Building Bridges Between Social Work and Prenatal Psychology

This issue of Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention is dedicated to decea- sed co-founder of our Journal and President of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine, Director of the First Department of Peri- natal Psychology and Medicine, Honorary Doctor and holder of Honorary Degrees and Medals of multiple Universities in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Malaysia, etc, Doctor of Medicine and Psychology and Editor in chief of four Medical Journ- als: Acta Neurosa Superioris Rediviva, Neuroendocrinology Letters, Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention and Int. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (1-4). Together with his spouse Lili Maas, ArtD., who added to the exact science, arts and her heart and love, all of those Journals were not only reading of naked facts and theories, or science but both were teaching us to accept psycho- logy, social work and medicine as art culture and love, what is more than science and knowledge, more than facts. (From the letter of St. Paul and two letters of St. Peter, New Testament)

Freed, Anne O.

Anne O. Freed (1917–2012) is among the pioneers in clinical social work in the United States. She served as a clinician, administrator, researcher, lecturer, and mentor. She advanced clinical social work practice and furthered the awareness of mental health issues in geriatric practice. Anne introduced clinical social work to Bulgaria.

Berufliche Teilhabe nach erworbener Hirnschädigung

Vocational participation after acquired brain injury – an empirical study of opportunities and barriers from the perspective of affected patients and vocational expertsT. BrehmAbstractThe following article summarizes the results and scientific findings of an empirical study on vocational participation after acquired brain injury. It describes opportunities and barriers from the perspective of affected patients and vocational experts. The empirical study was conducted in the context of a degree course on clinical social work. Essential results related to acquired brain injuries are that invisible disabilities and neu-ropsychological deficits complicate opportunities so that continuous support is needed. At the same time, the acceptance of deficits and changing work related opportunities seem to be resources. Seniority, colleagues, and the relationships between them, seem to play ano-ther important role. Risk factors are a change of leadership, change of work content and problematic relationships between colleagues. A big problem seems to be the cooperation with responsible payers (social insurance). In conclusion, the possibility of rehabilitation depends on the willingness of responsible payers. Keywords: acquired brain injury, rehabilitation phase E, return-to-work, profes-sional reintegration, integration assistance, case management

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

Due 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.