Social Worker, Therapist for Systemic Therapy, 13 years’ experience, Germany

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-148
Author(s):  
Markus Reuber ◽  
Gregg H. Rawlings ◽  
Steven C. Schachter
Keyword(s):  
Social Worker ◽  
Systemic Therapy ◽  
Epileptic Seizures ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Pension Insurance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epilepsy Center ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the experience of a social worker with patients with Non-Epileptic Seizures. It specifically considers one client who had been given the diagnosis of epilepsy after her first attack. In addition, she had become depressed, a second serious diagnosis. She was sent to the counseling center to learn how to cope with her disease and for the social worker to help her find work. However, the pension insurance and the epilepsy center came to different conclusions about the patient’s ability to work. The social worker then accompanied the patient to the job center, which brought the patient emotional relief. Several months later, the patient’s invalidity pension was granted. This cleared the way for her integration into a workshop for disabled people.

Street-level bureaucracy revisited

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
Simple Task ◽  
Street Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

In social work practice, keeping records of encounters with clients is a routinized practice for documenting cases. This paper focuses on the specific task of obtaining the prospective clients’ correct address for filling in a standardized personal report form. My analysis focuses in the way both the client(s) and the social worker cooperatively orient to the practice of writing addresses, showing how this apparently simple task is multimodally implemented within interaction, and how it can generate some complications and expansions. A special focus will be devoted to difficulties encountered by clients to give their address in an adequate way, as well as to the transformation of this activity from an individual to a collective task.

Clients Toward Whom a Social Worker Feels Attraction

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-169
Author(s):  
Joseph Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Working Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
The Way

The broad nature of the social work profession offers opportunities for practitioners to work with diverse clients. While committed to the welfare of all clients, social workers tend to be drawn to some clients more than others, due in part to their abilities to connect with them. A social worker’s positive feelings about his or her clients is a good thing, but it is possible that at times he or she will experience a special fondness or attraction for a client that can create biases that get in the way of a constructive working relationship. The purposes of this chapter are to explore the circumstances in which positive feelings about clients develop and to suggest ways for social workers to manage those feelings in a way that keeps their focus on the client’s welfare.

Easy targets: a disability rights perspective on the 'children as carers' debate

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (44-45) ◽  
pp. 36-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Keith ◽  
Jenny Morris
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Young Carers ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This article looks at how the children of disabled parents are being defined as 'young carers', arguing that the way in which this is hap pening undermines both the rights of children and the rights of disabled people, Analysis of the social construction of 'children as carers' illustrates that researchers and pressure groups are colluding with the government's insistence that 'care in the community' must mean 'care by the community'.

Director of the Epilepsy Information Service–Psychiatric Social Worker, 45 years’ experience, USA

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-178
Author(s):  
Markus Reuber ◽  
Gregg H. Rawlings ◽  
Steven C. Schachter
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Epileptic Seizures ◽  
Psychiatric Social Worker ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Epilepsy Center ◽  
Power Of Words

This chapter assesses the experience of a Psychiatric Social Worker with patients with seizures. Having operated a nationwide Epilepsy Information Service in the USA since the 1970s, the Psychiatric Social Worker has talked with hundreds of thousands of persons with seizures and non-epileptic seizures, and a number who have both diagnoses. There was one patient in particular who was a frequent caller to the Epilepsy Information Service. His seizures were uncontrolled and he was seeking a better answer for his seizures. The patient was followed by a general neurologist who had explored every option to find a medicine that worked. The Psychiatric Social Worker then suggested that he talk with his doctor about referral to a comprehensive epilepsy center for monitoring to see if surgery might be an option or perhaps enrollment in a clinical trial of a new anticonvulsant. Later, he was seen by a Psychologist in whom he confided that he had been sexually abused as a child. The Psychologist informed him in an angry and impatient manner that he was having pseudoseizures, which made him feel violated once again and thus led him to depression. This case vividly portrays the importance of how the diagnosis is relayed and the power of words in these crucial situations.

scholarly journals Selected aspects of shaping the adulthood attributes of clients in social work

