In this paper, we will organize the process of transfer of support information and rewrite the individual support plan to the latest information from the viewpoint of information transfer between organizations regarding the ideal way of continuous employment support in supported employment of persons with intellectual disabilities. He pointed out the importance of work. Specifically, as a framework for employment transition support, the information was created based on the concept of (1) PCP (person-centered plan) in creating an individual support plan by showing a “vertical information transfer” model between organizations. That, (2) analysis by functional assessment and PBS (Positive Behavioral Support) are described as a means to find out what the individual can do in the workplace training, and (3) Goals in employment preparation training. The conditions such as the fact that the results so far are described and (4) the positive information obtained in the workplace training for the individual to “do” are specifically described, and that information is sent to the employer side. After the transition, by showing a “horizontal information linkage” model among employees so that it does not become a mere ghost over time, the stages of “inheritance”, “update”, and “evaluation / request” are repeated. He mentioned the importance of accumulating information on what the individual can do in the individual support plan.

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This research extracts the gratitude factors that are critical elements underlying the motivation of workers and identifies the relationship between their workplaces and the desire to remain in that industry. We administered a questionnaire survey to nurses at a public hospital, extracted gratitude elements by factor analysis,and examined the relationship between the extracted elements and the motivation of nurses to continue their current careers. Two gratitude factors were identified: appreciation for giving and appreciation for receiving. Each factor showed a significant correlation with the desire to continue working as nurses. The group with high appreciation had significantly higher vocational willingness and workplace retention scores than the group with low appreciation. Our findings demonstrate that gratitude in a nursing workplace is closely related to the motivation of nurses and their desire to remain in the workplace.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify a part of the “recognition of Japanese students” held by long-term care teachers. For the analysis data,a semi-structured interview survey targeting long-term care teachers is used. For the analysis method, KH Coder's multidimensional scaling, co-occurrence network, and collocation statistics are used. As a result of the analysis, the teachers are confirmed as having had a decent interest in the ability necessary to live in society (including academic ability) of the Japanese students even in the face of the corona disaster and the increase in the number of international students.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the narratives of users at work continuation support type-B offices. The subsequent aim is to clarify the factors that promote the improvement of users’ QWL. In this study, we conducted an interview survey with users of business establishments. We then performed a Mayring qualitative content analysis on verbatim data. As a result of the analysis, 5 coding units were generated as driving factors for improving users’ QWL. Furthermore, the coded units were classified into three categories: [importance of earning money and continuing to add to savings from the workplace], [importance of cooperation between staff and environment improvement], and [importance of maintaining motivation for work]. From the results of this research,five points were clarified as factors that promote users’ employment: (1) not only earning money but continuing to save money, (2) utilization of groups, (3) existence of peer support, (4) enrichment of private life, and (5) regular life. It can be seen that these are factors that promote the continuation of employment, which clarifies part of the mutual complementarity between QWL and QOL.

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This study examined understanding regarding people with disabilities among health sciences university students who are strictly required to treat patients equally. Specifically, the study examined the reasons that enabled students to discern that someone had a disability when first meeting them as well as the different ways that students used honne (i.e., a genuine voice that conveys a person’s true feelings) and tatemae (i.e., a politicallycorrect façade shown in public spaces) when explaining about people with disabilities to elementary and junior high school students. The results revealed that over 80% of the study participants indicated that when meeting someone with a disability for the first time, they could tell that the person had a disability by sightalone or by sight and hearing. However, when the participants were explaining about people with disabilities to elementary and junior high school students, a high percentage of them chose conceptual explanations rather than explanations based on appearance. Moreover, when participants were explaining about people with disabilities in terms of honne, a high percentage of them referred to appearance, whereas tatemae explanations tended to be more conceptual. Contrary to expectations, these findings indicate that while health sciences university students’ understanding of people with disabilities may appear to be standardized, as is the case with medical treatment, this was not in fact the case.

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The present study was to identify factor structures of emphatic response and behavior related to the ethical behavior among care providers for the elderly. We developed a 94-item anonymized self-administered questionnaire, and distributed the questionnaire to all care providers for the elderly (n=3,142) from 76 organizations, which represented 28.1% of all special elderly nursing homes and long-term healthcare facilities (n=270) in Prefecture A. A total of 1,161 valid responses were collected (valid response rate: 40.0%), and exploratory factor analysis of the data yielded six factor structures that consisted of 20 items. Cronbach’ s α coefficient of the six factors ranged from 0.852-0.934 (overall: 0.904), confirming internal consistency for each factor. These factors were named as follows: 1) sharing negative emotions, 2) integrity, 3) sensitivity to emotions of others, 4) cooperativeness/compatibility, 5) sharing positive emotions, and 6) perspective taking and emphatic concern. Our findings indicated that all of these factors are valid and can be interpreted as emphatic response and behavior among care providers for the elderly. Integrity and cooperativeness/compatibility were specific to care providers for the elderly.

