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Journal of Evidence-based Social Work... 2020
Topics: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Female; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Middle Aged; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Social Work; United States
PubMed: 32508278
DOI: 10.1080/26408066.2020.1774457 -
Internal and Emergency Medicine Sep 2023
Topics: Humans; Delivery of Health Care; European Union; Social Work
PubMed: 37329430
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-023-03342-4 -
Social Work Apr 2021Race, ethnicity, and racism (RER) are interconnected with the critical problems tackled in the Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW). Yet, the extent to which the GCSW...
Race, ethnicity, and racism (RER) are interconnected with the critical problems tackled in the Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW). Yet, the extent to which the GCSW discuss the central role of RER is less clear. This article investigates how the GCSW integrate RER in their discourse. Using content analysis, authors examined all 21 concept papers that comprise the 12 initial GCSW to determine their attention to RER. Authors assessed whether each paper made any reference to race or ethnicity, whether race or ethnicity was considered as a primary theme, and whether racism was mentioned. Nine GCSW had at least one paper that mentioned race or ethnicity; seven had at least one paper that treated race and ethnicity as a major construct. Five GCSW contained at least one paper that discussed racism's impacts on their topical interests. None of the papers analyzed in the study defined or specified their conceptualization of racism. The GCSW are strategically positioned to widen and deepen social work's focus on RER, and the recent adoption of the 13th GCSW to "Eliminate racism" is an important first step. Authors encourage the social work field to embrace a more explicit, renewed, and continued commitment to eradicating systemic racism.
Topics: Ethnicity; Humans; Racism; Social Work
PubMed: 33523185
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swaa053 -
British Journal of Nursing (Mark Allen... Mar 2024
Topics: Adult; Humans; Social Support; Social Work; England
PubMed: 38512785
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2024.33.6.281 -
BMJ Open Oct 2020Leadership skills are an integral part of effective social work practice in health and mental healthcare settings. Social workers require critical leadership skills to...
INTRODUCTION
Leadership skills are an integral part of effective social work practice in health and mental healthcare settings. Social workers require critical leadership skills to effectively support, treat and advocate for the complex needs of those most vulnerable. Despite an increasing focus on social work leadership within the last decade, there has been a paucity of research on social work leadership competencies within the realm of health and mental health service provision. To bridge this gap, this scoping review will synthesise and map the current literature on social work leadership competencies in health and mental healthcare.
METHODS AND ANALYSIS
Arksey and O'Malley's five-stage framework for scoping reviews will guide our search of six academic databases including: PsycINFO, OVID Social Work Abstracts, OVID Medline, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts and CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Selected articles that meet inclusion criteria will then be reviewed and charted. Recurrent themes will be reviewed through a qualitative thematic analysis, and reported in both text and figures.
ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION
Findings will highlight key social work leadership competencies as they relate to social work practice, team dynamics, and client outcomes within health and mental healthcare. Material retrieved in this scoping review was selected from publicly available sources, and thus as an obtrusive research method, this review does not warrant ethics approval. Findings from this review will be disseminated through published scholarly material, as well as presented at conferences pertaining to social work research, practice and education.
Topics: Delivery of Health Care; Humans; Leadership; Mental Health Services; Research Design; Review Literature as Topic; Social Work
PubMed: 33020102
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038790 -
Social Work in Health Care 2024This scoping review investigates the untapped potential of predictive analytics in healthcare social work, specifically targeting early intervention frameworks. Despite... (Review)
Review
This scoping review investigates the untapped potential of predictive analytics in healthcare social work, specifically targeting early intervention frameworks. Despite the escalating attention predictive analytics has garnered across multiple disciplines, its tailored application in social work remains notably sparse. This study endeavors to fill this lacuna by meticulously reviewing the extant literature and delineating the prospective advantages and inherent constraints of integrating predictive analytics into healthcare social work. The outcomes of this inquiry enrich the prevailing dialogue on the utility of predictive analytics in healthcare, offering indispensable perspectives for practitioners and policymakers in the social work domain.
Topics: Humans; Prospective Studies; Delivery of Health Care; Social Work
PubMed: 38349783
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2024.2316700 -
Social Work Sep 2022The social construction of cannabis has important implications for policy, research, practice, and education in social work. The objective of this article is to chart...
The social construction of cannabis has important implications for policy, research, practice, and education in social work. The objective of this article is to chart the construction of cannabis in articles published in social work journals across the past half century. The author critically reviews empirical articles with references to cannabis published in 15 key social work journals between 1970 and 2018. Systematic searches resulted in a combined set of 510 articles, of which 244 matched the inclusion criteria for this study. A content and thematic analysis of the corpus identified the dominant construction of cannabis in social work research literature as a harmful substance undifferentiated from other drugs. This construction was challenged by a minority of the articles in three ways: (1) by differentiating between use and abuse and between cannabis as a soft drug and a hard drug; (2) by highlighting social inequality as an important component of any consideration of social work policy and practice with regard to cannabis use; and (3) by considering the possible positive effects of cannabis use. This article calls for a revision of the construction of cannabis use in social work.
