashes of Communism
The profession of social work in Romania was re-established in the early 1990s after being completely abolished for three decades during the communist period. This article reports findings from the first national survey of Romanian social workers, which studied characteristics of social workers and their roles, tasks and types of services provided. In addition, it explores how burnout, income and efficacy were associated with social workers’ plan…
Social work competencies
The study analyses how social work professionals from Romania relate to a set of 45 practice behaviours further classified as professional and transversal competencies. During the last 30 years, upon the reinstalment of the profession in the early 90s, Romanian social work has gone through systemic changes in the areas of education and practice. We consider that this study contributes to strengthening the workforce in dealing with the current soc…
Current Issues and Future Directions in Evidence-Based Child Protection Practices
The constantly changing nature of social care practice necessitates continuous development of educational programs to prepare current practitioners. Basing social work practice on methodologically sound research evidence is an appealing prospect for the child protection services. However, Romania, once considered an Eastern European model for child welfare policy and practice, is somehow lagging behind. In this article the author gives a short ov…
Future expectations of senior high schoolers in Romania
This study examines the future achievements of adolescents from Romania and their future worries about the pending transition to adulthood. The study examines the hypotheses that personal variables (e.g. gender, a personality trait of optimism) and social support variables (the support of family, peers) predict their future expectations. A total of 905 adolescents participated in the study. The self-report questionnaire covered several areas incl…
Current Issues and Future Directions in Evidence-Based Child Protection Practices
The constantly changing nature of social care practice necessitates continuous development of educational programs to prepare current practitioners. Basing social work practice on methodologically sound research evidence is an appealing prospect for the child protection services. However, Romania, once considered an Eastern European model for child welfare policy and practice, is somehow lagging behind. In this article the author gives a short ov…
Constructing future expectations in adolescence
Required to manage multiple developmental tasks, multiple systems and processes are involved in making adolescents thinking about and making plans for the future. The current study aims at exploring the manner in which individual (optimism, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and self-concept) and contextual factors (family and peer influences) contribute to the construction of adolescents’ future expectations. 1509 youth (891 females and 618 …
Usage of human rights practice by Romanian social workers
The role of the social work professional in the 21st century is to recognize human rights in their daily practice. They should focus on challenging the structural societal conditions that diminish their clients’ rights and at the same time on initiating interventions that resist oppressive structures that deny basic political and economic rights. This quantitative study aimed at exploring the level of engagement in different rights-based practice…
Social work competencies
The study analyses how social work professionals from Romania relate to a set of 45 practice behaviours further classified as professional and transversal competencies. During the last 30 years, upon the reinstalment of the profession in the early 90s, Romanian social work has gone through systemic changes in the areas of education and practice. We consider that this study contributes to strengthening the workforce in dealing with the current soc…
Back from the Ashes of Communism
The profession of social work in Romania was re-established in the early 1990s after being completely abolished for three decades during the communist period. This article reports findings from the first national survey of Romanian social workers, which studied characteristics of social workers and their roles, tasks and types of services provided. In addition, it explores how burnout, income and efficacy were associated with social workers’ plan…
The Resilience of Older Adopted Children
Since 2016, the adoption of older children has become a priority for policymakers and practitioners in Romania. Until 2022, no study gave a voice to Romanian children to understand how they experience adoption and the challenges and facilitator factors they face. This study aimed to fill this gap by interviewing 12 preadolescents, domestically adopted. They offered important insights into the challenges they faced before and during adoption and t…
Preparing to be a parent for a child with ‘hard-to-place characteristics’
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Romanian (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)