China
Africa
Explore chapters and articles related to this topic
The First-Episode of Psychosis and Suicide in Schizophrenia
Published in Ragy R. Girgis, Gary Brucato, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Understanding and Caring for People with Schizophrenia, 2020
Ragy R. Girgis, Gary Brucato, Jeffrey A. Lieberman
A. continued to receive treatment at our outpatient clinic. Although she did not return to nursing school, she chose to pursue psychotherapy. She received a Master’s degree in social work and went on to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She joined a clinic for low-income patients as a psychotherapist. She felt very fulfilled by her work.
The Interdisciplinary Team
Published in Stephen R. Connor, Hospice and Palliative Care, 2017
The role of counseling is most often associated with the team’s clinical social worker. Social workers are responsible for assessing the family system, including levels of emotional distress and coping styles. They have much information to impart and are often the ones to address painful issues such as treatment wishes, advance directives, and funeral planning. Nurses also play a prominent role in counseling. It is the nurse who does the teaching of physical care and signs and symptoms of approaching death. Nurses view counseling as a major intervention, and many nursing diagnoses include correcting knowledge deficits. As an extension of the nurse, the home health aide is often called on to provide emotional support as the patient or family processes the information and emotions surrounding serious illness and death.
The Transplant Experience of Liver Recipients: Ethical Issues and Practice Implications
Published in Gary Rosenberg, Andrew Weissman, Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings, 2016
In summary, the needs of liver transplant recipients, according to these findings, encompass all the biopsychosocial spheres of their lives. The findings similarly suggest that the role and function of social workers in transplant units span inpatient and outpatient units as well as community-based service networks. The clinical social work strategies needed by the patients in this study include clinical counseling and education with patients and their families, proactive networking with inpatient and outpatient staff, and with other aftercare providers. The findings also suggest that health care services in transplant may be constrained by health care economics as in other health care settings. However, in transplant, these constraints combine with organ scarcity, advanced technology and pharmaceuticals, and high costs. The needs of transplant recipients are, therefore, extensive in scope and are long-term. Similarly, the social work strategies required to meet these patients’needs are multiple and extend beyond organizational walls.
Social Workers Critical to Honoring Commitments to Residents and Families in Long-Term Care
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2023
Nancy Kusmaul, Amy Restorick Roberts, Paige Hector, Colleen Galambos, Sheryl Zimmerman, Mercedes Bern-Klug, Robert Connolly, Xiaochuan Wang, Chris Herman
The NASEM Report provided several important recommendations (2B, 2C, and 2F) to ensure an adequate number of trained, professional social workers in long-term care and strengthen the professional training of the nursing home social workers who are responsible for day-to-day care of all residents. The NASEM Report also recommends expanding behavioral health services access by adding clinical social workers and advance practice registered nurses to the providers eligible to provide and bill for behavioral health services. Clinical social workers would be different from facility social workers, as clinical social work is a specific subspecialty, focusing on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness, emotional, and other behavioral disturbances and may include individual, group and family therapy. Clinical social workers are required to have additional certification above basic social work licensure level in the state in which they practice (NASW, n.d.).
Coaching MSW Students on Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) Using Simulation-Based Learning (SBL): Developing Competencies in Clinical Social Work Practice
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2021
Eunjung Lee, Kathryn Bowles, Toula Kourgiantakis
Clinical social work is a specialized practice area in social work that includes assessment, intervention, and prevention services to enhance physical and mental health, as well as emotional and behavioral well-being using various therapy modalities (National Association of Social Workers [NASW], 2005). Among the NASW Standards for Clinical Social Work in Social Work Practice (2005), Standard 2. Specialized Practice Skills and Intervention requires social workers to “demonstrate specialized knowledge and skills for effective clinical intervention” with clients (p. 4). Additionally, the most recent version of the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards by the Council of Social Work Education (Council on Social Work Education [CSWE], 2015) explains that holistic competence includes a “demonstration of competence,” and it is “informed by knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive and affective processes that includes the social worker’s critical thinking, affective reactions, and exercise of judgment in regard to unique practice situations” (p. 6). For social work educators, teaching clinical practice to social work students is an ongoing challenge because of the need for students to demonstrate knowledge and skills, as well as the limited opportunities to observe this in the classroom. Another challenge for educators is selecting the most suitable models among a plethora of specialized evidence-informed treatment models and integrating this into the curriculum to build clinical practice skills within a classroom setting.
Essential Knowledge for Clinical Social Work Practice: Social Work Faculty Perspectives
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2019
Participants distinguished between the P-i-E and multi-level analysis and intervention although the concepts seem to overlap. The distinction is that the P-i-E reflects an epistemology whereas multi-level analysis and intervention reflect a methodology. Half of the study participants stated that attention to the micro (individual, intrapsychic, and/or familial) level and the meso (community) level or the macro (institutional and/or policy) level (Bronfenbrenner, 1977; Kirk & Okazawa-Rey, 2007) or a combination of all three was unique to clinical social work. Jose highlights that clinical social work extends beyond a focus on a micro-level, individual analysis but to multi-level analysis and intervention. Traditionally when you say clinical social work, people mean psychotherapy and here we teach that is one of the roles of the clinical social worker. The clinical social worker is someone who works in direct practice with individuals [micro], families, couples, groups [meso] and as a change agent, either in the organization or in the community [macro].