Spoke and Wheel: Turning toward Pediatric Social Workers for Family-Based Bereavement Support

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Julianne Tullis ◽  
Sabrina Schalley ◽  
Hema Navaneethan ◽  
Christyn Chapman ◽  
Meaghann S. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Bereavement Support ◽  
Wheel Turning ◽  
Family Based

scholarly journals Death, dying and bereavement care during COVID-19: Creativity in hospital social work practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Mim Fox ◽  
Joanna McIlveen ◽  
Elisabeth Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Bereavement Support ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Hospital Social Work ◽  
Complicating Factors ◽  
Bereavement Care

Bereavement support and conducting viewings for grieving family members are commonplace activities for social workers in the acute hospital setting, however the risks that COVID-19 has brought to the social work role in bereavement care has necessitated the exploration of creative alternatives. Social workers are acutely aware of the complicating factors when bereavement support is inadequately provided, let alone absent, and with the aid of technology and both individual advocacy, social workers have been able to continue to focus on the needs of the most vulnerable in the hospital system. By drawing on reflective journaling and verbal reflective discussions amongst the authors, this article discusses bereavement support and the facilitation of viewings as clinical areas in which hospital social work has been observed adapting practice creatively throughout the pandemic.

scholarly journals Välfärdsstatens logik? Erfarenheter från färäldrar med kognitiva och ekonomiska svårigheter

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stina Fernqvist ◽  
Elisabet Näsman
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Cognitive Difficulties ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Based ◽  
The Welfare State

The logic of the welfare state? Experiences from parents with cognitive and financial difficultiesPrevious research has shown that parents with cognitive difficulties (neuropsychiatric impairments and/or intellectual disability) often are at risk of poverty. The same is reported from the Swedish welfare state, and such financial hardship may have a profound effect on family life. How these parents experience poverty and how their experiences can be related to cognitive difficulties and notions of poverty is addressed in this article. Their ability to cope in everyday life partly relies on whether, or how, existing support caters to the specific needs of these individuals. This article draws on research on poverty, disability and family. Based on interviews with parents with cognitive difficulties, these questions are discussed: how does their financial situation affect family life? How do they experience support from relatives and professionals? What kind of support is available from the welfare state, and to what extent does this support comprise perspectives on family and children? How do the parents experience informal support from their own family? How can this problem complex be localized in legislation and practice? The findings discussed here suggest that these parents often associate their experiences of poverty with the limitations caused by their impairments. Parents further state that they often rely on their own agency to get proper support, which can be very difficult, and question how support for these parents could be handled differently, in terms of both legislation and practice. The findings also show that support from society is often mediated on an individual level through initiatives from social workers and other persons working near the family, which highlights the absence of systematic support directed towards these parents.

Experiences of lay social workers trained in a trauma-informed intervention in the deinstitutionalization of Rwanda

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Hunsley ◽  
Erin Razuri ◽  
Darlene Ninziza Kamanzi ◽  
Halle Sullivan ◽  
Casey Call ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Education Support

Purpose Rwanda established a deinstitutionalization program to end institutional care and transition to family-based care for children. Part of their program involved training local volunteers in an evidence-based, trauma-informed caregiving model, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), to provide education, support and TBRI training to caregivers who reunited or adopted children from institutional care in Rwanda. This study aims to describe the process of disseminating a trauma-informed intervention, TBRI, as part of the national deinstitutionalization program in Rwanda. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten lay social workers about Rwanda’s care reform and their experience using TBRI. A phenomenological approach was used to qualitatively analyze the interviews. Findings Analysis revealed five themes centered on the usefulness and universality of TBRI, the power of community in meeting the needs of children and youth and the importance of connection in supporting children who have experienced institutional care. Originality/value A global call to end institutional care and shift to family-based care for children has organizations, governments and experts seeking pathways to implement care reform. Although care reform is a complex process, Rwanda created and implemented a deinstitutionalization program focused on spreading the message of care reform and providing sustainable support for caregivers and families.

scholarly journals KEADAAN PEMENUHAN HAK PENDIDIKAN ANAK REMAJA PASCA REUNIFIKASI

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Nurliana Cipta Apsari ◽  
R. Nunung Nurwati
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Save The Children ◽  
Family Based ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Child Resilience

ABSTRACTFamily is the first and utmost place for child rights fulfilment. Commonly, family is the place to guarantee the development and child rights fulfilment, however, many children are being placed in orphanages in order for the children to acquire their rights of education. Children reside in orphanages are vulnerable of discrimination. In order to protect the vulnerable children, Save the Children with its program of Child and Family Support Center (PDAK) returning children residing in orphanages into their families, known as reunification, to receive family based care and still acquiring their rights including rights of education. Sequential mixed of quantitative and qualitative approach is used in this research. Data is collected from children and parents involved with reunification process and child care. The focus of this research is the fulfillment of child rights to develop and survival, mainly rights of education.The result shows that after reunification, one youth is not pursuing his study and decided to work because his father could not afford the educational expenses. The result also found that although the parents are economically deprived, but no youth have return to orphanages to receive institution based care. The research found strength of parent and resiliency of children thus keeping the children reside in their family and receive family based care. The strength of parent and child resilience exists because of social work support through case management model of PDAK Save the Children. The social workers have assisted the parents to gain access needed in order for them to fulfill the child rights. The social workers also assist and provide understanding to the children about their parents’ condition which then resulting in child resilience. Case management model serves as model for direct services for children and their families in keeping the continuity of family based care received by children after reunification. With this model, service providers will be able to synergized the policies and programs of social insurance planned and implemented by the government thus overcoming the limited access of parents to fulfill their children’s rights.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN POLA ASUH ORANGTUA DAN HARGA DIRI ANAK JALANAN USIA REMAJA

