scholarly journals Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Monika Čajko Eibicht ◽  
Walter Lorenz ◽  
Zuzana Havrdová
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of UK Educational and Training Materials Aimed at Health and Social Care Staff about Providing Appropriate Services for LGBT+ People

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 4976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ros Hunt ◽  
Christopher Bates ◽  
Susan Walker ◽  
Jeffrey Grierson ◽  
Sarah Redsell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Behaviour Change Techniques ◽  
Narrative Synthesis ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Lgbt Issues ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Lgbt People

Background: There is greater dissatisfaction with health services by LGBT people compared to heterosexual and cisgender people and some of this is from lack of equality and diversity training for health professionals. Core training standards in sexual orientation for health professionals have been available since 2006. The purpose of this project is to systematically review educational materials for health and social care professionals in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. Methods: A protocol was developed and searches conducted in six databases. Selection criteria: any studies reporting delivery or evaluation of UK education of health and/or social care professionals in LGBT issues, with no language or setting restrictions. Inclusions and data extraction were conducted in duplicate. Narrative synthesis of educational evaluations was used. Educational materials were assessed using thematic synthesis. Results: From the searches, 165 full papers were evaluated and 19 studies were included in the narrative synthesis. Three were successful action-research projects in cancer services and in residential care. Sixteen sets of educational/training materials have been available since 2010. These varied in length, scope, target audience, and extent of development as classroom-ready materials. Conclusions: Despite the availability of appropriate training programmes for post-qualifying staff, recommendations to undertake training, best practice examples, and statements of good intent, LGBT people continue to report that they are experiencing discrimination or direct prejudice from health and/or social care services. Better training strategies using behaviour change techniques are needed.

scholarly journals The Role of Empathy in Health and Social Care Professionals

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Moudatsou ◽  
Areti Stavropoulou ◽  
Anastas Philalithis ◽  
Sofia Koukouli
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Subject

The current article is an integrative and analytical literature review on the concept and meaning of empathy in health and social care professionals. Empathy, i.e., the ability to understand the personal experience of the patient without bonding with them, constitutes an important communication skill for a health professional, one that includes three dimensions: the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral. It has been proven that health professionals with high levels of empathy operate more efficiently as to the fulfillment of their role in eliciting therapeutic change. The empathetic professional comprehends the needs of the health care users, as the latter feel safe to express the thoughts and problems that concern them. Although the importance of empathy is undeniable, a significantly high percentage of health professionals seem to find it difficult to adopt a model of empathetic communication in their everyday practice. Some of the factors that negatively influence the development of empathy are the high number of patients that professionals have to manage, the lack of adequate time, the focus on therapy within the existing academic culture, but also the lack of education in empathy. Developing empathetic skills should not only be the underlying objective in the teaching process of health and social care undergraduate students, but also the subject of the lifelong and continuous education of professionals.

Social care, the personal passport, and reasonable adjustments

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traolach S. Brugha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adult Autism

Where treatment and health care is no longer able to bring relief and improve functioning, social care should take over. In this chapter, we discuss the development of social care in the context of adult autism, and the range of its concerns and interests is considered. The key role of the social worker, particularly as a broker of social care, is developed. Health professionals define the need for reasonable adjustments to assessed disability, and the content of a personal passport, summarizing individual’s needs. Health professionals also have a key role in risk management, although the social worker may have a key co-ordinating role. A wide range of contexts for social care within and beyond health care is considered. The distinction between individual need and care planning, and the role of the wider society, which will be covered in Chapter 14, concludes this chapter.

Frailty and Social Care: Over- or Under-Familiar Terms?

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Manthorpe ◽  
Steve Iliffe ◽  
Jess Harris ◽  
Jo Moriarty ◽  
Martin Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Stable State ◽  
Mental Disabilities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Care Managers ◽  
Study Participants

Definitions of frailty are much debated. The focus of this article is on the representation of frailty; who employs the terms ‘frail’ or ‘frailty’ in social care, about whom and with what meanings? We report secondary analysis of interview data from two waves of a longitudinal study starting in 2008. Study participants were 240 social care managers/practitioners working in four English localities. Social care managers and practitioners did not talk at length about frailty as characterising the increasing needs of care users. The minority who talked about frailty used the term in three ways: describing a physical state not including dementia; describing a stable state, as distinct from those dying; and as a combination of physical and mental disabilities (i.e. dementia). Differences among the participants in this study about the meaning of frailty could have implications for policy makers and for communication with other staff, health professionals, older people and their relatives.

scholarly journals Attitudes and perceptions of health professionals towards mental patients attending emergency room

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Stamatina Douki ◽  
Christina Marvaki ◽  
Georgia Toulia ◽  
Areti Stavropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Social Care ◽  
P Value ◽  
Social Discrimination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
Social Restriction

