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Caring for someone with cancer
- Author:
- BATTISON Toni
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 286p.
- Place of publication:
- London
With over 200 different types of cancer, the treatment and care for someone diagnosed with cancer will vary enormously. This book aims to help carers understand cancer and the basic treatments that are available. Other topics covered include how to cope with failing health, managing personal affairs, being a carer and ways to relieve stress.
Emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and personal accomplishment: the case of burnout among school social workers in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- TAM SHUI.KEE Tony, MONG Lilian
- Journal article citation:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, 12(2), December 2002, pp.76-94.
- Publisher:
- Times Academic
Describes the pattern of burnout of school social workers in a context of changes introduced by the Hong Kong Government to improve the cost-effectiveness of social welfare services. The responses of 190 school social workers to a self-administered questionnaire distributed through 32 agencies in Hong Kong showed that slightly over half the respondents were adjusting well in their job and only a small proportion could be clearly identified as 'burnouts'. However, a substantial proportion was found to exhibit a high level of emotional exhaustion or depersonalisation despite a high level of personal accomplishment. Findings suggest that appropriate measures should be undertaken by agencies and schools to prevent school social workers from experiencing burnout. As a development phenomenon, any early signs of burnout should be seriously looked into; for it would otherwise counteract the intended effects of any changes designed to enhance service effectiveness.
Borderline personality disorder and self-harm: living on the edge?
- Author:
- WOODBRIDGE Kim
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 144, November 2002, pp.36-39.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
Considers ways of understanding self-harm in the context of Borderline Personality Disorders.
Swimming with sharks
- Author:
- DAVIS Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 29.10.02, 2002, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a course which aims to give health professionals the tools they need to reduce tension between colleagues.
Bullly for you
- Author:
- CIGNO Katy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.8.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the impact of workplace bullying.
Stress management
- Author:
- WINGHAM Gaynor
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 14, June 2002, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Provides some advice for social workers on how to manage stress effectively.
Developing a typology of the 'duty to work', as experienced by lay persons with musculoskeletal disorders
- Authors:
- OSTLUND Gunnel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 11(2), April 2002, pp.150-158.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Musculoskeletal diagnoses account for the majority of cases of reduced work capacity. This article investigates lay persons’ strategies in relation to work and musculoskeletal disorders. Twenty interviews were conducted and analysed using grounded theory. A typology of self-presentations was developed. The interviewees’ self-presentations revealed a strong sense of a ‘duty to work’. This sense of duty took four different forms, leading us to categorise persons expressing particular forms as workaholics, work manics, workhorses or relaxed workers. Relaxed workers seem to have the best prognosis for recovery as they had a confident self-agency and worked to fulfil their own needs rather than those of others. This was in contrast to work manics, with an uncertain self-agency and driven to work by others’ needs. In conclusion, awareness of such linguistic forms as self-attributions and idiomatic phrases provides an opportunity to identify and talk about individual’s self-agency and driving forces in the recovery process.
Trying to understand why horrible things happen: attribution, shame, and symptom development following sexual abuse
- Authors:
- FEIRING Candice, TASKA Lynn, CHEN Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Child Maltreatment, 7(1), February 2002, pp.26-41.
- Publisher:
- Sage
...measures of general attribution style for everyday events, shame for the abuse, and symptoms of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and self-esteem. Parents and teachers rated behavior problems. Abuse-specific internal attributions were consistently related to higher levels of psychopathology and were particularly important for predicting PTSD symptoms and parent and teacher reports
Things are a bit fraught
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.02, 2002, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports how increasing pressure at work coupled with low status have combined to introduce higher levels of stress for people working in the social care sector.
Psychosocial factors at work personality traits and depressive symptoms
- Authors:
- PATERNITI S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 181, August 2002, pp.111-116.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This French study examines the relationship between psychosocial factors at work and changes in depressive symptoms, taking personality traits into account. The role of occupational characteristics, psychosocial stress and personality traits in predicting an increase of depressive symptoms was evaluated in a large sample of men and women working at a French National Electric and Gas Company