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Authors:Rine C; LaBarre C. Pages: 141 - 144 Abstract: The Grand Challenges for Social Work introduced by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) offer a variety of opportunities for the profession to confront pressing societal issues. Each challenge brings renewed possibilities and pathways to address these far-reaching concerns through professional social work skills across varying levels of practice, policy, and research. The challenge to stop family violence is based on interdisciplinary cooperation among fields that aim to engage in ways to prevent abuse, recognize it earlier, support families, and end cycles of violence that can persist across generations (AASWSW, 2017). The two major routes to eradicate family violence are identified as ending gender-based violence (GBV) through the promotion of violence-free relationships (Edleson, Lindhorst, & Kanuha, 2015) and by improving methods to reduce profound and lethal child abuse (Barth, Putnam-Hornstein, Shaw, & Dickinson, 2016). In recent years, there has been a great deal of progress toward advancing prevention, intervention, and policies that reduce GBV and support healthy relationships devoid of violence. These efforts include introducing emergency shelter programs, distinguishing those at highest risk for violence through statistical methods, increasing social responsiveness to barriers among systems, and promoting violence-free relationships that result in healthy parenting and teenage rapport (Edleson et al., 2015). Approaches to diminish child abuse involve “implementation of birth match; expansion of safe haven laws; and improved integration of data on birth records, child-welfare involvement, and fatalities” (Barth et al., 2016, p. 1). Social work has much to offer in addressing these pervasive social issues and reducing their adverse outcomes. In particular, the profession is poised to introduce and lead innovative and proactive efforts that focus scarce resources on more efficient and timely approaches (Shaw, Barth, Mattingly, Ayer, & Berry, 2013). PubDate: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz020 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Evans E. Pages: 145 - 148 Abstract: In the upcoming (and already started) presidential campaigns, candidates are sure to present various visions of how to best expand medical coverage and improve health care delivery and outcomes. It is less certain how social workers will be factored into these visions of coverage and care. In the previous issue of Health & Social Work, Gehlert, Andrews, and Browne (2019) offered an outline of five key domains within which health social work can define itself while helping to strengthen the American health care system. In this column, I will discuss the role clinical social workers already play as mental health professionals and a related NASW policy priority. From there, I will pick up on the outline presented by Gehlert et al. (2019), expanding on their second item: addressing economic and environmental stressors in health care. This expansion includes introducing an orientation toward social work and health care integration that incorporates a wide scope of professional service. It entails pairing clinical services with those performed by social workers to help patients overcome “particular social difficulties”—a concept borrowed from German health and welfare policy (that is, Hilfe zur Überwindung besonderer sozialer Schwierigkeiten). Doing so could serve as the foundation on which to integrate a range of professional services performed by social workers at the micro, mezzo, and macro level in health care while centering efforts to confront social determinants of health. Furthermore, it could provide a rationale to receive payment within a U.S. insurance framework. PubDate: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz019 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Snow A; Cerel J, Loeffler D, et al. Pages: 149 - 155 Abstract: Contemporary research suggests that transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) adults encounter formidable barriers to health care, including access to quality therapeutic interventions. This systematic review is one of the first to specifically explore obstacles to TGNC mental health care. A rigorous literature review identified eight relevant studies: six qualitative designs and two quantitative designs. Thematic synthesis revealed three major barriers to care and five corresponding subthemes: (1) personal concerns, involving fear of being pathologized or stereotyped and an objection to common therapeutic practices; (2) incompetent mental health professionals, including those who are unknowledgeable, unnuanced, and unsupportive; and (3) affordability factors. Results indicate an acute need for practitioner training to ensure the psychological well-being of TGNC clients. PubDate: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz016 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Caravaca-Sánchez F; Fearn N, Vidovic K, et al. Pages: 157 - 166 Abstract: A growing body of literature on correctional populations from the past two decades indicates that a significant proportion of prison inmates report experiencing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) during childhood. Extant literature also suggests that women suffer disproportionate victimization at all life stages. The current study examines the prevalence and magnitude of the associations between ACEs, social support, and negative emotional states (that is, anxiety, depression, and stress) among a sample of incarcerated women—a small but growing correctional population. Data were obtained from a survey of women incarcerated in two prisons in Spain (N = 174); survey questions elicited information on these women’s emotional, physical, and sexual victimization during childhood in addition to their self-reported levels of social support and mental health. A series of analyses indicated that female inmates who reported ACEs similarly reported lower levels of social support and higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress as compared with nonvictimized women inmates. The findings reported here underscore the importance of attaining a fuller understanding of female inmates’ histories of ACEs so that we can more accurately identify and, ideally, provide necessary services to those women at highest risk of mental health–related problems during incarceration. PubDate: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz013 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Iachini A; Seay K, DeHart D, et al. Pages: 167 - 175 Abstract: Statewide behavioral health collaborative capacity-building initiatives are designed to support substance use agencies in strengthening their behavioral health services delivery and implementing evidence-supported practices. This study explored the types of innovations resulting from one such statewide behavioral health initiative, as well as the facilitators and barriers to implementing these innovations, from the perspective of the substance use agencies involved in the initiative. