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Journal of Hospice and Palliative... Dec 2019
Topics: Humans; Oncology Nursing; Social Work; Writing
PubMed: 31688440
DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000604 -
Journal of Social Work in End-of-life &... 2024
Topics: Humans; Family; Medical History Taking; Social Work
PubMed: 38346179
DOI: 10.1080/15524256.2024.2315430 -
Social Work Apr 2021
Topics: Employment; Humans; Social Justice; Social Work
PubMed: 33417697
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swaa051 -
Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) Jul 2019
Topics: Adult; Curriculum; Education, Graduate; Humans; Social Work; Social Workers; Suicide Prevention
PubMed: 31258030
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201900165 -
Social Work Sep 2023Social workers are sometimes named as defendants in malpractice lawsuits. These lawsuits allege negligence, specifically that social work defendants owed a duty to the... (Review)
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Social workers are sometimes named as defendants in malpractice lawsuits. These lawsuits allege negligence, specifically that social work defendants owed a duty to the plaintiff, breached this duty, and the defendant's actions caused harm. Plaintiffs in litigation cases typically allege that social workers violated or failed to meet prevailing standards of care in the profession. It is essential that social workers understand the legal concept of standard of care and its implications for professional practice. This article reviews the concept of standard of care; discusses the ways in which social work ethics standards, federal and state laws, national practice standards, expert witness testimony, and professional literature determine the standard of care; and presents practical steps social workers can take to comply with prevailing standards of care, protect clients, and protect themselves. The author focuses especially on complex cases where social workers may not agree on relevant standards of care.
Topics: Humans; Standard of Care; Social Work; Malpractice; Expert Testimony; Professional Practice
PubMed: 37421649
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swad023 -
Health & Social Work Jan 2023Oral health remains underutilized within both integrated service delivery and educational settings. Advancing social workers' roles in the education of oral health... (Review)
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Oral health remains underutilized within both integrated service delivery and educational settings. Advancing social workers' roles in the education of oral health providers is one strategic way to expand oral health and social work integration. Although the involvement of social workers in dental education is not new, fewer than 18 percent of the country's 68 accredited dental schools have active social work departments or services. This exploratory study sought to determine how, as of 2021, social work has been integrated into U.S. dental education programs (N = 13). Findings offer an overview of current social work programs in existence, roles social workers have in addressing social and behavioral health needs in dental education settings, and barriers to and facilitators in developing and sustaining integrated partnerships. This article discusses ways social work and oral health educational settings can mutually benefit from developing and/or strengthening their integrated collaborations. It also addresses a comparison of educational missions, clinical learning opportunities across both professions, and how patient care can be improved by expanding oral health and social work integration.
Topics: Humans; Education, Dental; Oral Health; Social Work; Social Workers
PubMed: 36511330
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlac038 -
JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan... Oct 2021The Social Work discipline emerged in the earlier 20th century globally and in 1953 in Pakistan. Medical Social Work, as a branch of Social Work, deals with non-medical... (Review)
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The Social Work discipline emerged in the earlier 20th century globally and in 1953 in Pakistan. Medical Social Work, as a branch of Social Work, deals with non-medical factors affecting diseases. As the needs of a sick person are hardly ever simple, rather these are complicated and multifarious, requiring several kinds of assistance, medical social work, in addition to medicines, is a way to deal with them. Medical social workers, as part of multidisciplinary teams, are well equipped to deal with the multidimensional issues of the patients. However, this in-depth literature review exposed that in Pakistan, Medical Social Work is still vague in terms of skills and services required and is struggling to achieve professional status. The major challenge to the profession is its integration with healthcare services. The role of social workers in healthcare setting is very limited, and they are involved merely in disbursement of free medicines out of charity funds. In Pakistan, neither the Social Work discipline has been given a chance to expand, nor its available services are made effective enough to be considered essential in healthcare.
Topics: Health Facilities; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Pakistan; Social Work
PubMed: 34974576
DOI: 10.47391/JPMA.04-589 -
Social Work Jun 2022This study aims to investigate how professional social work is practiced in U.S. public libraries using a scoping review method. Following Arksey and O'Malley's... (Review)
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This study aims to investigate how professional social work is practiced in U.S. public libraries using a scoping review method. Following Arksey and O'Malley's framework for conducting a scoping review, the research team undertook a scoping review of academic literature, such as peer-reviewed studies, academic conference presentations, and dissertations/theses, as well as so-called gray literature, including news articles and web search results. After every author's review, a total of 53 materials were included in the review. The findings from this study provide evidence that collaborations between social work and libraries are documented in the academic and gray literatures, and the collaborations have been rapidly increasing since 2015. The findings also show that these collaborations tend to operate in three main ways: (1) professional social workers and social work interns directly working with library patrons, (2) professional social workers providing consultation with or training to library staff, and (3) social workers providing linkages between library staff and community-based social services agencies.
Topics: Humans; Research Design; Social Work; United States
PubMed: 35586950
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swac025 -
Social Work Jun 2022The social work profession has made tremendous contributions to youth well-being, laying the foundation for social welfare systems and child protection laws. However,...
The social work profession has made tremendous contributions to youth well-being, laying the foundation for social welfare systems and child protection laws. However, deficit-based constructions of youth are deeply engrained in the profession. Social work researchers have called for attention to critical approaches like youth participatory action research (YPAR). YPAR has an action-oriented epistemology and engages youth as coresearchers, providing an opportunity to shift social work research and practice paradigms. Yet, social work scholars lag behind cognate disciplines in adopting YPAR. This article examines challenges that have stymied YPAR in social work. The authors review the historical roots of the profession and its relationship to youth; examine present challenges, including social work's training and career progression; and make suggestions for the future, calling social work to affirm our values by reevaluating the way we do research on youth, the way we train future social workers, and the paradigms driving our practice.
Topics: Adolescent; Community-Based Participatory Research; Health Services Research; Humans; Social Work
PubMed: 35470395
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swac016 -
Social Work Dec 2023Community social work (CSW) is often regarded as a practice with a variety of intervention models. The objectives of the present article are to examine CSW's...
Community social work (CSW) is often regarded as a practice with a variety of intervention models. The objectives of the present article are to examine CSW's philosophical and theoretical roots and to bridge the gap in the literature regarding the theoretical and philosophical origins of CSW and to conceptualize these theoretical bases as a paradigm with ontological, epistemological, axiological, and methodological aspects. The ontology of the proposed CSW paradigm relies on ecological theory, critical theory, and community psychology. The paradigm's epistemology relies on the basic assumption that community members are autonomous subjective human beings with important and valid knowledge who make decisions concerning their lives. Axiologically, the most prominent value of the paradigm is participation, from which other central values derive. The paradigm's methodology derives from its three abovementioned components. The conceptualization of a CSW paradigm provides a theoretical foundation for community interventions and refining the goals of these interventions. The paradigm can be used as a pedagogical and identity-building tool with students and social workers who focus on CSW.
Topics: Humans; Social Work
PubMed: 38031654
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swad051