Editorial: The Use of Simulation in Advancing Clinical Social Work Education and Practice
(Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Simulation-Based Continuing Education in Health Care Social Work: A Case Study of Clinical Training Innovation
This article describes an innovative program, the Partnership for Excellence in Social Work Practice in Health Care ( “the Partnership”), which provides a professional development opportunity for health care social workers and contributes to the larger mission of providing comprehensive and coordinated care to high-risk populations. The Partnership aims to help social workers respond to the current challenges o f health care practice through simulation learning as an educational reflective practice technique. Through this program, social workers at all levels of experience have the opportunity to practice real-world sc...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Telemental Health Use and Refugee Mental Health Providers Following COVID-19 Pandemic
AbstractThe outbreak of COVID-19 has increased stress, fear, and anxiety for many people. At the same time, social isolation restrictions have disrupted most in-person mental health services. Many mental health providers are adapting to the crisis by utilizing telemental health. However, the literature is scant about how to most effectively utilize telemental health practices with refugee clients, many of whom do not speak English and require an interpreter, may have limited technological proficiency or access, and/or have additional case management needs and coordination as part of their treatment plan. The purpose of thi...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Guidelines for Integrating Live Supervision in Simulation-Based Clinical Education: An Example for Teaching Motivational Interviewing
AbstractDuring the past 20 years, social work education has built a bridge between the classroom and field using client simulation to learn clinical skills. This paper outlines an innovative model of simulation that incorporates LS used to teach motivational interviewing (MI). In addition, guidelines with specific steps for teaching MI with simulation and LS are discussed. Unfortunately, most present day simulation models leave out methods to instruct and supervise students in real time. When implementing clinical simulations there is little opportunity to correct a trainee’s behavior or to practice a new skill at t he...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Guidelines for Using Simulation for Online Teaching and Learning of Clinical Social Work Practice in the Time of COVID
AbstractDue to COVID 19, Monash University ’s Social Work Department moved all clinical practice skills teaching in the Master of Social Work (graduate entry level) fully online using synchronous audio-visual conferencing platform Zoom for the first time from March to June 2020. The innovations associated with this move included the develo pment of clinical practice laboratories (CPLs) to prepare 154 students for a modified version of an Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) and their first field education practicum. The use of simulated clients to facilitate experiential learning of active listening skills, ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Using Evidence-Based Learning Theories to Guide the Development of Virtual Simulations
AbstractTechnology-enhanced training such as virtual simulations can be effective only to the extent evidence-based principles of learning are integrated into their training platforms. Assuming skill acquisition is the target of training, programs should include time and space for repeated practice opportunities structured through evidence-based learning theories (Amodeo et al. in Adm Soc Work 33:423 –438, 2009). Essential learning attributes derived from Cognitive Load Theory (Sweller in Cognit Sci 12:257–285, 1988) and the Theory of Deliberate Practice (Ericsson et al. in Psychol Rev 100:363–406, 1993) can effectiv...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - May 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Teaching and Learning in a Time of Corona: A Social Work Experience
Abstract
Preliminary results of a qualitative study of the lived experience of teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic are presented. An instructor, a program director and five doctoral students in different stages of their coursework and dissertation proposal development, wrote a reflective journal. Participants varied in their levels of familiarity with technology-assisted education, personal backgrounds and circumstances including work and family responsibilities. Participants ’ journals documenting their reactions, struggles and coping since the abrupt move of the university from face to face to online ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - April 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Virtual Reality: An Immersive Tool for Social Work Students to Interact with Community Environments
AbstractResearch supports various benefits of using virtual reality (VR) within social work education. As a pilot study, this paper describes the impact of a 360 VR simulation designed to immerse students at a New York school of social work in a typical New York City neighborhood, with the goal of helping them learn about how its history, resources, demographics, and physical space impacts its inhabitants. This, in turn, is intended to support novice students in gaining familiarity with new social contexts and communities, and in connecting macro and micro nuances with practice. An overview of the role of VR in social work...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Contact Tracing for COVID-19: The Use of Motivational Interviewing and the Role of Social Work
This article describes contact tracing, its use in other diseases, the role of MI, psychosocial issues that contact tracers m ay encounter, and how social work can respond to these needs. A sample dialogue of contact tracing using MI is presented with a discussion of the content and skills used in the process. (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Context Matters: Differential Effects of Discrimination by Environmental Context on Depressive Symptoms Among College Students of Color
In this study we draw on a longitudinal dataset of Black, Latinx, and Asian students in higher education and use the microaggr ession framework to distinguish between the types of reported subtle experiences with discrimination, including (1) classroom-based, or perceived discrimination or discomfort in the classroom; (2) microassaults, or verbal assaults; (3) discomfort, or perceived discomfort on campus because of race, ( 4) criminality, which refers to both being stopped by University police and (5) refusal to acknowledge intra-racial differences, which here describes experiences with intraracial microaggressions. Our f...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 9, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Revitalizing Alfred Adler: An Echo for Equality
AbstractThe work of Alfred Adler ’s Individual Psychology arguably applies to contemporary social work practice and education. The tenets of Individual Psychology are reviewed in the context of a historical sketch of Adler's work as a medical doctor, psychoanalyst, and colleague of Freud. His eventual divergence from psychoa nalysis to begin his own psychological and education movement which focused on social reform is emphasized. Individual Psychology is examined in detail including original case examples demonstrating his influence on and compatibility with contemporary social work theories. Empirical evidence...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meeting the Practice Challenges of COVID-19: MSW Students ’ Perceptions of E-Therapy and the Therapeutic Alliance
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic prompted a radical shift in social work practice. Overnight, social work intervention models provided in-person gave way to the utilization of Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate direct practice in virtual environments (e-therapy). Social work ’s slow acceptance of e-therapy prior to the pandemic resulted in a lack of training for many social work practitioners and MSW student interns, who were required to make rapid transitions to using and operating in online environments. It appears likely that e-therapy will continue after the COVID -19 pandemic subsides, so integrat...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Adapting Clinical Skills to Telehealth: Applications of Affirmative Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with LGBTQ+ Youth
AbstractOnline social work services (e.g., telemental health; telebehavioral health; virtual care; telehealth) present significant opportunities for clinical social workers to provide effective care to marginalized populations, such as LGBTQ+ youth. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased focus on telehealth, and while there are excellent resources to guide ethics, standards, and legal decisions (NASW, n.d.), there is less guidance in the literature to specifically inform the adaptation of offline clinical skills to telehealth, particularly for LGBTQ+ youth. To address this gap, we present examples from our experienc...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Navigating Uncertainty in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Pilot Simulation-Based Study
AbstractWhile clinical social work has a strong conceptual understanding of uncertainty, there is a lack of empirical data on how practitioners navigate uncertainty in practice. This paper reports findings of the data generated from a simulation-based pilot study designed to explore clinical social workers ’ encounters with uncertainty and the strategies they use to navigate it. Experienced clinicians (n = 4), recent graduates (n = 4) and graduate students (n = 3) participated in a 30-min video recorded case-based simulated session with a live standardized client (SC). Using standardized clients, simulation-b...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Posttraumatic Stress, Grief, Burnout, and Secondary Trauma of Social Workers in the United St ates
This study used data from the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Emotional Well-Being Study, a prospective panel study examining the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and includes a sample of 181 social workers. We conducted univariate analyses. Over a quarter (26.21%) of social workers met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD and 16.22% reported severe grief symptoms. While 99.19% of the sample reported average to high compassion satisfaction, 63.71% reported average burnout and 49.59% reported average secondary trauma. Findings indicate that social workers are reporting higher than national estimates of PTS...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - March 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