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The purpose of this paper is to build a care theory based on interpersonal relationship. Until now, care has been defined by various people. For example, Nel Noddings defines caregivers, care-receivers, and caring separately. On that basis, care consists of the interaction between the caregiver and the care-receiver. However, care by Noddings consists of each recognition, and in that care, the roles of the caregiver and the care-receiver are fixed. If the roles of the caregiver and the care-receiver are fixed, the possibility that the care-receiver will care (or the possibility that the caregiver will be cared for) cannot be opened. This paper discusses the perspective of care that clarifies the role in the process of living interpersonal relationship.

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This report focuses on the behavior modification approach as one specific approach used during public assistance counseling for social workers to understand and become involved with recipients’ issues. Therefore, this report attempts to categorize social work’s transition to the behavior modification approach and the approach’s features, and investigates the significance and usefulness of introducing the approach to public assistance social work.

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The purpose of this study was to integrate the grounded theories of difficulties faced by 5 social worker occupations in the Criminal Justice (Probation Officers and Rehabilitation coordinators in the Probation Office, Social Workers in Correctional Facilities, Regional Sustained Community Life Support Centers and ehabilitation facilities) in previous studies and to clarify common difficulties, and to give suggestions to the practical field and to present the elements that discuss the improvement of welfare support systems and measures in the framework of criminal justice in Japan. In this study, grounded theories of 5 occupations were integrated, 14 integration concepts were generated and converged into 5 categories. Then, 7 common concepts and 4 common categories of 5 occupations were revealed. In this study, we presented the difficulties that social workers in the Criminal Justice tend to face, including the background and factors, as explicit knowledge. Then, the dilemma between judiciary and welfare that social work in the Criminal Justice has historically and structurally is shown from the perspective of macro, meso and micro. This provided suggestions for predicting the difficulties that would be encountered in practice of social work.

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Right after practicum students wrote down their reports on practical training by the method of Episodic Description, their teachers gave them suggestions about the cases, and then the followings were revealed about building trust in relationship that is the foundation of childcare. First of all, a practicum student and a child with special needs exists mutually as subjects, and although they have difficulties in understanding each other, they need to be involved in the “education work” as empathetic others using the “nursing care”. Furthermore, building a relationship of trust between the practicum students and the child should form the sentiment and willingness to create an empathetic relationship between the two parties, and also means that the child, as a subject, adjusts his/her attitudes to accept the practicum student’ s wishes. In addition, the practicum students learned the following two things about the methods and environment of childcare for children with special needs. (1) One is the necessity of structuring an environment in stages, grasping children’s interests and concerns. (2) Another is that by building trust in relationship, importance of expanding empathetic relationships within the group and fostering a spirit of yearning for cooperative activities.

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The purpose of this exploratory study was to construct a model of how mothers with young children give Meaning to their “mom friends” and examine what they meant to them by a semi structured interview 18 mothers with young children. In addition, we conducted a supplementally examination to determine whether meaning to their mom friends differed between working and non-working mothers. The data obtained showed that the mothers viewed their mom friends positively and considered them to be “indispensable;” they gradually began to see them as simply friends rather than as other mothers. Simultaneously, the mothers seemed to be overly careful to not cause offense, because they feared losing these friendships. Analysis of the difference between working and non-working mothers revealed that working mothers appreciated the instrumental aspects of the friendships, such as being able to obtain practical help and useful information about child-rearing. In future,interviews same mothers need to be performed to investigate changes in the mothers’ meaning. Additionally, we needs to investigate “mom friends” to compared before COVID-19 calamity and after.

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Children who do not attend school often say that school is scary. Some of them have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, while others have not. Behind the words “school is scary”, they have potential anxiety. Understanding and supporting them is a daunting task. Therefore, based on the treatment theory and method of British Psychoanalyst Frances Tustin, I examine the therapy records of children who came to the Human Counseling Center of Chubu Gakuin University. As a result, I found that Tustin’s ideas were confirmed in all the following areas: in the world the child is experiencing, and in the therapist’s linguistic expression of the child’ s experience, and in the collaboration between the mother and the therapist. Therapy been found to be effective for children and parents.

