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Welfare Clients' Volunteering as a Means of Empowerment

Cohen, Ayala·2009·Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
DOI 10.1177/0899764008320196
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The population approaching social services for help is often characterized by poverty, passivity, helplessness, and an external locus of control. This population expects improvement in its situation but develops a dependent relationship with the help agents. The literature shows that volunteer work contributes toward developing empowerment among volunteers, but to date only a relatively small number of welfare clients have been activated as volunteers, serving more as the object of others' volunteer work. This article describes a classic experimental study, checking the connection between welfare clients' volunteering and their individual feeling of empowerment. The main and most significant finding in the study demonstrated that individual feeling of empowerment among clients who engaged in volunteer work was higher than that of clients not engaged in such work. The findings suggest that volunteer work may serve as an effective intervention tool in social work, whose aim is change in welfare clients' feelings of empowerment.

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Authors
Cohen, A.
Affiliations
Tel Hai Academic College (IL)
Corresponding author
Cohen, Ayala
ORCID
Cohen, Ayala
Venue
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2008-12-23
Volume
38
Issue
3
Pages
522-534
ISSN
  • 0094-0607 (ISSN-L)
  • 0899-7640
  • 1552-7395
DOI
10.1177/0899764008320196
OpenAlex
W1972564009
Cited by
47
References
35
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 8
FWCI
1.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Social Sciences and Policies
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Community Health and Development
Keywords
welfare clients, volunteering, empowerment, social services, poverty, locus of control, client dependence, social work intervention

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