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Medical model on top
- Author:
- METTERI Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.02, 2002, p.48.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at Finnish mental health care policy where the medical model in psychiatry has been strengthened. Argues that it is now up to staff to move towards more collaborative methods of working.
Shyness and social phobia: a social work perspective on a problem in living
- Author:
- WALSH Joseph
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 27(2), May 2002, pp.137-144.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The author argues that social phobia can be conceptualized from a social work perspective as an extreme shyness that can be overcome with cognitive learning and behavioural therapy. Reviews the biopsychosocial causes of social phobia and presents a summary of cognitive and behavioural interventions withe empirically demonstrated effectiveness.
An interview with Joyce Edward: exemplary clinician, advocate, and scholar
- Author:
- MEYER William S.
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 30(3), Autumn 2002, pp.311-330.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This article features an interview with Joyce Edward who is recognized for her many extraordinary contributions to clinical social work. Joyce has co-written or co-edited three exceptional books for the social work clinician, she has been an esteemed teacher and a vocal activist for quality mental health care. In this interview Joyce reflects on family influences, her work as a social caseworker, the psychoanalytic luminaries with whom she trained, her concerns about the clinical education of today's social work students, and finally, her perspective on managed mental health care.
Policy prescriptions
- Author:
- DUGGAN Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.2.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how mental health users and practitioners can create new policy and practice within the confines of care trusts and medical models of health.
Clinical social work practice: a cognitive-integrative perspective
- Author:
- BERLIN Sharon
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 419p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
This text presents a cognitive perspective on social work clinical practice that emphasises the role of the environment in shaping personal meaning. This perspective combines cognitive psychology's internal focus on how people think about themselves with a look outward toward the environment. It draws on a number of theoretical approaches to explain how the mind works and integrates these perspectives within a framework that suggests that people operate according to their sense of what things mean. The theoretical grounding for this cognitive-integrative approach is drawn from a range of neurological, social, psychological, and social work theories.
Revisiting the relationship between social work and law enforcement
- Author:
- SLAGHT Evelyn F.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Community Practice, 10(2), 2002, pp.23-35.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philapelphia, USA
Increasingly, law enforcement officers are becoming involved in community roles that require knowledge and sensitivity to social problems beyond their normal training. Social workers can be involved in the training, education, and resourcedevelopment necessary to prevent incarceration and the escalation of mental health problems officers encounter. Innovative team efforts in the community are elaborated as a product of the inclusion of social work courses in police training where officers are instructed in collaborative responses to community crises.
Constructing mental health services for looked after children
- Authors:
- STREET Eddy, DAVIES Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 26(4), Winter 2002, pp.65-75.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The authors argue that, despite the number of government measures aimed at meeting the mental health needs of looked after children, there has been a lack of integration of models of 'good practice' among childcare and mental health professionals. Taking into consideration the 'tiered model' recommended by the NHS Health Advisory Service report, the authors advocate a developmental approach through the implementation of a multi-disciplinary service that combines the best of psychiatric, psychological, social work and child care perspectives.
The changing role of the social worker in the mental health system
- Author:
- AVIRAM Uri
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 35(1/2), 2002, pp.615-632.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The purpose of this article is to discuss the role of the social work profession in the mental health service arena. It analyses the changing mental health environment and the challenges facing social work. It stresses that the profession must adapt to the dramatic changes that have been taking place since the advent of deinstitutionalisation and the need for community care for mentally ill persons. Historical analysis of the social work profession shows that its involvement in the mental health field has started during the early stages of the development of theprofession. Psychiatric social work has been considered a prestigious area of practicewithin the profession. Historically, social workers in the mental health field rarely challenged the dominance of the psychiatric profession. This position seems to have restrained social work from providing its full potential contribution to thisfield of practice and to the population it served. The article discusses factors that facilitate or hinder the profession from appropriatelyadapting to the current service needs of the mentally ill persons, their families andcommunities, providing quality mental health and social services to this population and society as well.