scholarly journals Creating solace and hope during COVID-19: An innovative Internet-based social work intervention

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282095937
Author(s):  
Yixuan Wang ◽  
Qin Gao ◽  
Zhen Cheng ◽  
Ji Zhang ◽  
Yang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Internet Based Intervention ◽  
Work Method

During megacity lockdown, a team of social work practitioners and researchers in Beijing developed a rapid, innovative, Internet-based intervention that provided social-emotional support for participating families through indoor micro-gardening. As COVID-19 continues to restrict in-person interactions and traditional social activities, this type of online social-emotional support and community building should become a major social work method for crisis intervention and service provision.

scholarly journals Equality, Support and Guidance: A Social Work Intervention Study on the Environmental Adaptation of Left-behind Children from Poor Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Gao
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Environmental Adaptation ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Poor Families ◽  
Helping Others

Children from poor families are limited by poor material and emotional support, which has led to them being on the margins of society. When faced with changes in their living environment, they even showed a sense of embarrassment and panic that was difficult to adapt. As a profession based on helping others to help themselves, social work plays an active role in assisting these children to adapt to the environment.

Research on Social Work Practice in Egypt and the Arab World

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamido A. Megahead
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations

This article aims at introducing the research on social work practice in Egypt and the Arab World as a thematic topic. It has started with the essence of the current Arab World and its definition. Social work practice and models of social work intervention in this specific region have been described in terms of its specific and topographic nature. Three main contributors and players to research on social work practice have been included namely social work practitioners, academic social work researchers, and doctoral dissertations granted by Western universities to Arabs. The discussions and implications to research on social work practice in Egypt and the Arab World have been addressed.

Cognitive Therapy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Cognitive Therapies

Cognitive therapy is a perspective on social work intervention with individuals, families, and groups that focuses on conscious thought processes as the primary determinants of most emotions and behaviors. It has great appeal to social work practitioners because of its utility in working with many types of clients and problem situations, and its evidence-based support in the literature. Cognitive therapies include sets of strategies focused on education, a restructuring of thought processes, improved coping skills, and increased problem-solving skills for clients.

scholarly journals Practising social work groups online: Practitioners’ reflection on the COVID-19 outbreak

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282198979
Author(s):  
Elsa Ngai Hung ◽  
Terence Tat-Tai Lee ◽  
Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Social Work Practitioners

Conducting online social work groups, as a substitute for traditional forms of groups, was uncommon in Hong Kong before the outbreak of COVID-19. Frontline social workers encountered several difficulties and challenges while trying to provide this alternative form of social work intervention. This article serves as a reflection on the use of online social work groups from social work practitioners’ point of view at this critical juncture.

scholarly journals Role of Narrative and Social Networks in Thwarting Violence and Sexual Abuse in Young People’s Lives

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 2172-2190
Author(s):  
Margareta Hydén ◽  
David Gadd ◽  
Thomas Grund
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Young People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Intervention

Abstract Combining narrative analysis with social network analysis, this article analyses the case of a young Swedish female who had been physically and sexually abused. We show how she became trapped in an abusive relationship at the age of fourteen years following social work intervention in her family home, and how she ultimately escaped from this abuse aged nineteen years. The analysis illustrates the significance of responses to interpersonal violence from the social networks that surround young people; responses that can both entrap them in abusive relationships by blaming them for their problems and enable them to escape abuse by recognising their strengths and facilitating their choices. The article argues that the case for social work approaches that envision young people’s social networks after protective interventions have been implemented. The article explains that such an approach has the potential to reconcile the competing challenges of being responsive to young people’s needs while anticipating the heightened risk of being exposed to sexual abuse young people face when estranged from their families or after their trust in professionals has been eroded.

scholarly journals Oncology social work intervention index (OSWii): An instrument to measure oncology social work interventions to advance research

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Julianne S. Oktay ◽  
Elizabeth A. Rohan ◽  
Karen Burruss ◽  
Christine Callahan ◽  
Tara J. Schapmire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Oncology Social Work ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
Social Work Interventions

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the calls of humanistic social work: Exploring the developmental-clinical social work concerns of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110079
Author(s):  
Robert K Chigangaidze
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Health Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Any health outbreak is beyond the biomedical approach. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes a calamitous need to address social inequalities prevalent in the global health community. Au fait with this, the impetus of this article is to explore the calls of humanistic social work in the face of the pandemic. It calls for the pursuit of social justice during the pandemic and after. It also calls for a holistic service provision, technological innovation and stewardship. Wrapping up, it challenges the global community to rethink their priorities – egotism or altruism. It emphasizes the ultimate way forward of addressing the social inequalities.

scholarly journals SWK-12. PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOGY PARENT PERSPECTIVE ON ASPECTS OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR ONLINE APPLICATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii466-iii467
Author(s):  
Kendra Koch ◽  
Tatum Fettig ◽  
Meghan Slining
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Online Application ◽  
Parent Perspective ◽  
Social And Emotional

Abstract Addressing family needs for social/emotional support is part of the duty of oncology care teams. This research presents a (2020) scoping review and a (2019) focus group initiated to explore pediatric neuro-oncology parent experience of social/emotional support in conjunction with developing an online peer application to address family needs. Currently, the value of online support is in the forefront of clinical conversation. The focus group queried eight parents whose children were under neuro-oncology treatment in the Northwest USA. Thematic findings include—parents want supportive peers who have (1) a personal and deep understanding of parenting a child with serious illness (they “get it”); (2) particular characteristics and skills that promote and sustain relationships, including—(a) good social skills, (b) ability to engage in “balanced” (cancer/non-cancer) conversations, (c) individual similarities (beliefs, age of children, cancer diagnosis/treatment), (d) logistic commonalities (location, availability), (e) pro-social personal characteristics (i.e. sense of humor, emotional/social flexibility), and an (f) ability to navigate and maintain social/emotional boundaries. Parents also initiated discussion about “the burden of supportive relationships” and supporting families doing “normal” activities without worrying about treatment side effects and contagions. The literature review supports finding (1) above; reveals the paucity of evidence-based supports available to this population; underscores the critical need for practitioners and researchers to develop more evidence-based supports and interventions for families of children experiencing cancer; and supports practitioners’ consistently assessing parent and sibling social and emotional needs and then consistently referring or intervening when needs are identified.

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