Publicações Científicas em Serviço Social

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    Rights-Based Vision: a portuguese validation of the Human Rights Lens in Social Work scale
    (Springer, 2025-04-07) Daniel, Fernanda; Moinho, Tatiana; Espirito-Santo, Helena; Menezes, Manuel; McPherson, Jane
    Integrating human rights principles into social work practice is essential for advocating and protecting clients’ rights. The Human Rights Lens in Social Work (HRLSW) scale, which measures social workers’ ability to see the human rights dimensions of their work, can be used to promote rights-based practices within social work. Originally developed in the USA, the scale requires validation in different cultural contexts to ensure its applicability and relevance. Therefore, to assess the scale’s reliability and construct validity in Portugal—and to examine its applicability among Portuguese social workers—a study was conducted to validate the HRLSW-PT, the Portuguese version of the HRLSW. The sample consisted of 138 social workers, mostly female (88.4%) with an average age of 31.63 years (SD = 11.94). Principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis supported a revised two-factor structure for the HRLSW-PT, consisting of nine items (RMSEA = 0.019; TLI = 0.996; CFI = 0.997). The HRLSW-PT and its two factors, “clients seen as experiencing rights violations” and “social problems seen as rights violations,” demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach’s .84, .87, and .69, respectively). The HRLSW-PT is a reliable and valid tool for assessing Portuguese social workers’ perspectives and attitudes towards human rights issues. The HRLSW-PT can now inform educational and professional development programs, enhancing social workers’ capacity to advocate for and protect human rights, thereby promoting social justice and equity in Portugal. The authors argue for similar validations in countries worldwide to facilitate cross-national comparisons and promote rights-based practices among social workers worldwide.
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    Values, Ethics and Theoretical Perspectives of the Hartford Social Competency Scale-II: Factorial Structure and Reliability of a Portuguese Version
    (Oxford Academic - British Association of Social Workers, 2021-10-28) Daniel, Fernanda; Espirito-Santo, Helena
    Social work practice with the older population demands assessing gerontological competencies, for which values and ethics are central. This study aimed to test the adjustment of the Portuguese version of the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Competency Scale II subscale— values, ethics and theoretical perspectives (GSWCS-II-VEPT) to a bifactor structure and to analyse its reliability in a sample of social workers. The study enrolled 534 social workers employed in older adults’ care organisations. The confirmatory factorial analysis showed that the items presented factorial loads more than 0.60, and the bifactorial component model fitted well with the data. The two components consisted of ‘nuclear competencies’ and ‘specialised skills’. The GSWCS-II-VEPT presented excellent reliability (Cronbach’s a¼0.90). However, high interfactor correlations demanded the test of a single-factor solution. The single-factor model did not fit the data as well as the two-factor solution, and the Akaike information criterion value was smaller in the two-factor model, indicating a superior fit. The results support adequate psychometric properties of GSWCS-II-VEPT in evaluating ethical skills, values and theoretical perspectives in Portuguese social workers and can be used as a tool for self-evaluation of these professionals’ ethical behaviour.