Social Work Education: Ensuring Its Viability into the Future
AbstractThe most common type of employer for social workers is a private, nonprofit, or charitable organization (34.3% of all social workers); however 41% of social workers work for the government when combining together federal, state, and local governments (The George Washington University Health Workforce Institute, Profile of the social work workforce,http://www.socialserviceworkforce.org/resources/profile-social-work-workforce,2017). Given these organizations focus on individuals who are indigent, have serious behavioral health challenges and are typically covered through Medicaid and/or Medicare, ensuring social work...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Trauma Informed Practice and Care: Implications for Field Instruction
This article summarizes the evolution in thinking about trauma and its impact on those who have experienced it. The nature of trauma-informed (TI) practice and care and implications for field instruction are then explained. This discussion is based upon the assumption that skills of social work field instruction that already have an evidence base lay the foundation for TI field instruction. Composite case examples drawn from the author ’s experiences as a field liaison, a practitioner who works with trauma survivors, and an instructor in the generalist practice curriculum illustrate methods and skills of field instructio...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Process of Facilitating Case Formulations in Relational Clinical Supervision
AbstractThis paper explores the supervisory process in relation to the ongoing challenge of developing (and re-developing) a case formulation. We adopt a relational approach to clinical practice and correspondingly to the supervisory domain. We argue that a relational approach to clinical practice firmly fits with social work values, including authenticity, mutuality and collaboration. We address typical challenges inherent in attaining and maintaining a relational formulation in the supervisory relationship. (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Demoralization During Medical Illness: A Case of Common Factors Treatment
AbstractA serious physical illness can become the defining aspect of a person ’s life. If a belief develops that the illness cannot be resolved, either through medical care or one’s own coping efforts, then a person can develop demoralization, which is defined as a pervasive feeling of defeat, hopelessness, and powerlessness. Demoralization involves a depressed mood but d iffers from a major depressive episode in that demoralization does not exhibit the generalized anhedonia found in major depression. Instead, demoralization has a singular precipitating factor causing the patient’s hopelessness, the illness. A patien...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Black Perspective in Clinical Social Work
AbstractGiven the persistence of oppression in contemporary society, social workers may expect to encounter social bias in the clinical setting. On the one hand, clients who identify as a member of a disadvantaged social group may report experiences of oppression accompanied by emotional, behavioral, and physical responses (Carter in Couns Psychol 35(1):13 –105,2007; Sue in Microaggressions and marginality: manifestation, dynamics, and impact, Wiley, Hoboken,2010). On the other hand, those who are members of a historically privileged social group may present with negative affective and behavioral responses associated wit...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - June 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
