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Towards culturally competent practice in child and adolescent mental health
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 48(1), January 2005, pp.49-62.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The mental health needs of refugee and asylum-seeking children and adolescents are failing to be addressed. This article evaluates evidence from studies designed to address this omission, and describes a contemporary culturally competent model based on holistic, psycho-social principles of social work practice.
The attitudes of social work students and practicing psychiatric social workers toward the inclusion in the community of people with mental illness
- Author:
- SCHARTZ Chaya
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 2(1), 2003, pp.33-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study measured and compared the attitudes of social work students and practicing psychiatric social workers to the inclusion in the community of people with mental illness. The Community Living Attitude Scale Mental Illness (comprising the four subscales of Empowerment, Exclusion, Sheltering, and Similarity) was administered to a random sample of 68 Israeli BA social work students (first year: n = 35; third year: n = 33) and 28 practicing psychiatric social workers. Overall, the participants endorsed Empowerment and perceived the Similarity of persons with mental illness to themselves more than they agreed with the Exclusion attitude of segregating those persons from community life. First-year students rated Empowerment and Similarity significantly lower than did the third-year students and rated Sheltering significantly higher than did psychiatric social workers. Psychiatric social workers did not differ from third-year students and did not have stronger attitudinal commitment to the inclusion paradigm. They differed from first-year students only in the sheltering attitude; they showed lower support for sheltering people with mental illness. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Anti-discriminatory practice
- Author:
- THOMPSON Neil
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 208p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
Explores the main areas of discrimination - age, gender, race, disability - and considers the practice implications of developing an anti-oppressive approach to social work.
Anti-discriminatory practice
- Author:
- THOMPSON Neil
- Publisher:
- Palgrave/British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 194p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Explores the main areas of discrimination - age, gender, race, disability, and considers the practice implications of developing an anti-oppressive approach to social work.
Anti-discriminatory practice
- Author:
- THOMPSON Neil
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 191p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Explores the main areas of discrimination - age, gender, race, disability - and considers the practice implications of developing an anti-oppressive approach to social work.