Researcher Profile and Settings

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Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / Social welfare

Education

• University of Hawaii, - 1994
• University of Hawaii, - 1994
• ア－ラム大学, 人間と社会関係学科, - 1985
• Earlham College, - 1985

Degree

• M.S.W., University of Hawaii

Association Memberships

• 日本キリスト教社会福祉学会, 1997, 9999
• The Association of Social Studies, Doshisha University, Sep. 1996, 9999
• 同志社大学社会福社学会, Sep. 1996, 9999
• 日本社会福祉学会, 1996, 9999
• National Association of Social Workers, 1996, 9999

MISC

• The Bazaar Cafe - Creating a place to be together across differences
  Hazama, A.; Sasaki H.; Matsuura C.; Nomura Y.; Mensendiek M.; Shirahase T.
  25 Jul. 2024
• "Place" and Spiritual Care - Considerations on the Practice at the "Bazaar Cafe"
  Martha Mensendiek
  キリスト教社会福祉学研究, (56) 35 - 45, Jan. 2024
• 国際ソーシャルワークを知る
  木村真理子; 小原眞知子; 武田丈
  25 Apr. 2022
• 平和とキリスト教と社会福祉ーそのラディカルな使命ー
  マーサ メンセンディーク
  キリスト教社会福祉学研究, 49 7 - 15, 2017
• “Human Trafficking in Japan”
  MENSENDIEK Martha
  Disciples World, 9(1) 18 - 20, 2010
• 「在日フィリピン人コミュニティの自助組織」
  MENSENDIEK Martha; Comafay,N
  『ソーシャルワーク研究』, 35(3) 17 - 25, 2009
• A Model of Community Organization and Empowerment : Habitat for Humanity International
  Mensendiek Martha
  Hyoronshakai kagaku : social science review, Doshisha University, 58(58) 43481 - 16, 1998
  

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• Women, migration and prostitution in Thailand
  M Mensendiek
  INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK, 40(2) 163 - &, Apr. 1997
• Migrant Women in Japan : A Look at Human Rights Issues and Implications for Social Work
  Mensendiek Martha
  Japanese journal of social services, Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare, (1) 141 - 146, 1997
• Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Services : Hawai'I as a Case Study
  Mensendiek Martha
  Hyoronshakai kagaku : social science review, Doshisha University, 57(57) 43666 - 20, 1997
  

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Works

• 「HIV陽性者の地方 コミュニティーでの受け入れに関する研究」
  厚生労働科学研究費補助金エイズ対策事業 研究代表者; 白阪琢磨
  2018 -2020
• 基盤研究（C）研究成果報告書『多文化・国際ソーシャルワークに共通するセルフヘルプ活動に関する国際比較研究』
  2010
• 基盤研究（B）研究成果報告書「ソーシャルワークと東アジアモデルの構築に関する研究」
  2008

Research Projects

• Comprehensive Research on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Systems for and Factors Hindering Implementation in Japan
  Yoshida Yoko
  This research undertook to explore the status of domestic implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which Japan ratified in 1985, or to what extent the Convention was complied with. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Convention's monitoring body examines the periodic reports submitted by the Japanese government, and issues its Concluding Observations. In the research, the background and the status of discrimination in Japan that were indicated in the " principal areas of concern" and "recommendations" in the Observations were examined regarding the domestic implementation of the Convention, in order to conduct a comprehensive analysis covering domestic legal system, policy, judiciary, history, culture and society, and clarify the factors hindering the full implementations of the Concluding Observations in Japan., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2017/04 -2020/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kyoto Human Rights Research Institute
• Examining the Effectiveness of CBPR in International and Multicultural Social Work
  TAKEDA Joe
  This study examined the effectiveness of CBPR by conducting four research projects on vulnerable mothers and children who have ties with foreign countries. In each CBPR, either/both participatory methods such as Empowerment Evaluation and the conventional methods such as questionnaires and interviews were used to clarify the needs of each community, to make an action plan to improve its community or organization, monitor the project, and evaluate each project collaboratively with people in each community. Although some of the original objectives could not be met due to a lack of time, the results of these four CBPR projects overall indicate that CBPR is indeed an effective approach to empower members as well as communities in international and multicultural social work., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2015/04 -2018/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kwansei Gakuin University
• Voluntary Support Network for the Elderly Foreigner: A New Movement of Korean Old Comers in Kyoto (Japan)
  KATO Hiroshi; OZAWA Wataru; OGAWA Eiji; MARTHA Mensendiek; YAMADA Hiroko; ISHIKAWA Kuniko; MAKITA Yukihumi; MORITA Yuri
  About 41,000 foreign residents live in Kyoto city and more than half of them are Korean long term residents (Korean old comers). Kyoto city is the best suited place in Japan to focus on the problem of aged foreign residents. We are now undertaking a Participatory Action Research with MORE-NET’s members. We conducted a survey on the foreign elderly and the Japanese elderly in Kyoto City, collaborating with MORE-NET as well as Neighborhood Associations (NHA). We explain about the results of our action research in this paper. We hope this action research will contribute to the realization of an inclusive and multi-cultural society., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2010 -2012, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Ryukoku University Faculty of Junior College
• International Comparative Study on Self-Help Programs in International and Multicultural Social Work
  TAKEDA Joe; SUN Linda; MENSENDIEK Martha
  To develop a practice model which functonally ties international and mutlticultural social work together, qualtitative research on Filipino migrant workers was conducted in Japan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. The results showed the effectiveness of participatory action research for facilitating self-help programs of migrant workers as well as empowerment of both individuals and the group as a whole. It also suggested importance of forming an association of individual self-help groups., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2007 -2009, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kwansei Gakuin University
• The purpose of constructing an East Asian model of Social Work, research on theory and practice
  KUROKI Yasuhiro; NAKAJIMA Kazuo; YOON Jung Soon; KUGA Hiroto; KWEON Hyunju; MARTHA Mensendiek
  With the purpose of constructing an East Asian model of Social Work, research on theory and practice was conducted with a focus on the relationship between social work and national culture. First, research was conducted in Japan, Korea and China, which looked at the relevancy of demographic factors, views on the care of elderly parents, and family cohesion. Results involved the development of a scale to measure elder parent care in East Asia. Using the factor construct model, the concept's validity was statistically supported. Results showed that Confucianism, which values the care of elderly parents is a variable that cannot be ignored, and that it is possible to presume that age and recognition of family cohesion are both relevant in views regarding elder parent care. Seeing how these results are embodied in social worker's practice behavior will be an issue for future research. In addition, taking a look at elderly lifestyles, culture, awareness and needs, while employing the concept of social support, a survey was conducted in Japan, Korea and China in order to understand the awareness among the elderly toward support(in their daily lives). Results confirmed that family is the most important source of support for the elderly, and is most highly selected. At issue next is to consider the construction of a model of theory and practice in assistance to the elderly, and its possible application. Next, research looking into the cultural foundation of social work theory and practice and its special characteristics was carried out, toward the construction of a social work model. Research that targeted staff of social work facilities for the elderly in Korea and Japan, obtained fruitful results relating to individual conceptions, Confucian culture, and family culture. In addition, a survey on views of elderly care was administered in Hawaii, a multicultural society., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2005 -2007, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Doshisha University
• International Social Work
  Competitive research funding
• 国際社会福祉
  Competitive research funding