Lisbeth Verharen

Biographic Data

ID6185988
NAMELisbeth Verharen
GIVEN NAMESLisbeth
FAMILY NAMEVerharen
SIGNATUREVERHAREN L
AFFILIATIONSResearch Group for Strengthening Social Quality, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands
ORCID0000-0002-5848-1455
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Girls cook, boys play soccer: (Re)producing or Challenging Gender Norms in Youth Work Through Social Media

    Open AccessCarolien Terhorst, Kathrine Van Den Bogert et al.ARTICLEGender and Education2025References: 8

    Contains fulltext : 325176.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)

  • The everyday civic engagement of social work students

    Open AccessCarolien Terhorst, Els Rommes et al.ARTICLESocial Work Education2024

    Processes like globalization and digitalization are changing the way people civically engage, but policies and organizations that aim to cultivate or promote civic engagement have not yet acknowledged these new forms of participation.Social work is a profession that aims to foster civic engagement as a way to strengthen social cohesion.In this article, the civic engagement of social work students is examined.As young people they use contemporary …

  • The Application and Value of the Social Quality Approach for the Scientific Substantiation of Social Work

    Open AccessLisbeth Verharen, Judith Wolf et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2024

    In the Netherlands there is a growing awareness of the significance and potential of the social quality approach (SQA) for social work: its practice, its research, and the education of social workers. With this article we aim to encourage social workers, educational professionals, social work agencies, and researchers to delve into the SQA, to apply it through social quality-based interventions and practices, and to use it as a theoretical basis …

  • The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: A delphi study

    Open AccessThomas Noordink, Lisbeth Verharen et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Work2023References: 4

    The value of empowerment as a central concept for social work implies the potential benefits of measurement to understand how this value is materialised in social work. The way in which instruments are developed and constructed impact their quality. With regard to the complexity of measuring empowerment, this article aims to provide insights in experts’ views on the theoretical requirements to measuring empowerment in social work. A Delphi study …

  • Clients’ Perspectives on Integrated Care between Social Work and Financial- and Employment Services: A Case Study in the Netherlands

    Open AccessCarla Nouwen, Lobke Havens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research2023References: 12

    It is often the case that distinct social services work independently of each other, and by providing integrative services this can be prevented. This study focuses on integrated care between the social service fields of social work and financial- and employment services in the Netherlands. This article examines client’s perspective, in terms of needs, benefits, and results they experience, of the integrated care. A qualitative case study was con…

  • Measuring Instruments for Empowerment in Social Work: A Scoping Review

    Open AccessThomas Noordink, Lisbeth Verharen et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2021

    Empowerment is seen as an important thinking and working framework for social work. Ideally, it is possible to measure the empowering effects of social work. However, various factors complicate measuring empowerment, making it a difficult exercise. In past decades many instruments for measuring empowerment have been developed and there are many variations in the way these instruments have been developed. The aim of this review is to provide a com…