Topics: Cannabis; Humans; Social Work
PubMed: 35869948
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swac030 -
Journal of Evidence-based Social Work... 2024In August 2022, the Association of Social Work Boards released a long called for pass rate analysis that revealed significant disparities. While many states look to... (Review)
Review
PURPOSE
In August 2022, the Association of Social Work Boards released a long called for pass rate analysis that revealed significant disparities. While many states look to cease the requirement of the Bachelors, Masters, and Advanced Generalist exams in their licensure process, status quo bias leads to hesitancy to remove the requirement of the Clinical exam.
METHOD
A critical review was undertaken to identify possible alternatives to the current multiple-choice competency-based exam which yielded three assessment formats (oral exams, portfolios, and performance assessment/simulations) and two alternatives (jurisprudence exams and provisional licensure). Informed by an Afrocentric lens, we undertook a social and racial policy analysis to examine alternative pathways for licensure from the perspective of a social work board member. We centered our analysis on the impacts on (1) Black social workers, who currently have the highest pass-rate disparities; (2) social workers whose primary language is not English, and (3) social workers with disabilities who have anecdotally reported difficulty with getting testing accommodations. We rated each alternative on four social equity analysis criteria of procedural fairness, access, quality, and outcomes. These ratings were computed into an overall rating for each alternative from equitable to inequitable.
RESULTS
We found jurisprudence exams and provisional licensure have the best possibility of being equitable pathways to licensure, with potential impacts on the regulation of supervision and continuing education.
CONCLUSION
Anti-racism and social justice as praxis require social work as a profession to divest from competency-based testing to eliminate racism in our own professional policies.
Topics: Humans; Licensure; Social Work; Education, Continuing; Policy
PubMed: 38493307
DOI: 10.1080/26408066.2023.2284919 -
BMJ Open Aug 2020Social work is a key profession in the field of mental health worldwide and the profession has values that are aligned with a recovery paradigm. However, there are gaps...
INTRODUCTION
Social work is a key profession in the field of mental health worldwide and the profession has values that are aligned with a recovery paradigm. However, there are gaps in understanding how social workers are applying the recovery paradigm in practice. This study will scope and synthesise the literature related to recovery and social work practice in mental health and addictions. There will also be an exploration of best practices and gaps in recovery-oriented social work practice.
METHODS AND ANALYSIS
Using a scoping review framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley, we will conduct our search in five academic databases: PsycINFO, Medline, CINAHL Plus, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. Articles meeting inclusion criteria will be charted to extract relevant themes and analysed using a qualitative thematic analysis approach.
ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION
This review will provide relevant information about best practices and gaps in recovery-oriented social work practice in mental health and addictions. The study will inform the development of mental health curricula in social work programmes and clinical settings. Results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed journal and at conferences focusing on mental health, addictions, and social work education. Ethics approval is not required for this scoping review.
Topics: Behavior, Addictive; Curriculum; Humans; Mental Health; Research Design; Review Literature as Topic; Social Work
PubMed: 32819947
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037777 -
Optimising service users and carers involvement in nursing and social work pre-registration degrees.Nurse Education Today Dec 2021The awareness of the contribution of service users and carers' involvement in nursing and social work pre-registration degree education continues to grow. This study...
The awareness of the contribution of service users and carers' involvement in nursing and social work pre-registration degree education continues to grow. This study explored ways of optimising its beneficial outcomes to students, service users/carers and academic staff. A phenomenology qualitative approach was employed. The study sample was drawn from service users/carers involved in students' education, and adult nursing and social work degree students and academic staff. A total of 38 participants took part. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather views, which was then thematically analysed. This study identified factors that can optimise the beneficial outcomes of service users and carers' involvement to students, service users/carers and academic staff in Adult nursing and Social work pre-registration degree. The findings of this study support the value of service users' and carers' involvement in undergraduate nursing and social work education and offer strategies which support best practice, and optimise and sustain the efficacy and benefits of this approach in a higher education setting. An understanding of issues related to optimising service user and carer involvement may assist in the development of strategies that continue to make service users and carers' involvement in nursing and social work pre-registration degree effective and meaningful to students, service users/carers and academic staff.
Topics: Adult; Caregivers; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Humans; Social Work; Students, Nursing
PubMed: 34507258
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.105128