The Use of Group Methods in Social Welfare Settings. (Report of a workshop sponsored by the Mental Health Services of the Louisiana State Department of Hospitals and the Tulane School of Social Work.) New Orleans: School of Social Work, Tulane University, August 1957. 79 pp. (Mimeographed.)

Since the 1980s, cultural competency has increasingly been recognized as a salient factor in the helping process, which requires social-work professionals to effectively integrate cultural knowledge and sensitivity with skills. This entry chronicles the history of mental-health services and the development of cultural competency in social-work practice, followed by a discussion of mental-health services utilization and barriers to services among racial/ethnic minorities. Directions for enhancing cultural competency in mental-health services are also highlighted.

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Social Work in Health and Mental Health Services

Social Casework ◽

10.1177/104438947105200404 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 211-219

Author(s):

Bertram J. Black

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Social Work ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Common Thread ◽

The Common

An examination of some concepts and issues relating to health care shows that the common thread is the responsibility for planning and administration

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Social Workers in Child Mental Health: Securing a Future

Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review ◽

10.1017/s1360641700002240 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 102-107

Author(s):

Philip Messent

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Work ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Social Workers ◽

Child Mental Health ◽

Adolescent Mental Health ◽

Child And Adolescent ◽

The Uk

A study was conducted to investigate reductions in the numbers of social work posts located within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the UK. Results suggested that reductions in posts noted in earlier studies are continuing. Interviewees' ideas about factors contributing to the survival of such posts are summarised. The significance of the loss of posts is discussed, with an account of changing ideas about the role of social workers within CAMHS teams, and of an audit undertaken of one service lacking such a post. Conclusions are drawn concerning ways of ensuring the preservation of such posts.

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Correlates of perceptions of elder’s suffering from depression

Advances in Social Work ◽

10.18060/119 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 44-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael N. Kane ◽

Debra Lacey ◽

Diane Green

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Regression Analysis ◽

Social Work ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Social Work Education ◽

Social Work Students ◽

Predictor Variables ◽

Oppressed Group ◽

Work Education

The study investigated social work students’ perceptions of elders as depressed and suffering (N= 156). Four predictor variables were identified from a standard regression analysis that account for 32% of the model’s adjusted variance: (a) perceptions of elders as vulnerable, (b) perceptions about elders as oppressed. Overall, respondents perceived elders as being depressed, vulnerable, members of an oppressed group, abusive of substances, and only moderately resilient in response to mental health services. Implications are discussed for social work education.

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Kenworthy, Marion Edwena

Encyclopedia of Social Work ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.726 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Rebecca L. Sperling

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Work ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Child Psychiatry ◽

Armed Forces ◽

The Social

Marion Edwena Kenworthy (1891–1980) was a psychiatrist who introduced psychoanalytic concepts into the social work curriculum. She was influential in the professionalization of social work and specialized in child psychiatry and mental health services for the armed forces.

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