The Use of Group Methods in the Practice of Casework. (A workshop jointly sponsored by the Mental Health Services of the Louisiana State Department of Hospitals and Tulane School of Social Work.) New Orleans: School of Social Work, Tulane University, August 1959. 115 pp. (Mimeographed.)

Social Work ◽  
1960 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
State Department ◽  
Group Methods ◽  
School Of Social Work

Cultural Competency in Mental-Health Services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Sung Hong ◽  
Wynne Sandra Korr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Salient Factor ◽  
Helping Process

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.

Social Work in Health and Mental Health Services

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

Social Workers in Child Mental Health: Securing a Future

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.

scholarly journals Correlates of perceptions of elder’s suffering from depression

10.18060/119 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
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.

Kenworthy, Marion Edwena

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.

‘Maybe a Maverick, Maybe a Parent, but Definitely Not an Honorary Nurse’: Social Worker Perspectives on the Role and Nature of Social Work in Mental Health Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Tucker ◽  
Martin Webber
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Uk

Abstract In many places in the UK, social work is integral to mental health service delivery. Significant role erosion, however, has left the profession unclear about where it fits within modern mental health services. The 2016 Social Work for Better Mental Health initiative outlines five key mental health roles and has been adopted into national policy in England to combat this uncertainty, but the influence of this has not been explored. This study aimed to develop an understanding of how mental health social workers perceive and explain their role. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with seven social workers based within one English National Health Service mental health trust covering a large geographical area and their responses analysed using Ritchie, Spencer and O’Connor’s Framework thematic model. Findings indicated that social workers only superficially engaged with the aspirational policy roles, instead presenting their own framework for what makes mental health social work distinctive. This was constructed around the context and intentions of practice, rather than around proscribed tasks and responsibilities. This study has significance for individual social workers and for organisations providing and planning mental health services in the UK and beyond, given the influence that practitioner perceptions can have on how they undertake their roles.

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