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In response to the interruption of continuous group activities during the coronavirus pandemic, we conducted a basic checklist and semi-structured interview-style survey on the status of daily life functions for those who had not been certified as requiring long-term care or were not eligible for such certification under the longterm care insurance system as of March 2020. The demographics of the survey targets (50 respondents) were as follows: male: 31, female: 19; young-old: 13 (22.0%), oldest-old: 37 (78%); and group participants: 18 (36.0%), nonparticipants: 32 (64.0%). Among those who had interrupted continuous group activities for one year, about 10% of the oldest-old were in need of support or care. Those with a BMI of less than 18.5 (underweight) or more than 25.0 (overweight) were more likely to be non-participants in groups and tended to be negatively impacted in terms of social participation, mental health, and cognitive function. Regardless of their care needs or BMI status, more than 90% of those surveyed reported that their contact with society had decreased. We saw a tendency for people who are prone to psychological anxiety to have a BMI of less than 18.5 (underweight) due to reduced contact with society and fewer opportunities to talk with others. In one year without continuous frailty intervention, approximately 10% of the patients progressed to the state of requiring nursing care, suggesting the need for continuous frailty prevention measures.

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This study examines the process of social capital formation by [Machizukuri Cafe] in Esashi-cho, Hokkaido through community meetings (CM) covering the field of health and summarizes future issues. [Machizukuri Cafe] contributes to forming social capital by empowering residents through workshops that discuss everyday community issues and that consider mutual aid solutions. CMs provide a place to reach consensus and dialog based on the residents’ feelings, and policy proposals to government are envisioned. However, at the [Machizukuri café], residents must independently develop mutual aid activities, which are not assumed within any policy proposal. In the future, it is expected that [Machizukuri Cafe] participants will develop the ability make government proposals while envisioning a mutual aid system.

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This study aimed to develop a health maintenance and promotion care model that helps female inmates in their old age to focus on their own health and change their behavior, and to verify its effectiveness using subjective indicators. The research method was an intervention study using four major items as the care model: breathing exercises; oral care; back pain exercises; and hand washing. The study population consisted of 28 female inmates in the senile stage. The study period consisted of a basic level period, an intervention period, and a follow-up period. Subjective evaluations included pre- and post-comparison of daily living conditions and periodontal symptoms. Subjective changes in inmates after the care model were summarized using hierarchical clusters from word frequency analysis. The results showed significant improvement in the items of [sleep quality] and [periodontal disease symptoms]. The details of the constructs extracted as changes of Female Inmates in Middle-Aged Adults were [careful, good, importance, mind], [think, teeth, health], [feel, laugh, stress, learn,breathing], and [life, back pain exercises, positive, consider]. There were marked by positive behaviors and positive mental changes toward health. This care model provided an opportunity for behavior change Female Inmates in Middle-Aged Adults to look at their future from the perspective of health.

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We conducted a questionnaire survey of elderly people living in the community in order to clarify the awareness related to the death of the elderly and the implementation status of ACP. The subjects were 130 members belonging to the senior club, and the average age was 77. 0 ± 5. 9 years, 80 men (61. 5%), 56 elderly households (43.1%), etc. Approximately 60% of senior club members showed a positive awareness of death with dignity. In addition, in the ACP implementation status, 76 people (58.2%) had discussions, but 52 people (40.0%) did not express their intentions at the end of life. Those who showed a positive awareness of death with dignity had discussions and were significantly more likely to express their intentions. In the future, it can be expected that discussions on death and living will activities will increase by informing the elderly of the actual situation of dignified death and raising positive awareness.

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This literature review examines how care managers conceptualize supporting the independence of elderly people with basic nursing care needs in order to facilitate their continued involvement in community life. The concept of independence is often considered central to the objectives of social welfare and its associated law and systems. Independence for the elderly refers to leading a high-quality, autonomous life, and the nursing care insurance system aims to support such independence. Previous studies, however, have suggested that monitoring systems have failed to adequately support the independence of elderly people with basic nursing care needs and prevent their health from deteriorating. It is, therefore, necessary to identify how care managers conceptualize supporting the independence of elderly people with basic nursing care needs and the actual state of their care plans. We conclude that research is needed to build more mutual relationships between care managers and service users and to support paradigms in which the user takes the initiative so that daily activities are carried out [together.]

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