Clara Cruz Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 7237590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Cruz Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara Cruz |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating Between Welfare Deservingness and Social Justice
This study examines how social workers interpret welfare deservingness and exercise professional discretion when implementing social protection programmes within a decentralised welfare system. Grounded in a human rights and social justice perspective, it explores how frontline professionals navigate tensions between institutional mandates, ethical commitments, and the realities of everyday practice. Using a qualitative design, semi-structured in…
Social perceptions of welfare deservingness
New paradigms in social intervention in response to social-political challenges are often rooted in public opinion and street-level bureaucrats’ perception of welfare deservingness. This scoping review examines available evidence on public and street-level views of welfare deservingness and maps state-of-the-art research. It employed PRISMA and produced a narrative synthesis based on studies from 2000 to 2023. The literature searches identified a…
Assessing ‘empowerment’ as social development
Empowerment is a concept widely used in several policy documents and is presented, in social work and social care professional universes, as an operative process to reduce vulnerability and to increase the power, or capabilities, of individuals and groups to make choices and to transform these into actions and results. However, to move beyond rhetoric and paternalistic practices, we need to understand what empowerment really means and implies in …
Reconceptualizing social work in times of crisis
What started as a peripheral banking crisis in 2008 within five years triggered the deepest recession Europe has seen in decades, escalating to manifold socio-political crises. Under these circumstances, many social workers find themselves in a situation of extreme pressure and insecurity. Traditional theories and orthodox practices are now challenged by frontline social workers. This article explores such a ‘reconceptualization’ process, evaluat…
Serviço Social
Reconceptualizing social work in times of crisis
What started as a peripheral banking crisis in 2008 within five years triggered the deepest recession Europe has seen in decades, escalating to manifold socio-political crises. Under these circumstances, many social workers find themselves in a situation of extreme pressure and insecurity. Traditional theories and orthodox practices are now challenged by frontline social workers. This article explores such a ‘reconceptualization’ process, evaluat…
Assessing ‘empowerment’ as social development
Empowerment is a concept widely used in several policy documents and is presented, in social work and social care professional universes, as an operative process to reduce vulnerability and to increase the power, or capabilities, of individuals and groups to make choices and to transform these into actions and results. However, to move beyond rhetoric and paternalistic practices, we need to understand what empowerment really means and implies in …
Serviço Social
Reconceptualizing social work in times of crisis
What started as a peripheral banking crisis in 2008 within five years triggered the deepest recession Europe has seen in decades, escalating to manifold socio-political crises. Under these circumstances, many social workers find themselves in a situation of extreme pressure and insecurity. Traditional theories and orthodox practices are now challenged by frontline social workers. This article explores such a ‘reconceptualization’ process, evaluat…
Assessing ‘empowerment’ as social development
Empowerment is a concept widely used in several policy documents and is presented, in social work and social care professional universes, as an operative process to reduce vulnerability and to increase the power, or capabilities, of individuals and groups to make choices and to transform these into actions and results. However, to move beyond rhetoric and paternalistic practices, we need to understand what empowerment really means and implies in …
Social perceptions of welfare deservingness
New paradigms in social intervention in response to social-political challenges are often rooted in public opinion and street-level bureaucrats’ perception of welfare deservingness. This scoping review examines available evidence on public and street-level views of welfare deservingness and maps state-of-the-art research. It employed PRISMA and produced a narrative synthesis based on studies from 2000 to 2023. The literature searches identified a…
Navigating Between Welfare Deservingness and Social Justice
This study examines how social workers interpret welfare deservingness and exercise professional discretion when implementing social protection programmes within a decentralised welfare system. Grounded in a human rights and social justice perspective, it explores how frontline professionals navigate tensions between institutional mandates, ethical commitments, and the realities of everyday practice. Using a qualitative design, semi-structured in…
Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social Welfare (2 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Welfare (2 works) · Community Health and Development (1 work) · Development economics (1 work)