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 67 agency stakeholders and 93 agency progress reports. Results indicated that 161 innovations emerged through this project for the substance use agencies, including staffing; policy, procedure, and technology; partnerships; training and media products; and service innovations. Agency facilitators included collaboration/partnership, project buy-in, and quality of agency staff. Barriers to implementation included lack of collaboration or partnerships, agency infrastructure or climate, lack of project buy-in, and funding and billing issues. The article concludes with a discussion on implications for social work practice in behavioral health. PubDate: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz014 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Washington K; Khosla N, Lero C. Pages: 177 - 184 Abstract: The number of individuals of South Asian origin receiving health care in the United States is rapidly growing, yet little is known about their psychosocial needs. To better inform the provision of culturally competent social work services for this patient population, researchers sought to describe U.S. health care providers’ perceptions of the psychosocial needs of seriously ill patients of South Asian origin. To do so, they conducted a multimethod qualitative descriptive study, collecting data during focus groups and individual interviews of health care providers (N = 57) and analyzing them via directed content analysis. Identified patient needs included addressing financial and legal problems, challenges completing activities of daily living, spiritual or existential concerns, psychosocial experiences of unresolved physical symptoms, and psychological distress. Providers also emphasized the importance of supporting patients’ family members to aid in their caregiving abilities and to enhance their quality of life. As social workers in U.S. health care settings encounter a growing number of patients of South Asian origin, a more comprehensive understanding of their psychosocial needs is imperative. Study findings suggest that health social workers should provide psychosocial care that encompasses culture-specific needs and psychosocial care that can be provided in a culturally responsive manner. PubDate: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz015 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Antifaeff K. Pages: 185 - 192 Abstract: Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) recently became legal in Canada, and social workers have an integral role providing psychosocial care to those considering this end-of-life care option. Research has found that most requests for assisted dying have a psychosocial dimension. Social workers are uniquely equipped to understand the personal and contextual factors informing the choice for MAiD and offer supports. A case example highlights practice opportunities for social workers throughout the MAiD process. PubDate: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz002 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Kranke D; Barmak S, Weiss E, et al. Pages: 193 - 201 Abstract: The contextual factors and individual responses to the labeling of military-connected adolescents as “being in a military family” is an understudied yet important phenomenon. Minimal research construes the experience of being in a military family as a label applied to military-connected populations by people in society. However, social environmental factors associated with school setting among military-connected adolescents being in a military family have common components to the process of self-labeling. This article seeks to explore the concept and application of self-labeling by (a) providing a literature review of self-labeling among military-connected adolescents and (b) relying on modified labeling theory to identify any consistencies or potential nuances. The analysis of the process is strictly hypothetical, but could help to account for widely varying responses, sequence of events, and underlying reasons for the behaviors among some military-connected adolescents identified in the literature review and in light of the U.S. protracted military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Authors conclude by highlighting the need for future research to assess the adequacy of this self-labeling framework to ensure the healthy development of military-connected youths. PubDate: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz007 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Abrams T; Li X, Wyatt T, et al. Pages: 203 - 207 Abstract: In 2016, approximately 24,000 emergency room patients who presented with burn injuries met the American Burn Association’s (ABA) protocol for transfer or admission to burn centers (ABA, 2017). Burn treatment has progressed tremendously over the past five decades and while in the burn center all of patients’ needs are met by the burn care team. Immediately on discharge, families and frequently unprepared community providers are expected to assume patient care. Discharge instructions may be confusing, family members often feel insecure about performing painful wound care, and local health and mental health resources for burn patients may be lacking. Inadequate postdischarge wound care, even after successful hospitalization, may result in serious complications including infection, marginal healing, and unplanned hospital readmissions (Eidelson et al., 2018). The use of an mHealth mobile application (app) to supplement postdischarge care by providing additional guidance is believed to decrease unplanned hospital readmissions (Jenks, Williams, & Coleman, 2009). In this Practice Forum, we introduce the Bridge Mobile App for Burn Patients, review how the app was conceived, how content was developed, what the Bridge is intended to do, and how it will assist medical and community-based social workers in their work with discharging burn patients. PubDate: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz018 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Sas C. Pages: 208 - 211 Abstract: On the surface, it is common to assume that most patients with end-stage renal disease will get listed for a kidney transplant. Unfortunately, for many patients, this is not the case. The process of listing a patient for a transplant requires a rigorous medical examination and a mandatory psychosocial screening assessment. Clinical social workers are often asked why this assessment is important, what it accomplishes, and how it affects a patient’s ability to get listed. This column argues that the required psychosocial assessment is a key element in helping to determine whether a patient should be listed on the deceased donor transplant list. This assessment is crucial in determining a patient’s psychosocial suitability for a transplant, which ultimately ensures that this scarce resource is well used; it also tries to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients. Social workers have a dual role during this assessment: one to the transplanted organ and one to the patient. This column reviews what the social work assessment entails, presents a case example of a patient who should not have been listed right away based on assessment findings, and provides the social work assessment criteria for a kidney transplant compared with other types of organ transplants. PubDate: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlz012 Issue No:Vol. 44, No. 3 (2019)
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