Meta-analysis of Interventions With Co-occurring Disorders of Severe Mental Illness and Substance Abuse: Implications for Social Work Practice

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian L. Dumaine
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice

Cross-Cultural Considerations for Social Work Practice:

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Paula T. Tanemura Morelli
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Mental Illnesses

In the United States, our increasing populations of ethnic and racial minorities suffering with severe mental illnesses require culturally sensitive and culturally appropriate mental health services. The multiple facets of work involving culturally diverse individuals with severe mental illness challenge social work faculty to prepare students with salient, useful knowledge and skills. This teaching module, which utilizes the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia: Five-year follow-up findings (Leff et al., 1992) is applicable to practice, human behavior in the social environment, and policy courses. The module examines the findings of a large scale, longitudinal study of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia in nine countries. The learning process encourages students to think critically about the cross-cultural applicability of western diagnosis, treatment, and service provision models, to learn more about cultural constructions of illness and well-being, and to explore the nature of systemic and other barriers that prevent individuals with severe mental illness from obtaining services.

The End of Life Within Social Work Literature: A Conceptual Review

2019 ◽  
pp. 003022281983565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Holland ◽  
Stephanie Grace Prost
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Treatment Responsiveness

The current conceptual review sought to identify and describe how the end of life was conceptualized and operationalized in top-ranking, peer-reviewed social work journals considering the highly individualized and multidimensional experience of dying put forth by modern scholars and social work practitioners. An iterative content analysis of included articles ( N = 103) revealed six themes within reported definitions and four themes within eligibility criteria. Definitions ( n = 66) related to treatment responsiveness, the death process, dying, prognosis, admission to specific services, and old age. Eligibility criteria ( n = 18) related to proxy assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and functional ability assessments. Over one-third of included articles did not define what was meant by the end of life (36%; n = 37) and the majority did not include eligibility criteria (83%; n = 85). In conclusion, the complex lived experience of dying was not manifest within included articles raising important implications for research (e.g., measurement, meta-analysis) and social work practice (viz. service eligibility).

Talking about change – Positioning and interpretative repertoires in stories about substance abuse and change

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Bruland Selseng ◽  
Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Substance Abusing ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Interpretative Repertoires ◽  
Discursive Constructions

Understandings of as well as negotiations about change are constantly present in social work practice and in many instances these are decisive for how social work is formed. Employing discourse theories, this article analyses interpretative repertoires used by social workers in describing how they experience change and absence of change among clients having substance abuse problems, and how they position themselves accordingly. Examination of data drawn from interviews with counsellors working for the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration reveal three distinct subject positions in their discursive constructions of change and absence of change. These include (a) ‘the position of despair’, (b) ‘the position of limited professional responsibility’ and (c) ‘the position of resistance’ – each with its own distinctive set of interpretative repertoires. The article relates these to the complexities and varieties of constructions and understandings of change involved in working with substance abusing clients, where the counsellors’ experiences of success and of responsibility have central roles. In addition, the article shows that the institutional context is often significant for how change is constructed and understood by the counsellors.

Children, Substance Abuse and the Role of Social Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabo Diraditsile ◽  
Omogolo Mabote
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Design Data ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Institutional Review

The study determined children’s experiences of and views on substance abuse, and the role of social work practice. It adopted a quantitative approach using a descriptive survey design. Data were collected using structured questionnaires with a total of 100 randomly selected students from the Tshwaragano Junior Secondary School in Botswana. The data were coded and quantitatively analysed using SPSS. A research permit and permission to enter the school were obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the University of Botswana, and the Ministry of Education and Skills Development. Furthermore, parental or guardian informed consent was obtained before the data collection. The findings reveal that various illegal substances widely used by students manifested in psychosocial issues. Moreover, it was also affirmed that despite government programme interventions designed to end substance use in schools, the situation remained unabated. This paper recommends that social workers contribute to this area in order to play a greater role in advocating for their clientele to receive the most effective interventions so that they can fight substance abuse. The paper concludes that generating reliable empirical data will increase awareness on the subject with the aim of making schools a conducive and better environment for students.

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