Adult social care training for newly-qualified doctors from general medical practice: A pilot project, doctors and social workers learning together

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
L. Allain ◽  
L. Bell ◽  
E. Carter ◽  
H. Hingley-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
General Medical Practice ◽  
Care Training ◽  
Learning Together

Organising: influences of the state, organisations and wider social policies

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Linda Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Professional Organisation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Care Training ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Government Initiative

This chapter focuses on organisation. Organising social work falls into many different areas, and because social workers are employed in so many different kinds of organisation (statutory local authorities being only one kind) and different sectors (including health and education, as well as the social-care field), the chapter concentrates only on a few areas. It looks backwards and forwards across the 1990s to the present day, as well as on into the future, and also considers social work both internationally and in the UK. It considers some important areas of social work: the development of professional organisation(s), research conferences, and the further exploration of developments in social work/social care education. Finally, the chapter gives two specific English examples: the first links up social work/social care training, research, and related workshops and conferences in the 1990s; and the second explores how recent social work education has been organised via the UK government initiative of funded ‘teaching partnerships’.

‘She Made You Feel like There’s Hope’: Gaining a Better Understanding of How Children Negotiate Their Relationships with Social Workers from Their Own Accounts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Gorin ◽  
Mary Baginsky ◽  
Jo Moriarty ◽  
Jill Manthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Signs Of Safety ◽  
Relational Resilience ◽  
Children’S Accounts ◽  
Care Innovation

Abstract Recent years have seen a re-emergence of international interest in relationship-based social work. This article uses children’s accounts of their relationships with social workers to build on previous research to promote children’s safety and well-being. Interviews were undertaken with 111 children aged six- to eighteen-years old across ten different local authorities in England, as part of the evaluation of Munro, Turnell and Murphy’s Signs of Safety pilots within the Department for Education’s Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme. The interviews reveal four key findings: that children look for care and reciprocity in their relationships with social workers and this can be achieved through listening and small acts of kindness; that they are adept at recognising aspects of social workers’ verbal and non-verbal communications which indicate to the child whether they are listening and interested in them; that there are times in which children are particularly vulnerable especially if parents are resistant to engagement or children’s trust is broken; and that children actively use their agency to control their communication and engagement. The article concludes by highlighting children’s relational resilience and the importance of ensuring opportunities for children to develop new relationships with social workers when previous relationships have broken down.

Evidence-based practice and management-by-knowledge of disability care: rigid constraint or fluid support?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Pistone ◽  
Allan Lidström ◽  
Ingemar Bohlin ◽  
Thomas Schneider ◽  
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Rigid Constraint ◽  
Care Practices

Background: Although increasingly accepted in some corners of social work, critics have claimed that evidence-based practice (EBP) methodologies run contrary to local care practices and result in an EBP straitjacket and epistemic injustice. These are serious concerns, especially in relation to already marginalised clients.Aims and objectives: Against the backdrop of criticism against EBP, this study explores the ramifications of the Swedish state-governed knowledge infrastructure, ‘management-by-knowledge’, for social care practices at two care units for persons with intellectual disabilities.Methods: Data generated from ethnographic observations and interviews were analysed by applying a conceptual framework of epistemic injustice; also analysed were national, regional and local knowledge products within management-by-knowledge related to two daily activity (DA) units at a social care provider in Sweden.Findings: In this particular case of disability care, no obvious risks of epistemic injustice were discovered in key knowledge practices of management-by-knowledge. Central methodologies of national agencies did include perspectives from social workers and clients, as did regional infrastructures. Locally, there were structures in place that focused on creating a dynamic interplay between knowledge coming from various forms of evidence, including social workers’ and clients’ own knowledge and experience.Discussion and conclusions: Far from being a straitjacket, in the case studied management-by-knowledge may be understood as offering fluid support. Efforts which aim at improving care for people with disabilities might benefit from organisational support structures that enable dynamic interactions between external knowledge and local practices.<br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Examining one case of disability care in Sweden, both social workers’ and clients’ experiences were included in EBP infrastructures.</li><br /><li>In this study, Swedish EBP infrastructures functioned more like fluid support than a straitjacket.</li><br /><li>Organisational structures that combine different knowledge sources at service providers can minimise the risk of epistemic injustice within social care.</li></ul>

