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The sharing of roles between a social worker and members of a self-help group for mental ex-patients in Australia
- Author:
- KAM-SHING Yip
- Journal article citation:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, 8(2), September 1998, pp.30-50.
- Publisher:
- Times Academic
Describes a qualitative study on the collaboration of social workers and the members of GROW in South Australia. By means of participant observation in two self-help groups of GROW, the author discovered that professionally trained social workers collaborated well with members in the self-help groups as they had similar backgrounds and experiences. Also, the social workers' roles in running these two groups were shared by the members who took up roles as initiators, facilitators, leaders, evaluators, organisers and problem solvers with these self-help groups. The strengths and weaknesses of this model for the rehabilitation of mental ex-patients and its implications on social work interventions are also described.
Present dangers
- Author:
- McNAMARA Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.10.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at why disabled people are vulnerable to depression and asks whether social care workers should be trained to spot it.
Moving child mental health from the margins to the core
- Author:
- FOSTER Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, June 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Practice and attitudes to young people with mental health needs are changing. The author looks back to social work experiences which illustrate how social workers can overlook their problems, and forward to the need for more informed practice.
Threatened by stability
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.3.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Finds out how two social workers tried to help an aggressive women seen as untreatable by psychiatric services.
A brave face is not enough
- Author:
- STEELE Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.9.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how social workers who suffer from mental illness face prejudice and sometimes unfair dismissal at the hands of their employers. Looks at how this intolerant attitude forces staff to hide psychological problems.
A question of definition
- Author:
- TICKNER Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, July 1998, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Social workers' attempts to help those who cannot make decisions for themselves have been historically plagued by a dearth of appropriate legislation, guidance and definition. Recounts how BASW's long attempts to change things are finally achieving results.
Learning together
- Author:
- REYNOLD Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(8), April 1998, p.276.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Discusses the Open University's new course on mental health for people working in health and social services in which mutual understanding and the user perspective are central elements.
Steering a course between extremes
- Author:
- DUGGAN Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.4.98, 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Mental health services are again under the scrutiny of the politicians as the government rethinks community care. Assesses the impact of change on social workers.
Better than cure
- Authors:
- INMAN Kendra, MUIJEN Matt, HOLLOWS Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.2.98, 1998, pp.18-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how the failure of social services departments to move from crisis intervention to preventive practice has been emphasised repeatedly. Asks how far prevention can be expected to go. The first author reports on the dilemma facing professionals as they try to juggle risk and devise realistic prevention strategies for children and older people; the second outlines the problems facing mental health services; and the third examines how to make preventive strategies work effectively.
Prozac, families and the law: implications for social work practice
- Authors:
- MASON Susan E., POLLACK Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 26(3), 1998, pp.317-332.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
Prozac has been on the market for more than 10 years and has become one of the most heavily utilised medications in the United States; approximately 17 million prescriptions have been written. Along with its popularity, there have been a multitude of legal cases citing the use of Prozac to explain a variety of behaviours. Social workers in clinical practice need to understand the legal implications of having clients who are taking the medication. Reviews twenty-eight appellate court cases in the USA involving families and Prozac between 1991 and 1997 and discusses their clinical practice implications.