Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 63–78
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This study investigates the impact of role overload and innovation fatigue on team viability. A quantitative survey of team members who are knowledge workers was conducted, and 207 participants were surveyed. The results show that, while role overload does not directly affect team viability, innovation fatigue has a significant negative impact. Further analysis demonstrates that innovation fatigue mediates the relationship between role overload and team viability. These findings demonstrate that team management strategies should include employees’ innovation fatigue interventions and effectively manage role demands to ensure a successful team’s future. In addition, the study advances the theoretical and practical understanding of the effects of work stressors on team viability, emphasising the importance of addressing demanding work tasks in knowledge-intensive organisational environments.
Pub. online:18 Jun 2025Type:Book ReviewOpen Access
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 242–244
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Brigita Kreivinienė. Sensorinės dietos kortelės. Metodinė priemonė. 2025. Iliustracijų autorė Urtė Kraniauskaitė. Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla. Ne visos metodinės priemonės tampa mokslininkų dėmesio objektu ir pristatomos moksliniuose žurnaluose. Dažniausiai tai praktikams skirta platforma. Ši metodinė priemonė sudaro galimybes mokslininkams tyrinėti vaikų ir jaunuolių sensorinius poreikius įgyvendinančias inovatyvias prieigas, skatina geriau suprasti neurologinių sutrikimų raišką bei sensorinių poreikių įgyvendinimo paieškas. Klaipėdos universiteto leidykloje publikuota ir pristatyta metodinė priemonė vaikams ir jaunuoliams, kurie turi individualios pagalbos poreikių, „Sensorinės dietos kortelės“ – tai inovatyvi sensorinių poreikių realizavimo praktikoje prieiga. Sensorinės dietos kortelės skirtos sensorinių poreikių turintiems vaikams ir jaunuoliams, kurių kasdieniam socialiniam dalyvavimui būtina šiuos poreikius patenkinti.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 227–241
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The article analyses the issue of the seasonality of tourism, and examines whether cultural activities could mitigate this problem in the famous Lithuanian resort of Neringa. Research results from other countries indicate that this is quite an effective strategy for reducing seasonality. The study aims to explore the region’s seasonal challenges and identify cultural events that could help alleviate the seasonality of tourism in Neringa. It employed a quantitative survey and descriptive statistics for data analysis. The findings reveal that the seasonality of tourism in Neringa can be reduced by increasing the number of festivals and concerts, creating tourism packages that include cultural events, and organising these events to leverage the connection between nature and culture.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 214–226
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Caring professionals are one of the largest groups working in the field of human services. Important personal qualities in this area include strong communication skills, the ability to empathise with individuals’ experiences and manage one’s own emotions, a sense of responsibility, patience and helpfulness, and self-confidence. This article compares attitudes towards professional activity between two caring professions: social workers and pastoral care professionals. The results of the survey revealed that both groups have similar views on the specifics of their work, with more noticeable differences in attitudes related to spirituality. This aspect is significantly more important for pastoral care professionals than for social workers, although the ultimate goal of both professions remains the same: providing professional support to those in need.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 196–213
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With the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), the Catholic Church reintroduced the ministry of the permanent diaconate. Since then, ministers have been living and working in many regions of the world, now also in Lithuania. What is their mission? How will they have a lasting and fruitful impact? This article clarifies which biblical sources of diakonia and diaconate and which early Church texts can provide orientation, and raises the urgent question of a diaconate for women, as only men have been admitted to this ministry to date. This article goes on to examine those sources that can be considered fundamental for the reintroduction of this ministry by the Second Vatican Council, before turning to the Amazon Synod initiated by Pope Francis. The resulting synodal and post-synodal documents are presented, discussed and taken further, towards the vision of a Diaconal Church.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 173–195
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In the article, a qualitative study aims to reveal the possibilities for applying mediation as a method to empower clients in making decisions in conflict situations in social work. Mediation initially emerged in Lithuanian society in the judicial sphere, but entirely new opportunities have begun to take shape in social work. The analysis of the participants’ reflective experiences reveals that social mediation is gradually becoming a competence or specialisation for social workers. Active listening to the client, their involvement in the mediation process, where equality and openness between the conflicting parties prevail, opens up opportunities for the client’s personal transformation process, aimed at empowering them to take responsibility for the process, seek solutions, and adhere to them. The analysis shows that mediation influences clients’ empowerment to make decisions in conflict situations in social work, and enables them to act in real life as well.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 153–172
