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The social worker and psychotropic medication: toward effective collaboration with mental health clients, families and providers
- Authors:
- BENTLEY K., WALSH J
- Publisher:
- Wadsworth
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 305p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stamford, CT
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Offers aspiring and practicing social workers information and guidance on medication issues when working with people with mental health problems. Contains sections on: history and overview of social work roles in medication management; defining effective collaboration between users, families, and service providers; a primer on psychopharmacology (including data on specific medications for specific disorders); knowledge and skills for psychosocial interventions; and future directions.
Establishing individualized goals in a supported education intervention: program influences on goal setting and attainment
- Authors:
- COLLINS Mary Elizabeth, MOWBRAY Carol T., BYBEE Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 9(4), July 1999, pp.483-507.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Support for goal setting and attainment is a frequent component of social work interventions aimed at fostering client growth. This study investigated goal setting and attainment in the Michigan Supported Education Research Project, an intervention that provides support for adults with psychiatric disabilities to engage in postsecondary education. Results indicate increased complexity of goal statements over time. Interventions can influence the goals that are set by individuals. Because of its importance to social work practice, researchers and practitioners should pay more explicit attention to goal setting.
Involuntary clients in social work practice: a research-based approach
- Authors:
- IVANOFF Andre, BLYTHE Betty J., TRIPODI Tony
- Publisher:
- Aldine de Gruyter
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 252p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Presents concepts, principles and techniques for working effectively with involuntary users in a variety of settings, including child protection services and mental health.
The recovery framework as a way of understanding families' responses to mental illness: balancing different needs and recovery journeys
- Authors:
- WYDER Marianne, BLAND Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 67(2), 2014, pp.179-196.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Personal recovery is a guiding principle in mental health and suggests that consumers own and are responsible for their own recovery. An exclusive focus on the recovery of those living with mental illness challenges the relevance of recovery concepts to families’ experiences. This paper extends these recovery principles to consider if the recovery framework is helpful in understanding families’ experiences. We distinguished the family's recovery task by recovery-oriented support and the family's own recovery journey. By applying recovery frameworks developed by Davidson et al. and Leamy et al. to these two tasks, we were able to highlight similarities and points of tension between consumer and family recovery tasks. The tasks for families include: (1) maintaining hope; (2) reconnecting; (3) overcoming secondary trauma; and (4) journeying from carer to family. Family response to mental illness is a dynamic, multilayered process rather than a static and enduring role of caregiving. The recovery framework offers an alternative way to understand a family's response to mental illness and suggests possibilities for social work practice with families. (Edited publisher abstract)
The value of everything: social work and its importance in the field of mental health
- Author:
- GILBERT Peter
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 127p.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
Considers the value of social work in the light of what users and carers want from mental health services; the value base of the new policies for reform; the role of the social worker in different settings; and ways of taking these values and skills forward into new settings. Also looks at: the role of the approved social workers; the value of social work in management and leadership; and the future of social work and mental health services.
User-friendly assessment of need
- Authors:
- SLADE Mike, THORNICROFT Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.8.99, 1999, pp.52-53.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This report offers a quick and easy-to-use questionnaire for assessing the needs of mental health service users.
Youth and provider perspectives on social service providers' roles in mental health services
- Authors:
- STIFFMAN Arlene Rubin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 25(3), 1999, pp.83-97.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article presents the results of an American study carried out among people using the Youth Services Project in St. Louis City, and focusing on their use of mental health services. Although the youths showed a high need for mental health services, less than half of these had received them. Past contact with a social service provider (not a teacher or doctor) significantly predicted care for mental health problems. Social service professionals served more youths than did any other profession.
Social work with the impossible client
- Author:
- THOMPSON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 8(3), 1996, pp.45-52.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores some of the problems encountered in social work practice with clients who are difficult to engage. It is suggested that change is not always possible and that what can be more important than seeking change can be the continuance of a responsive and consistent social work relationship. A consideration is given to psychiatric definitions of personality disorder and the helpfulness, or not, of this diagnosis.
Working with interpreters in mental health
- Editors:
- TRIBE Rachel, RAVAL Hitesh
- Publisher:
- Brunner-Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 270p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The purpose of this handbook is to help practitioners develop better ways of helping service users who need an interpreter. The book discusses interpreters in medical consultations, issues of language provision in health care services, the application of theoretical frameworks, and the work of interpreters in a variety of practical settings.
Gender and community care: social work and social care perspectives
- Author:
- ORME Joan
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 276p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Discusses the gender assumptions behind social work practice and community care, and reveals the impact these have on men and women as providers and recipients of care. Outlines feminist theory and relates this to the development of policy and practice in community care. Goes on to explore how assumptions coloured by gender have influenced services to different user groups, such as people with mental health problems, older people, and disabled people. Ends by examining how good practice can be developed in regard to these issues.