Correlations between Satisfaction with Hairdressing Volunteer Services and Necessity of Such Volunteer Work for the Elderly in Social Workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Hyun Ju Jeung ◽  
◽  
Yong Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Volunteer Work

Social Workers’ Attempts to Navigate Among the Elderly, Their Families, and Foreign Home Care Workers in the Haredi Community

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 617-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anat Freund ◽  
Tova Band-Winterstein
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Cultural Bridge ◽  
Home Care Workers

Background: The study’s aim is to examine social workers’ experience in facilitating the integration of foreign home care workers (FHCWs) into the ultraorthodox Jewish (UOJ) community for the purpose of treating older adults. Method: Using the qualitative-phenomenological approach, semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 social workers in daily contact with UOJ older adult clients in the process of integrating FHCWs. Results: Data analysis revealed three central themes—integrating FHCWs into the aging UOJ family: barriers and challenges in the interaction between the two worlds; “even the rabbi has a FHCW”: changing trends in caring for older adults; and the social worker as mediator and facilitator of a successful relationship. Discussion: Social workers play a central role, serving as a cultural bridge in the process of integrating FHCWs, as a way of addressing the needs of ultraorthodox elderly and their families, while also considering the needs of the foreign workers.

Conflict Resolution

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Dispute System

Conflict resolution is a core competency for social workers, and social workers have contributed greatly to this thriving field. Conflict resolution as a field of practice includes mediation, facilitation, conflict coaching, dispute system design and management, and arbitration. Conflict professionals provide preventative, restorative, substantive, procedural, and decision-making services to people in conflict. The use of conflict resolution processes is rapidly growing in areas of traditional social work practice such as child welfare, special education, family counseling, care of the elderly, and medical care. This is a tremendous potential growth area for social work.

scholarly journals Meaningful Experience in Service Design for the Elderly: SAPAD Framework and its Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3081-3090
Author(s):  
Fei Hu ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Keiichi Sato
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Service System ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Guangzhou City ◽  
English Class ◽  
Empirical Level

AbstractA growing trend of aging population of China has brought tremendous pressure on the domestic care system, and community education is one of the important content for elderly services. Based on the framework of SAPAD, the community English class in Guangzhou City is taken for case study. Depth research on three stakeholeders-the elderly, social workers and volunteers are carried out by interview, user observation and field research. 6 levels (physical level, syntactic level, empirical level, semantic level, pragmatic level and social level) are extracted based on SAPAD framework, and the behavior- object-significance mapping is completed. Significant clusters of multiple users at different levels are analyzed, and 16 core significant clusters are jointly built. By linking with clustering results of the syntactic level, 6 new function modules are obtained. Finally, the community elderly education service system is built through personas, service blueprint, touch points and storyboard. The new service system will improve learning efficiency, satisfactions and emotional appeals for the elderly, and work efficiency of social workers and volunteers.

Baccalaureate Social Work Education and Courses on Aging: The Disconnect

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dara P. Bergel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Accreditation Standards ◽  
Gerontological Social Work ◽  
Work Education

In the year 2020, at least 60,000 to 70,000 social workers will be needed to work with the elderly. However, insufficient numbers of social work students are choosing to participate in the field of aging. This article discusses reasons, barriers, and the importance of increasing gerontological interest in BSW students. It provides curriculum-enhancing suggestions to expand student and faculty interest in aging education and the gerontological social work profession in the context of the Council on Social Work Educational (CSWE) Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS).

scholarly journals Evaluation of the health level of the elderly: patient care team considerations

2022 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Clara Duarte Monteiro ◽  
Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva Martins ◽  
Soraia Dornelles Schoeller
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Patient Care Team ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Braden Scale ◽  
Probabilistic Sample ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Share Information

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the differences of physicians, nurses, and social workers in the evaluation of the health status of the elderly. Methods: A cross-sectional quantitative study, using descriptive statistics. Non-probabilistic sample, consisting of 291 participants from three professional categories: 71 (24.4%) physicians, 192 (66%) nurses, and 28 (9.6%) social workers. We used a questionnaire including the variables: sociodemographic characteristics and instruments used for evaluation. Results: Instruments with greater utility for the evaluation of the elderly: for physicians, Mini Mental State Examination; for nurses, Braden scale; and for social workers, genogram. In the physical examination, the data most collected by physicians and nurses are the vital signs; and by social workers, the condition for performing the Activities of Daily Living. Conclusions: The evaluation of the elderly is based on a diversity of instruments and is an area in which health and social professionals need to share information.

scholarly journals The charitable activities as the basis of the social work

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Job Descriptions ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Charitable Activities

