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Well-being of asylum seeking children
- Author:
- CHASE Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.7.08, 2008, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Every year some 3,000 children and young people arrive on their own to seek asylum in the UK. The Thomas Coram Research Unit explored their emotional well-being and identified the factors that either helped or created difficulties for them. The study involved discussions with 54 children and young people from a total of 18 countries. Interviews were also conducted with over 30 social care, health, education and voluntary sector professionals. This article summaries the main findings and there implications for professional practice with this group of young people.
Controversies in psychiatric services in Hong Kong: social workers' superiority and inferiority complexes
- Author:
- YIP Kam-Shing
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 47(2), April 2004, pp.240-258.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The article reveals the results of research done by means of interviews of 63 social workers in psychiatric services in Hong Kong. The ways that social workers defined, perceived and performed psychotherapy for people with mental illness were explored. The findings showed that because of the deprofessionalized context, social workers in these psychiatric services had either superiority or inferiority complexes about providing psychotherapy. The article also contains the structured interview guide used.
Is social work's door open to people recovering from psychiatric disabilities?
- Author:
- STROMWALL Layne K.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 47(1), January 2002, pp.75-83.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Social workers are the major providers of mental health services in the United States, yet the profession has been reluctant to include recovering consumers in its ranks. This article contrasts social work's history focus on the deficits believed to be inherent in colleagues' history of psychiatric disorder with an empowerment perspective. The article describes perceived risks and benefits to clients when the social workers has a history of a psychiatric disorder. It reviews recovering consumer's successful roles as paraprofessionals in mental services delivery as a demonstration of the strengths consumers bring to the mental health field. Finally, it identifies barriers to social work employment faced by the social worker who has a history of a psychiatric disability.
Serving the need inside
- Author:
- BRYANT Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, August 2000, p.8.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author asks how well equipped mental health professionals are to help their clients and shares his concern about the lack of emphasis on self-awareness in social work training.
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.
Clean-up operation
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.6.97, 1997, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses a social worker's dilemma over an elderly man who is neglecting himself but is adamant that he does not have a mental health problem.
Bridge over troubled waters
- Author:
- BELL Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 8.12.94, 1994, p.10.
Providing housing for people with mental health problems often stretches scarce resources to the limit. Looks at current developments in a number of SSDs.
Requirements and guidance for the training of social workers to be considered for appointment as Mental Health Officers under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984
- Author:
- CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SOCIAL WORK
- Publisher:
- Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Requirements and guidance for the training of social workers in Northern Ireland to be considered for approval under Mental Health Legislation
- Author:
- CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SOCIAL WORK
- Publisher:
- Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- London
'Like bees round the honeypot' social work responses to parents with mental health needs
- Authors:
- HUGMAN Richard, PHILLIPS Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 6(3), 1992, pp.193-205.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
When service users with mental health needs also are parents social work, along with other professions, often has tended to separate these roles, with unhelpful consequences. This article reports research which looked at the views of parents with mental health needs concerning professional responses, focusing particularly on social work. It examines their experiences of parenting and mental health difficulties in relation to social workers' responses to these two areas of their lives, and suggests that social workers must address aspects together to provide appropriate responses.