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-167
Author(s):  
Puji Mentari ◽  
Novy Helena Catharina Daulima
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Target Area ◽  
Consecutive Sampling ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Fenomena anak jalanan merupakan fokus perhatian banyak kalangan karena jumlahnya yang terus meningkat. Penelitian sebelumnya menyebutkan bahwa anak jalanan memiliki harga diri yang rendah dan identik dengan pola asuh uninvolved. Desain penelitian ini menggunakan deskriptif korelatif yang bertujuan mengidentifikasi hubungan pola asuh orangtua dan harga diri anak jalanan usia remaja. Penelitian ini dilakukan di daerah binaan rumah singgah di Jakarta Timur dengan 98 sampel, diambil menggunakan metode consecutive sampling. Harga diri diukur dengan menggunakan Rosenberg’s Self Esteem Scale dan pola asuh diukur dengan Instrumen Pola Asuh Mashoedi yang dikembangkan dari teori pola asuh orangtua milik Diana Baumrind. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan antara pola asuh orangtua dengan tingkat harga diri anak jalanan usia remaja di Jakarta Timur (p= 0,04). Untuk menangani masalah anak jalanan, diperlukan kerjasama dari pemerintah, perawat komunitas, pekerja sosial dan pihak rumah singgah untuk bersama-sama melakukan pemberdayaan anak jalanan berbasis keluarga dalam upaya merehabilitasi anak jalanan. Kata kunci: anak jalanan, harga diri, pola asuh orangtua, remaja Abstract  Relationship of Parenting Style and Self-Esteem of Street Children the Teen Years. The phenomenon of street children is a matter that has become the focus by many people because the number of street children itself is always increasing. Previous research stated that the street children have low self-esteem and they are identical with uninvolved parenting style. It is descriptive correlative study which aims to identify the relationship between parenting style and self-esteem on street children at East Jakarta. This research was conducted in the target area of shelter in East Jakarta towards 98 samples recruited using consecutive sampling. Self-esteem is measured using Rosenberg's Self Esteem Scale and parenting style measured using Mashoedi’s Parenting Style which was developed from the theory of Diana Baumrind’s parenting style. The results showed, there is a relationship between parenting style and a level of self-esteem street children in East Jakarta (p= 0.04). To overcome the problem of street children, the cooperation between governments, community nurses, social workers and shelter is needed to do the family-based empowerment together to rehabilitate street children. Keywords: Street children, self-esteem, parenting style, adolescent

Walking the Walk: Changing Familial Forms, Government Policy and Everyday Social Work Practice in England

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Walsh ◽  
Will Mason
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Family Diversity ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Complexity ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Family Based

Although contemporary sociological thought reports a diversification of family forms in society, ‘the family’ continues to influence national and international political agendas. Social workers, as ‘street level bureaucrats’, are social agents that both work with citizens and implement policies made by senior officials. Despite this, the extent to which conceptual and policy developments in family diversity manifest in family-based social work practice remains under explored. This article brings together the findings of two comparative studies, and explores the transfer of conceptual understandings of family, and policy, in England, through two examples: gendered caring expectations and culturally located familial norms. Significantly, we show that, when prompted, social workers recognise family complexity and diversity, but myriad constraints complicate the application of these understandings, and related policies. Bringing together literature from sociology, social policy and social work, this article, thereby, offers a unique lens and highlights a lag between conceptual developments, policy and implementation.

Spotlight on the Clinician in the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia: Balancing Relationship-Centered Care and Professionalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 414-424
Author(s):  
Rochelle Cohen-Schneider ◽  
Melodie T. Chan ◽  
Denise M. McCall ◽  
Allison M. Tedesco ◽  
Ann P. Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Therapeutic Encounter

Background Speech-language pathologists make clinical decisions informed by evidence-based theory and “beliefs, values and emotional experiences” ( Hinckley, 2005 , p. 265). These subjective processes, while not extensively studied, underlie the workings of the therapeutic relationship and contribute to treatment outcomes. While speech-language pathologists do not routinely pay attention to subjective experiences of the therapeutic encounter, social workers do. Thus, the field of social work makes an invaluable contribution to the knowledge and skills of speech-language pathologists. Purpose This clinical focus article focuses on the clinician's contribution to the therapeutic relationship by surfacing elements of the underlying subjective processes. Method Vignettes were gathered from clinicians in two community aphasia programs informed by the principles of the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia. Results and Discussion By reflecting on and sharing aspects of clinical encounters, clinicians reveal subjective processing occurring beneath the surface. The vignettes shed light on the following clinical behaviors: listening to the client's “whole self,” having considerations around self-disclosure, dealing with biases, recognizing and surfacing clients' identities, and fostering hope. Speech-language pathologists are given little instruction on the importance of the therapeutic relationship, how to conceptualize this relationship, and how to balance this relationship with professionalism. Interprofessional collaboration with social workers provides a rich opportunity to learn ways to form and utilize the benefits of a strong therapeutic relationship while maintaining high standards of ethical behavior. Conclusion This clinical focus article provides speech-language pathologists with the “nuts and bolts” for considering elements of the therapeutic relationship. This is an area that is gaining traction in the field of speech-language pathology and warrants further investigation.

Social workers in schools — the teachers' response

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
F. Wolstenholme ◽  
I. Kolvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers
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