The growth in the number of the country’s charitable organizations, transformation of one-time humanitarian actions (charity) into regular social work with veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war (since 2014) and internally displaced persons from Donbas, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea have put on the agenda a study of the relationship between charitable activities and social work. The expansion of social work aimed at the elderly, which is often performed by the employees of territorial centers of social services beyond their job descriptions, also determines the relevance of this topic. The task of the study was to substantiate the place of charity in social work, based on the analysis of the activities of the Ukrainian charitable foundations, and employees of six territorial centers of social services in Kharkiv region. It was found that the All-Ukrainian social program “Home Care” of the International Charitable Foundation “Caritas Ukraine” represents social work with people who are not clients of territorial centers of social services. The Regional Landscape Park “Feldman Ecopark” (the flagship project of the International Charitable Foundation “Aleksandr Feldman Foundation”) is often used for social work, particularly with the elderly. It has been substantiated that the charitable activity of these foundations creates conditions for conducting systematic daily social work, in particular, with the elderly. The results of the expert survey of 16 social workers and 21 social workers of the territorial centers of social services of Bohodukhiv, Izium, Krasnokutsk, Lozova, Chuguiv, and Kharkiv districts of Kharkiv region show that charity occupies the leading place in their activities, creating conditions for social work. Charitable activities such as volunteering, social services of public/charitable organizations for the elderly are rightly regarded by experts as social work. The types of social work with the elderly in rural areas, carried out in spare time, such as helping in vegetable gardens, nature rides (in particular, to Feldman Ecopark), group communication on topical issues are referred by the experts to charitable activities. There is a partial overlapping of the subject areas of social work and charity, as well as a common goal – to help. Social workers and officials of the territorial centers of social services in Kharkiv region, performing daily social work with the elderly, often carry out charitable activities, too. It has been proved that charity helps to increase the efficiency of social work, solving many social problems of the territorial community.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATIVE POTENTIAL OF FUTURE SOCIAL WORKERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
Vitalii Zaika ◽  
Alla Heta ◽  
Yevheniia Vyshar
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Control Level ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Organizational Skills

The article highlights the topical issue of communicative potential of future social workers in their professional activities. Modern requirements for a social worker require ablity to interact with various groups of clients: children, adolescents, youth, the elderly or people with special needs, deviant or delinquent behavior, addicted to psychoactive substances, victims of violence, war, natural disasters. disasters, prisoners, etc. Social workers must be able to communicate effectively with representatives of various target groups in the social sphere, in order to provide social services. They are become skilled for conflict-free communication, self-control, capable to empathize, to listen and prove point of view. All these professional competencies can be reflected as the communicative potential of a social worker. For the purpose of empirical research of communicative potential psychodiagnostic methods were applied: Diagnosis of the need for communication (U.Orlov), Can you listen? (E.Rogov), Study of the level of communicative control (M.Schneider), Identification of communicative and organizational skills (B.Fedoryshyn), Determining the behavioral style in a conflict situation (K.Thomas). Based on psychodiagnostic methods, it was found that future social workers have high indicators of communication needs, listening skills, level of communication control, level of communication skills and the predominance of average level of organizational skills. Among the styles of behavior in a conflict situation, the dominant are cooperation and compromise, which indicates a desire to meet the needs of the communication partner. The data indicate a high level of development of the communicative potential of future social workers and their readiness for professional activity in the chosen field.

scholarly journals Secondary traumatic stress in social workersSosyal hizmet uzmanlarında ikincil travmatik stres

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 3676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esra Çalık Var ◽  
Ayşin Çetinkaya Büyükbodur
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Community Mental Health Centers ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mental Health Centers ◽  
Vulnerable Individual ◽  
Client System

Social workers work with children, with disabilities, with the elderly, with families. In short, with all client systems in the individuals and groups with harmed capacities to cope with the life challenges, in hospitals, community mental health centers, prisons, justice palaces and various social service organizations.Such a study requires that the vulnerable individual, the family and the groups to listen to the  life events that cause trauma, to observe the life of the application system, to ask for sadness witness and help, and all these are inevitably absorbed by social workers.As a result of the interaction with the client system and the issue emerge secondary traumatic stress, which represents a similar pattern to posttraumatic stress disorder.Secondary traumatic stress; is described as traumatization associated with emotions and behaviors that arise as a result of learn client’s trauma knowledge and want to help clients who have suffered trauma experience or life difficulties. The purpose of this study is to examine the secondary traumatic stresses and dimensions in the context of the interaction of the social worker client system with the social work perspective on the factors that are effective in the emergence of secondary traumatic stress.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetSosyal hizmet uzmanlarıyaşamsal zorluklarla baş etme kapasiteleri zarar görmüş birey ve gruplar ile hastanelerde, toplum ruh sağlığı merkezlerinde, ceza evlerinde, adalet saraylarında ve çeşitli sosyal hizmet kuruluşlarında çocuklarla, engellilerle, yaşlılarla, ailelerle kısacası tüm müracaatçı sistemleri ile çalışmaktadırlar. Böyle bir çalışma savunmasız durumda bulunan birey, aile ve grupların karşılaştıkları travmaya neden olan yaşam olaylarının dinlenmesini, müracaatı sisteminin yaşamını gözlemlemeyi, üzüntüye tanıklığı ve yardım etme istencini gerektirir ve bütün bunlar sosyal hizmet uzmanları tarafından kaçınılmaz bir biçimde absorbe edilmektedir.Müracaatçı sistemi ve sorun ile etkileşim neticesinde travma sonrası stres bozukluğu’na benzer bir yapıyı temsil eden ikincil travmatik stres ortaya çıkmaktadır. İkincil travmatik stres; travma öyküsü bulunan ya da yaşadığı yaşam zorlukları sebebi ile acı çeken müracaatçıların bilgisine hakim olma ve onlara yardım etmeyi istemenin sonucunda ortaya çıkan duygularla ve davranışlarla ilişkili travmatizasyon olarak açıklanmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı sosyal hizmet uzmanı müracaatçı sisteminin etkileşimi bağlamında, ikincil travmatik stres ve boyutlarını, ikincil travmatik stresin ortaya çıkmasında etkili olan faktörleri sosyal hizmet perspektifi ile incelemektir.

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