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Reflectivity in social work practice with clients with mental-health illness: promise and challenge in social work education
- Author:
- YIP Kam-Shing
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 49(2), March 2006, pp.243-255.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The author's nine years' experience in developing social work students' practical reflectivity in working with clients with mental illness is described in this article. By means of various teaching strategies, students' different levels of reflectivity were developed. Promise and challenges to social work education are also discussed.
A suggested push model for interpreting the dilemmas of institutional care, community care and family care of mental-health consumers
- Author:
- YIP Kam-Shing
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 49(6), November 2006, pp.805-817.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article suggests a push model for analyzing dilemmas between institutional care, community care and family care of mental-health consumers. In the USA community care is overloaded by inappropriate de-institutionalization. In Hong Kong, family caregivers are severely burdened by poor community care and highly institutionalized services.