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Social Work in Health Care 1988Master's level students, new workers and agency and academic faculty are challenged to maintain social work practice standards and retain traditional values and...
Master's level students, new workers and agency and academic faculty are challenged to maintain social work practice standards and retain traditional values and identifications in a climate of diminishing resources for social work services. Pressure for third party reimbursement, accelerated demands for self-directed and autonomous clinical social work practice in new systems of care characterize this climate. This paper addresses issues and dilemmas attendant to these changes for which we seek solutions. Some suggestions are offered. Some issues are posed as questions since answers are evolving and outcomes are uncertain.
Topics: Forecasting; Humans; Mental Health Services; Professional Competence; Research; Social Work
PubMed: 3232091
DOI: 10.1300/J010v13n03_03 -
British Journal of Social Work Mar 2002
Topics: Codes of Ethics; Ethics, Research; Health Services Research; Humans; Social Work
PubMed: 12774784
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/32.2.239 -
Social Work in Health Care Oct 2014
Introduction to the special issue: maintaining client-centered practice in a computer-centered world: the place for technology in social work practice-challenges, opportunities, and future steps.
Topics: Humans; Patient-Centered Care; Social Work; Technology
PubMed: 25321929
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2014.972251 -
Journal of Gerontological Social Work 2013Since 1998, the Hartford Partnership Program in Aging Education (HPPAE) has been implemented in over 70 graduate social work programs. This study examined whether...
Since 1998, the Hartford Partnership Program in Aging Education (HPPAE) has been implemented in over 70 graduate social work programs. This study examined whether program and individual student characteristics are associated with students' knowledge, skills, and values in aging. We conducted a secondary analysis of national program evaluation data. Results from hierarchical linear models indicated greater gains in knowledge of aging among full-time students, as well as students in programs that had defined field rotation models and/or that made greater use of geriatric social work competencies. Implications for efforts to enhance graduate social work education in aging are discussed.
Topics: Aged; Education, Graduate; Educational Measurement; Female; Humans; Male; Professional Competence; Program Evaluation; Quality Improvement; Social Work; United States
PubMed: 23600603
DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2013.771807 -
Social Work in Public Health 2009
Topics: Public Health; Residence Characteristics; Social Work
PubMed: 19266404
DOI: 10.1080/19371910802595323 -
Health & Social Work Feb 2004
Topics: Empathy; Humans; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Professional-Family Relations; Professional-Patient Relations; Social Work; Terminal Care
PubMed: 15101386
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/29.1.3 -
Social Work in Health Care 2001Australian Social Work, over recent years, has been challenged to develop a standardised and accurate classification system for social work interventions. The need for...
Australian Social Work, over recent years, has been challenged to develop a standardised and accurate classification system for social work interventions. The need for such a system arose through changes in funding arrangements based on the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) treated within hospitals. In Australian hospitals, the mix of DRGs treated became known as its 'casemix.' These new funding arrangements made it necessary for Social Work to classify and measure activity with each patient to ensure continuing resource allocation to social work services in hospitals. A national Casemix Network was formed under the auspice of the Australian Association of Social Workers to develop a classification system. The Network worked collaboratively with other allied health professions to produce a generic framework for professional activities and also developed a classification of social work interventions. These activity classifications have been incorporated into procedure coding in Australian hospitals. The challenges associated with casemix funding required Social Work to address a number of philosophical and methodological issues related to classification of professional activities to ensure an outcome that recognised the unique contribution of Social Work to health care.
Topics: Australia; Case Management; Diagnosis-Related Groups; Humans; Outcome Assessment, Health Care; Social Work
PubMed: 12219766
DOI: 10.1080/00981380109517025 -
Health & Social Work Nov 1996This article describes a model for social work education and research established by a school of social work and the social work department of a metropolitan medical...
This article describes a model for social work education and research established by a school of social work and the social work department of a metropolitan medical center. Social workers in the health care setting were surveyed on the knowledge and skills they needed to help them respond to new directions for the department. Results of the study identified a number of themes for staff development and research. Implications of the study, together with a description of the education and research programs developed to respond to these themes, are presented.
Topics: Academic Medical Centers; Cooperative Behavior; Curriculum; Data Collection; Education, Continuing; Humans; Research Design; Social Work; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 8911958
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/21.4.267 -
Social Work Nov 1997The profession of social work has a unique role in preventing and treating alcohol and other drug problems. In human services settings shared beliefs or ideologies of...
The profession of social work has a unique role in preventing and treating alcohol and other drug problems. In human services settings shared beliefs or ideologies of care are expected to have substantial influence over the way in which problems are perceived and the types of service technologies used. Thus, it is important that social work professionals be cognizant of what beliefs they hold and how their beliefs about substance abuse treatment and prevention may affect practice. This article discusses current ideologies of care in the substance abuse arena, including the disease/abstinence, psychosocial, ecological, and harm-reduction approaches. In addition, this article examines managers' beliefs about substance abuse programs to determine if there are differences between those who have a social work background (that is, hold at least one social work degree) and those who do not. Suggestions for social work practice and future research also are provided.
Topics: Administrative Personnel; Adult; Attitude of Health Personnel; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Male; Organizational Objectives; Philosophy; Social Work; Substance Abuse Treatment Centers; Substance-Related Disorders; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 9414633
DOI: 10.1093/sw/42.6.552 -
Social Work Oct 2018Many first-year field students and new practitioners enter the "fog of practice" seeking a strong mentor who will teach them to survive and thrive in the practice world....
Many first-year field students and new practitioners enter the "fog of practice" seeking a strong mentor who will teach them to survive and thrive in the practice world. They are armed with much social work-related ideology but perhaps too little organizational knowledge and savvy. This challenge may be traced back to another historical professional debate: the imbalance between micro and macro social work education and training. This article addresses the challenge by introducing the overarching competency of organizational empathy, defined as an understanding of the practice environment one occupies. The major objective of this article is to help bridge an academe-practice knowledge gap, thereby giving the social work practitioner enhanced opportunities for broader organizational influence, collaboration, and leadership.
Topics: Clinical Competence; Curriculum; Empathy; Humans; Leadership; Mentoring; Models, Organizational; Social Work
PubMed: 30113662
DOI: 10.1093/sw/swy034