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The article reveals the phenomenon of alcohol dependence and assesses the situation of people in a situation of dependence who seek support. In this context, the authors assess the impact of social work interventions on recovering health and the improvement of the quality of life at mental care centres. The study reveals that social workers face many challenges in their work, including professional burnout, emotional exhaustion, and strategies for maintaining motivation in addicts in the context of social stigma towards these people. The emotional burden of working with individuals who often suffer from repeated relapses is presented as a critical problem that needs to be addressed by better support measures for specialists. The article reveals the difficulties of interdisciplinary team cooperation due to resource limitations and professional differences. In order to improve the effectiveness of social work interventions, it is emphasised that the support and participation of relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbours in the process of recovery and integration into society allow social workers to seek innovative intervention methods in solving the problem of alcohol dependence in society.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 127–152
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Volunteering is an important resource for non-governmental organisations, but a trend in declining volunteer engagement is observed, with volunteers not staying in organisations for long. This encourages researchers to analyse and understand the impact of volunteers’ personal factors on their activities. The purpose of the study was to analyse the interaction between emotional support line volunteers’ self-efficacy and their choice of stress coping strategies. A quantitative study was conducted. The study involved 90 women, aged 26 to 66, volunteering for emotional support lines. To assess the self-efficacy of emotional support line volunteers, the Volunteer Self-Efficacy Scale developed by the Youth Line Volunteer Preparatory Course Programme (Bagdonienė et al., 2008) and by Youth Line Supervisor A. Semokaitė (2009) was used. The Stress Coping Questionnaire, developed by Grakauskas and Valickas (2016), was used to evaluate volunteers’ stress coping characteristics. Participants were also asked socio-demographic questions about their gender, age, education, marital status, work activity/employment, monthly income, and volunteering duration. The results of the study revealed that emotional support line volunteers with higher self-efficacy more often chose social support and problem-solving strategies to cope with stress, and less often emotional expression and release strategies.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 110–126
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Trends in population ageing, the growing demand for public resources to care for older adults, and social policies aimed at formalising informal care, all underscore the need to develop a unified and efficient care system in modern welfare states. However, the prevailing discourse that pits formal care against informal care, along with deep-rooted traditions of family caregiving, expectations of receiving family care in old age, and mistrust in the quality of formal care, create significant barriers to integrated care provision. Integrated care for older adults seeks to bridge these two systems: one perceived in the public discourse as altruistic, loving care, and the other as a rational choice motivated by compensation. A critical question for their integration is whether there are common points of connection that can reconcile such differently defined systems of care. This paper aims to identify the preconditions for integrating formal and informal care for older adults by exploring the concept of care work. Through a secondary analysis of research findings, the study compares the perspectives of formal caregivers (individual care workers) and informal caregivers (family members) on caregiving. The results indicate that, when examined through the lens of the ‘work’ concept, formal and informal caregiving have many similarities. These two forms of care not only complement but, in some cases, substitute one another. The study’s findings convey a positive message to society and care recipients, showing that formal care, as a fulfilling work choice for caregivers, shares more commonalities with informal caregiving than differences.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 94, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 97–109
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In this study, we examine the psychological well-being of older adults who have experienced the loss of a child. The study delves into whether psychological well-being differs between those who have and those who have not experienced the death of a child, and whether the time since the loss helps to predict well-being. Data from Waves 7 and 8 of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (N = 37 649) were used. Psychological well-being was assessed with the Control, Autonomy, Self-Realization, and Pleasure (CASP-12) scale. The results show that while bereaved individuals tend to have lower psychological well-being, the difference is small. It was also found that the time after bereavement is positively associated with levels of well-being, indicating the possible long-term recovery of well-being.