The Contraction of Social Work

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
LaTonya J. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Comprehensive Management ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Organizational Problems ◽  
The Doors

This chapter describes the contraction of social work as intrinsic to understanding the story of nursing's expansion. The Forest Grove Elder Services' mandate of coordination and comprehensive management seemed like the perfect setting to showcase social work's expertise. Moreover, the Grove was mandated to hire social workers—a rarity in outpatient health care. Despite its having all the right organizational conditions, the doors of legitimacy never seemed to open for social work. Exploring how this occurred provides an opportunity to consider the relationship between nursing's professional gains and social work's losses. The chapter then shows how the logics and structural conditions that legitimate nursing's expansion are related to those that justified social work's contraction. Physician absence is undoubtedly a necessary condition for nursing's expansion; however, it is not a sufficient one. One must also understand how the NPs' incorporation of social and organizational problems into the clinic came to make more sense than having them resolved within social work.

scholarly journals Exposing health inequities: Surreal snapshots from the Grand Canyon to global COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Jean E Balestrery
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Grand Canyon ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Tribal Land

The story presented here is central to social work because it is about crisis. Across diverse fields of practice, social workers regularly engage in crisis intervention. The story that follows is about crisis in the area of health and healthcare. Specifically, it’s about exposing health/care inequities on Indigenous tribal land in the Grand Canyon and in the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Young people’s participation: views from social workers and independent reviewing officers

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Clive Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
Education Planning ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Personal Education ◽  
Children Rights

In this chapter social workers’ and independent reviewing officers’ views on the work they carry out with children in care are presented. Pressures on professionals were a recurrent concern. It was also noted that social workers’ understanding of the concept of participation was limited and the examples provided illustrated that children’s and young people’s participation was largely tokenistic. There appeared to be a disconnect/dissonance between professionals’ views of how important participation is and their actual practice with families. Social workers and IROs both stated that children’s participation was very important to them but then went onto explain that generally children played no role in deciding where the review took place, when it took place, who was invited and what was on the agenda. Social workers and IROs also stated that reviews took place without children to meet statutory timescales and that on occasions CIC reviews would take place just after Personal Education Planning meetings leading to very long meetings. Despite legislation giving children rights to have a say in their care and their wishes taken into consideration, there remains a lack of commitment to this from professionals, high caseloads, systemic pressures and a focus on completing paperwork rather than engaging meaningfully with children seems to be the reason for this. This appears to resonate with Forrester’s (2016) idea of ‘zombie social work’, and appears clear evidence of ‘doing things right instead of doing the right thing’ (Munro 2012).

Multiple-Influence Paradigms in Illness

1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 531-537
Author(s):  
Robert A. Perkins ◽  
Jack B. Parker ◽  
Barry M. Daste
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Systematic Development ◽  
The Relationship

Social workers can contribute to a theory of disease and health care by a systematic development of the relationship between socioeconomic factors and morbidity

Resilience and personality in social work students and social workers

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
María de las Olas Palma-García ◽  
Isabel Hombrados-Mendieta
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Subject Analysis ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The Relationship

The goal of the study was to explore the relationship between personality characteristics and the development of resilience in the context of social work. To do this, combining the transverse and longitudinal approaches, we investigated 479 students and professional social workers. For students, the within-subject analysis shows that this group, while pursuing a university degree, are reaching greater openness, accountability, extraversion and kindness and, by contrast, are reducing their levels of neuroticism, which is the personality trait that acquires smaller presence on the professional stage. The regression results also confirmed the influence and predictive ability of personality traits on the resilience of students and social workers.

Oppression

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Garcia ◽  
Dorothy Van Soest
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Power Arrangements

A firm grasp of the nature of oppression, with its dynamics of power and its systemic character, is required so that social workers can avoid unintended collusion with pervasive oppressive systems if they are to be successful in promoting social and economic justice. Recognizing the relationship between macro-level and micro-level dynamics and their implications for practice is an substantive part of social work practice. This perspective includes attention to the ubiquitousness of privilege and oppression and the potential consequences of ignoring this reality as complicity in and normalizing exclusionary and marginalizing behaviors. This article discusses the concept of oppression, its dynamics and common elements, and anti-oppressive practices that can expose and dismantle oppressive relationships and systemic power arrangements.

Main Street Revisited: Social Work Practice in Rural Areas

1986 ◽  
Vol 67 (8) ◽  
pp. 466-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen H. Waltman
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Rural Social Work ◽  
Main Street ◽  
Professional Development Needs ◽  
The Relationship

The unique aspects of rural social work practice are discussed, with emphasis on the relationship between rural values and primary social work methods and skills. Suggestions for meeting the professional development needs of rural social workers are presented.

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