Accountability in Clinical Practice

1978 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 330-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Haselkorn
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Critical Scrutiny

The concept of accountability in social work practice is examined and the dilemmas involved in separating accountability and evaluation receive critical scrutiny

scholarly journals Coparenting autistic children during COVID-19: Emerging insights from practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110138
Author(s):  
Sarah Southey ◽  
Rae Morris ◽  
Michael Saini
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Family Breakdown ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Therapeutic Services ◽  
Community Supports

Globally, parents and caregivers of children with autism have been particularly impacted by the recent changes due to COVID-19. Reduced access to schools, community supports, and therapeutic services makes parenting more challenging during the pandemic, and especially for parents with children with autism and who are experiencing family breakdown. There remains little guidance to assist coparenting autistic children during COVID-19 after separation and divorce. This brief paper summarizes emerging issues arising in clinical practice to offer recommendations for social work practice.

‘I Never Felt like an Illegal Immigrant Until Social Work Turned up at the Hospital’: No Recourse to Public Funds as Necropolitical Exception

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This article argues that the notion of ‘illegality’ has become a dominant aspect in social work practice for those who are subject to immigration control and have no recourse to public funds (NRPFs). Drawing together conceptual tools from the theoretical work of Giorgio Agamben and Achille Mbembé, necropolitical exception in social work will be explored to analyse how this has impacted upon racialised bodies within the UK immigration system. The findings presented in this article are based upon Ph.D. research conducted between July 2017 and October 2018 in Glasgow, Scotland, and includes ethnographic qualitative data from case studies with the Asylum Seeker Housing Project. It focuses on interviews that explore the lived experiences of those categorised as ‘illegalised’ migrants to examine the implications of necropolitical exception for those with NRPF, third sector caseworkers and statutory social workers. In framing those with NRPF as ‘illegal’, this article demonstrates that social workers have become drawn into agents of necropolitical exception that demands critical scrutiny.

scholarly journals Evaluating social work clinical practice in the real world

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-9
Author(s):  
Tomi Gomory
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Case Managers ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Single Subject Design

Roughly speaking there are at least 1.5 million and possibly over 2 million social workers in the world, many of whom work with individuals. This article focuses on one type of evaluation of social work practice, the evaluation of the outcome of help seeking for personal problems that is called clinical practice usually provided by social work case managers and therapists. The article primarily discusses Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT) developed in the early 2000s. It is a formal structured approach utilizing two validated very brief measures employed during every client session that can be graphed and is designed to evaluate the client’s wellbeing and the worker’s intervention throughout the course of treatment. The article argues that this is the best way for social workers to assess whether or not the client is benefitting from their work as well as evaluating the approach of the helping professional even though this well studied and effective approach is almost nonexistent in social work either in Europe or the United States. We also discuss single subject design that is the mainstay of social work evaluation of clinical practice courses taught for decades even though it is almost never used in actual practice.

scholarly journals Listening to our Stillness: Giving Voice to Our Spirituality (Spirituality & Clinical Practice)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Wagler-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Clinical Social Work Practice

This paper explores the integration of spirituality in clinical social work practice. Social Work’s history with respect to spirituality and practice, and the tensions that have existed, are reviewed. Further, the paper outlines a rationale for the importance of this integration, while also looking at obstacles to including spirituality in practice that some social workers encounter. Interventions are posed as a possible means to facilitate the integration of spirituality and clinical social work practice.

scholarly journals Psychodrama Practice in Clinical Social Work with Individuals

2021 ◽  
pp. 323-342
Author(s):  
Scott Giacomucci
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
One To One ◽  
Empty Chair ◽  
Auxiliary Ego

AbstractThis chapter is devoted to the clinical practice of psychodrama in individual sessions. Fundamental differences between psychodrama in groups and one-to-one contexts are discussed including the use of auxiliary roles, the therapeutic relationship, and modifications for basic psychodrama interventions. An overview of the use of the empty chair, objects, and/or the therapist as an auxiliary ego is included. The limitations and strengths of using psychodrama in individual sessions are discussed. Multiple psychodrama scenes (strengths-based, intrapsychic, and interpersonal) are depicted from a social work practice example with clinical processing.

scholarly journals Guidelines for Using Simulation for Online Teaching and Learning of Clinical Social Work Practice in the Time of COVID

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uschi Bay ◽  
Marcelo Maghidman ◽  
Jacinta Waugh ◽  
Aron Shlonsky
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Field Education ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Practice Skills

AbstractDue to COVID 19, Monash University’s Social Work Department moved all clinical practice skills teaching in the Master of Social Work (graduate entry level) fully online using synchronous audio-visual conferencing platform Zoom for the first time from March to June 2020. The innovations associated with this move included the development of clinical practice laboratories (CPLs) to prepare 154 students for a modified version of an Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) and their first field education practicum. The use of simulated clients to facilitate experiential learning of active listening skills, rapport-building and empathic communication in this mode of delivery is described in detail to encourage overcoming previous issues in teaching clinical practice skills to students located at a distance from campus.

scholarly journals Language is never neutral: a critical analysis of the language surrounding adoption in the UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Clapton
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
The Uk

In the light of increased attention to the role of social work in UK adoption practices, this article takes a ‘turn to language’ and examines the neglected field of the words and phrases commonly used in the adoption process. It subjects these to a critical scrutiny and suggests that the vocabulary employed contains inaccuracies, euphemisms, misnomers and aspirational promises and carries implications that limit options and determine outcomes. The article provides other examples from social work practice with children and families and concludes that a critical approach to a profession’s everyday language use can uncover how power is exercised.

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