Social Workers in Hospitals & Medical Centers
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Year : 2011
Area : Social Work
Social workers in hospitals and medical centers provide frontline services to patients with conditions spanning the entire health care continuum. According to a national survey of licensed social workers, hospitals are the most common primary employment setting for health care social workers (Whitaker, Weismiller, Clark & Wilson, 2006). For purposes of this document, the term “hospital” refers to the variety of general and specialized acute care medical facilities. Hospital social workers practice in increasingly specialized environments, and are frequently assigned to specific medical units that are based on diagnosis, age, or gender (Gibelman, 2005). (NASW Center for Workforce Studies & Social Work Practice, Social Workers in Hospitals & Medical Centers)
Counselling Skills for Social Work
Author : Lisa Miller
Year : 2006
Area : Social Work
Counselling and social work have long been connected. Counselling is defined by Feltham and Dryden (1993) as a ‘principled relationship’in which practitioners draw upon a knowledge-base of psychological theories. As counselling is service-user-led and social work is governed by legislative and policy frameworks that often lead us to take a directive stance with service users, referring to ‘counselling skills’ in social work practice seems most fitting. The Barclay Report clarified the use of counselling skills in social work to be a means by which service users are assisted through the process of personal change or change of their environments. Counselling skills should also be used in social work practice to help people tolerate the emotional impact of their world (Barclay Committee, 1982). This also comes into conflict with some forms of ‘therapy’, in that emotional healing is not always possible without changes to an individual’s environment. This is especially so in relation to abuse. This is dis- cussed throughout this book, again reinforcing the use of ‘skills’ as the most relevant term to describe such ‘therapeutic’activity within social work practice. Counselling and counselling skills are governed under the Ethical Framework of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). (Lisa Miller, Counselling skills for Social Work)
Validity and reliability of the Self- reporting Questionnaire 20 items in Vietnam
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