Effectiveness of Educational Programs on Palliative and End-of-life Care in Promoting Perceived Competence Among Health and Social Care Professionals

2021 ◽  
pp. 104990912110385
Author(s):  
Kelly Tsz Ching Wong ◽  
Amy Yin Man Chow ◽  
Iris Kwan Ning Chan
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Health And Social Care

Background: There is a growing need for palliative care for patients near the end of life and their caregivers. Palliative and end-of-life care (EoLC) education are recommended for all health care (e.g., physicians, nurses, and allied health practitioners) and social care professionals (e.g., social workers) to ensure the quality of services. However, less attention has been afforded to generic, in contrast to specialized, EoLC education. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a series of short-term generic EoLC educational programs for health and social care professionals. Method: A pre-post survey design was adopted, focusing on different EoLC core competences. Results: Significant improvement was observed in all perceived competences after the educational programs, regardless of participants’ occupation or EoLC experience. Perceived competence in self-care was rated significantly higher than all other competences prior to the programs. Healthcare professionals rated significantly higher on competence in symptom management than social workers. Scores on communication skill and self-care competences were significantly higher following longer (i.e., 16-24 hours) than shorter (i.e., 4-8 hours) programs. Conclusion: Generalist palliative/EoLC educational programs may enable health and social care professionals to refresh and extend their knowledge and skills and enhance their perceived competence in providing EoLC. Further research on generalist palliative/EoLC education is needed to examine the impact of continuing training on professionals’ actual practice in EoLC and palliative care.

Historical and medical aspects of the formation and development of regional general medical practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Ilyinichna Kaspruk
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
General Medical Practice ◽  
Orenburg Region ◽  
Medical Analysis ◽  
Territorial Systems

The results of the historical and medical analysis of the processes of formation and development of primary care in the Orenburg Region are quite relevant, especially in connection with the renewed demand for resolving urgent issues that have arisen in the system of domestic health care. Consideration of the above aspects on the example of a separate territory, the Orenburg Region, is significant, given that public health care is formed by various structures of territorial systems in the context of demographic, social and economic gradations.

ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS IN GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE: TOPICAL ISSUES AND UNSOLVED PROBLEMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
A. A. Kirpichenka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
General Medical Practice ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Somatic Diseases ◽  
Quality Diagnosis

Diagnosis of anxiety and depressive disorders in general medical practice is a very important problem of modern medicine. This review article provides basic information about the epidemiology and economic burden of anxiety-depressive disorders, their comorbidity with other mental and somatic diseases, and the connection with suicidal behavior. According to the Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus dated 02.03.2020 № 13 «On approval of the clinical protocol» «Diagnosis and treatment of patients with mental and behavioral disorders by general practitioners», this article focuses on depression, generalized anxiety, panic, mixed anxiety and depressive disorder in general medical practice. Relevant issues of low quality diagnosis of anxiety and depressive disorders are identified, which are associated both with the complexity of the clinical picture of the diseases in question and with organizational problems. Particular attention is also paid to the need for further integration of psychiatric care into general medical practice while increasing its accessibility and quality. For this, it is necessary to continue studying the best practices of foreign countries in which family and general practitioners have been providing psychiatric care to patients for many years.

Anxiety Disorders in General Medical Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Dzyak ◽  
Olena Tsurakalenko
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Early Initiation ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
General Medical Practice ◽  
Timely Diagnosis ◽  
Adequate Therapy ◽  
Medical Network

Timely diagnosis and early initiation of adequate therapy of disorders of the alarming spectrum (AS) remains one of the urgent tasks of modern medicine. The article considers aspects of diagnosis and treatment of AS in General medical network, particularly were described the currently recommended schemes of application of the drug Eglonil and benefits of this drug. Eglonil demonstrates the possibility of wide application of different variants of anxiety disorders, which gives the drug a special status among other psychotropic compounds.

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