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (2(35)) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Joanna Kluczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Dysfunctional Families ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The article presents the elements of social work, which are important for shaping the aspects of clients' adulthood. The methods, techniques and forms of help should mobilize the client to be active and independent. In the process of help, it is important to build a mutual relationship between a social worker and a client based on the treating as a subject, showing respect and listening. Such an attitude towards the assisted person is aimed at strengthening him/her on the way to regain control over his/her own life, to build a faith in his/her own possibilities and  to take responsibility for his/her own fate and the fate of people dependent on the client. The social worker participates also in the process of empowering young people, who are brought up in foster care, and in the case of children from dysfunctional families, the social worker makes sure that they are not overwhelmed by the challenges of adulthood.

scholarly journals Dis-Equality: Exploring the Juxtaposition of Disability and Equality

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Bronagh Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Forms ◽  
Rules Of The Game ◽  
The Way

The (in)equality issues facing disabled people are extensive and long-enduring. The way(s) in which equality is conceptualised has important consequences for understandings of disability. The ambiguity of what I call <em>dis-equality</em> theory is two-fold; the apparent failure of mainstream equality theorising in, firstly, embracing disability concepts at all, and secondly, in fully incorporating the logistics of disability, particularly in relation to the social construction of such. Practices of institutional and more complex forms of discrimination are part of those deeper structures of domination and oppression which maintain disabled people in positions of disadvantage. Everyday practices, in the ‘ordinary order of things’ (Bourdieu, 2000), continue to be misrecognised as natural and taken for granted. This article critically explores the complexity of <em>dis-equality</em> theorising utilising a Bourdieusian lens which explicitly incorporates complex and subtle forms of discrimination, and by examining the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ approach to equality. I argue that the way forward for <em>dis-equality</em> theorising in today’s rights based era must be one that considers the nuances of the ‘rules of the game’ (Young, 1990) if it is to be effective in challenging the inequalities to which disabled people have long been subject.

Our Most Troubling Madness

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Defeat ◽  
Social World ◽  
Epidemiological Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brain Alteration ◽  
Benign Course ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We now have direct epidemiological evidence that people are more likely to fall ill with schizophrenia in some social settings than in others, and more likely to recover in some social settings than in others. Something about the social world gets under the skin. This book presents twelve case studies written by psychiatric anthropologists that help to illustrate some of the variability in the social experience of schizophrenia and that illustrate the main hypotheses about the different experience of schizophrenia in the west and outside the west--and in particular, why schizophrenia seems to have a more benign course and outcome in India. We argue that above all it is the experience of “social defeat” that increases the risk and burden of schizophrenia, and that opportunities for social defeat are more abundant in the modern west. There is a new role for anthropology in the science of schizophrenia. Psychiatric science has learned—epidemiologically, empirically, quantitatively—that our social world makes a difference. But the highly structured, specific-variable analytic methods of standard psychiatric science cannot tell us what it is about culture that has that impact. The careful observation enabled by rich ethnography allows us to see in more detail what kinds of social and cultural features may make a difference to a life lived with schizophrenia. And if we understand culture’s impact more deeply, we believe that we may improve the way we reach out to help those who struggle with our most troubling madness.

Attention Sustainability Impact on Social Status in the Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Stanislava Varadinova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way ◽  
Positive Environment

The attention sustainability and its impact of social status in the class are current issues concerning the field of education are the reasons for delay in assimilating the learning material and early school dropout. Behind both of those problems stand psychological causes such as low attention sustainability, poor communication skills and lack of positive environment. The presented article aims to prove that sustainability of attention directly influences the social status of students in the class, and hence their overall development and the way they feel in the group. Making efforts to increase students’ attention sustainability could lead to an increase in the social status of the student and hence the creation of a favorable and positive environment for the overall development of the individual.

Overcoming the Civilizational Crisis - On the Way of Spiritual and Cultural Self Identification. On the Social and Philosophical Heritage of I.A. Ilyin

2013 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Alexander M. Sharipov
Keyword(s):  
Great Scientist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Self ◽  
The Way

On the activity of the International Ilyin Committee (IIC) on preparation and celebration of 130-th Anniversary of I.A.Ilyin, the great scientist and patriot of Russia.

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