Introduction: Mental health patients are a group of population that has predominantly been stigmatized throughout the centuries. Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore attitudes of health professionals in the emergency department towards the mentally ill.Material and Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 278 health professionals working in Emergency Departments. A questionnaire scale O.M.I. (Opinion about Mental Illness) was used for data collection. Data analysis was performed with the statistical package Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) ver.22.Results: The correlation of five O.M.I. scale factors there is no statistically significant relationship (p-value> 0.05) with the variables sex and years of employment. Age had a statistically significant relationship (p-value=0.034) with the factor "social integration" and has no statistically significant relationship (p-value> 0.05) with the remaining factors O.M.I. scale ("Social discrimination", "social constraint", "social care" and "ground"). In association with education there is a statistically significant relationship with the agents 'social discrimination'(p-value<0.001),  'social restriction'(p-value=0.001),  and "ground"(p-value=0.045) and there statistically significant relationship (p-value> 0.05) with the "social inclusion"(p-value<0.001) and "social care" specialty.The variable has a statistically significant difference (p-value <0.05) the factor "social distinction” (p-value<0.001) between doctors andnurses, in the "social restriction 'among doctors and nurses and between nurses and other disciplines and the factor "social integration"(p-value<0.001) between physicians-nurses and doctors with other specialties.Conclusions: The statistical analysis of the questionnaires (O.M.I. scale) distributed showed that the variables age, educational level, specialty affect the attitudes and perceptions of health professionals towards the mentally ill (negative stops), which form the stigma of mental illness.

VP67 Caring For Children With Neurodevelopmental Disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (S1) ◽  
pp. 91-91
Author(s):  
Aurélio Andrade ◽  
Juliana Girardi ◽  
Nicole de Mello ◽  
Luciana Köptcke ◽  
Flávia Elias
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorders ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Teaching Learning

IntroductionProfessionals dealing with children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDDs) need to be constantly trained because of the numerous challenges posed by the particularities arising from the multiple conditions that pervade child development. The aim of this study is to describe the training processes of education, health and social care professionals who care for children aged 0 to 12 years with neurodevelopmental disorders.MethodsThe revision overview was registered in the PROSPERO platform CRD42018100715 that followed the parameters of the PRISMA protocol and aimed to identify the existing multi-professional training processes, aimed at health professionals, education and social assistance aimed at promoting skills for care with children and families with TND. The research question was structured according to the acronym PICO. The search was performed in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, CRD, Web of Science, Campbell Library, Health System Evidence, Epistemonikos and Joanna Briggs databases in May 2018.ResultsWe selected 23 articles. Of these, 21 (91 percent) were health professionals, 22 (96 percent) referred to intellectual disability, 16 (71 percent) were in the American continent and 15 (65 percent) used in-service training as educational resource. The outcomes showed that the structuring of teaching-learning in the practice of health, education and social care professionals determines a more inclusive proposal in the treatment of children with NDD.ConclusionsThe health professional is the most trained to attend children with NDD, however, training and development policies are lacking for professionals from other areas who act as a gateway to diagnostic services. Establishing in-service training initiatives strengthens the support and structuring of intersectoral programs that would facilitate multi-professional participation in the prognosis and treatment directed at children with NDD. Therefore, associating the use of assistive technologies allows new opportunities to access tools and electronic devices that allow the formation of professionals.

Improving health professionals’ and learners’ attitudes towards homeless individuals through street-based outreach

2021 ◽  
pp. 001789692110373
Author(s):  
Justin Zeien ◽  
Jeffery Hanna ◽  
Jasper Puracan ◽  
Sara Yee ◽  
Abel De Castro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Professional Attitude ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

Objective: To identify the impact of volunteering in a street medicine programme on perceptions of and attitudes towards individuals experiencing homelessness. Design: Prospective pre- and post-analysis using involvement in a street medicine programme as the intervention. Attitudes towards and perceptions of individuals experiencing homelessness were measured using the Health Professional Attitude Towards the Homeless Inventory (HPATHI). Setting: Participants provided outreach to individuals experiencing homelessness across metro Phoenix in parks and in homeless encampments along the streets. Method: Students and preceptors from numerous professions, including medicine, nursing, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, public health and undergraduate students, who volunteered for the street medicine programme were organised into small outreach teams. All volunteers were emailed the HPATHI to complete before and after semester-long, monthly outreach events. Results: Volunteering in our street medicine programme demonstrated statistically significant improvements in perceptions of and attitudes towards individuals experiencing homelessness for all volunteers, regardless of profession. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that integrating street medicine programmes into curricula for health and social care programmes can reduce the stigma towards individuals experiencing homelessness, inspire increased commitment to practising in underserved communities and meet the unmet health and social needs of the homeless population.

scholarly journals Experiences of mental health professionals supporting front-line health and social care workers during COVID-19: qualitative study

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Billings ◽  
Camilla Biggs ◽  
Brian Chi Fung Ching ◽  
Vasiliki Gkofa ◽  
David Singleton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Clinical Pathways ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Health And Social Care

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a well-documented impact on the mental health of front-line health and social care workers (HSCWs). However, little attention has been paid to the experiences of, and impact on, the mental health professionals who were rapidly tasked with supporting them. Aims We set out to redress this gap by qualitatively exploring UK mental health professionals’ experiences, views and needs while working to support the well-being of front-line HSCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method Mental health professionals working in roles supporting front-line HSCWs were recruited purposively and interviewed remotely. Transcripts of the interviews were analysed by the research team following the principles of reflexive thematic analysis. Results We completed interviews with 28 mental health professionals from varied professional backgrounds, career stages and settings across the UK. Mental health professionals were motivated and driven to develop new clinical pathways to support HSCWs they perceived as colleagues and many experienced professional growth. However, this also came at some costs, as they took on additional responsibilities and increased workloads, were anxious and uncertain about how best to support this workforce and tended to neglect their own health and well-being. Many were professionally isolated and were affected vicariously by the traumas and moral injuries that healthcare workers talked about in sessions. Conclusions This research highlights the urgent need to consider the mental well-being, training and support of mental health professionals who are supporting front-line workers.

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