{"title":"Book Reviews—Introduction","authors":"Peter Unwin","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcad126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135628877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Children’s Rights to Participate in Out-of-Home Care, edited by Claudia Equit and Jade Purtell, contains a range of thought-provoking articles from scholars in Australia, North America and Europe about the rights of looked-after children and adolescents to participate in the decisions that affect them. The book weaves across the globe considering young people’s participation in the informal and formal decision-making processes available to them within the child welfare system. The complex issue of participation is considered from both a theoretical and practical standpoint, and a common theme that quickly emerges is the universality of the barriers that exist to ensuring meaningful participation for young people growing up outside of their biological family. The book is largely framed in the context of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which sets out children’s rights to participate in decisions that affect them. Case studies and other qualitative methodologies are used to discuss various countries’ commitment to young people’s participation. It quickly becomes clear that different countries approach their responsibilities to young people who are unable to live with their biological families in a myriad of different ways, and operate within different child welfare policies and practices. However, it just as quickly becomes painfully apparent that each country could be doing better with regard to the practical implementation of their commitment to Article 12.
{"title":"Children’s Rights to Participate in out-of-Home Care: International Social Work Contexts, Claudia Equit and Jade Purtell (eds.)","authors":"Annie Smith","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcad066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad066","url":null,"abstract":"Children’s Rights to Participate in Out-of-Home Care, edited by Claudia Equit and Jade Purtell, contains a range of thought-provoking articles from scholars in Australia, North America and Europe about the rights of looked-after children and adolescents to participate in the decisions that affect them. The book weaves across the globe considering young people’s participation in the informal and formal decision-making processes available to them within the child welfare system. The complex issue of participation is considered from both a theoretical and practical standpoint, and a common theme that quickly emerges is the universality of the barriers that exist to ensuring meaningful participation for young people growing up outside of their biological family. The book is largely framed in the context of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which sets out children’s rights to participate in decisions that affect them. Case studies and other qualitative methodologies are used to discuss various countries’ commitment to young people’s participation. It quickly becomes clear that different countries approach their responsibilities to young people who are unable to live with their biological families in a myriad of different ways, and operate within different child welfare policies and practices. However, it just as quickly becomes painfully apparent that each country could be doing better with regard to the practical implementation of their commitment to Article 12.","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135906768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The text offers eighteen well-constructed short chapters, set out in three broad parts, plus a conclusion. The first part sets the scene with chapters on context, models of coaching and how coaching relates to other types of intervention. Part 2 has six separate chapters elaborating on different elements of skills and knowledge which are necessary to develop good coaching conversations. Part 3 moves the focus onto clinical care and mental health settings. The author begins with the observation that ‘in the twenty first century it seems, coaches are everywhere we look’. She acknowledges and addresses at the outset some of the criticisms that have come with the apparent ubiquity of coaching and notes that she is sympathetic to some of the critics of the coaching zeitgeist. Throughout the text, the author uses her dual experiences of twenty-five years as a practising psychiatrist, and years of experience as a coach, to good effect. She constructs a narrative that provides the reader with a clear understanding of the principles of coaching, the current evidence to support it and then the impact that it can have, via well-selected case studies.
{"title":"<b>Coaching in Mental Health Service Settings and Beyond: Practical Applications—Practical Applications</b>, Jenny Forge","authors":"Jim Rogers","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcad007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad007","url":null,"abstract":"The text offers eighteen well-constructed short chapters, set out in three broad parts, plus a conclusion. The first part sets the scene with chapters on context, models of coaching and how coaching relates to other types of intervention. Part 2 has six separate chapters elaborating on different elements of skills and knowledge which are necessary to develop good coaching conversations. Part 3 moves the focus onto clinical care and mental health settings. The author begins with the observation that ‘in the twenty first century it seems, coaches are everywhere we look’. She acknowledges and addresses at the outset some of the criticisms that have come with the apparent ubiquity of coaching and notes that she is sympathetic to some of the critics of the coaching zeitgeist. Throughout the text, the author uses her dual experiences of twenty-five years as a practising psychiatrist, and years of experience as a coach, to good effect. She constructs a narrative that provides the reader with a clear understanding of the principles of coaching, the current evidence to support it and then the impact that it can have, via well-selected case studies.","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136176851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This very affirming narrative by Richard Keagan-Bull, unassumingly subtitled ‘Memories of a man with learning disabilities’, shows what can be achieved by heeding his plea: ‘Don’t put us away’. His is a journey of triumph over adversity, but not without setbacks and frustrations and aided by a great deal of support, starting with his indomitable mother and building up a strong support network both in the community and in employment. The 1970s onwards began an empowering age for those with a learning disability, starting with the Special Needs Committee in 1974, White Papers such as Valuing People in 2001 and the Equality Act 2010. The Carers Movement was also well established by this time. Richard’s mother would no doubt have been very active in this respect! This well-illustrated book is clearly set out in sections, covering aspirations that are still relevant today: growing up, education, relationships, employment, having a place to live and not only finding a voice but also being able to use it as a persuasive advocate for people with a learning disability. The style is very accessible, with a mix of conversational and academic styles, both of which produce points for reader reflection. The book should interest health and social care practitioners, Learning Disability commissioners and anyone concerned with social justice.
{"title":"Don’t Put Us Away: Memories of a Man with Learning Disabilities, Richard Keagan-Bull","authors":"Anne Duddington","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad006","url":null,"abstract":"This very affirming narrative by Richard Keagan-Bull, unassumingly subtitled ‘Memories of a man with learning disabilities’, shows what can be achieved by heeding his plea: ‘Don’t put us away’. His is a journey of triumph over adversity, but not without setbacks and frustrations and aided by a great deal of support, starting with his indomitable mother and building up a strong support network both in the community and in employment. The 1970s onwards began an empowering age for those with a learning disability, starting with the Special Needs Committee in 1974, White Papers such as Valuing People in 2001 and the Equality Act 2010. The Carers Movement was also well established by this time. Richard’s mother would no doubt have been very active in this respect! This well-illustrated book is clearly set out in sections, covering aspirations that are still relevant today: growing up, education, relationships, employment, having a place to live and not only finding a voice but also being able to use it as a persuasive advocate for people with a learning disability. The style is very accessible, with a mix of conversational and academic styles, both of which produce points for reader reflection. The book should interest health and social care practitioners, Learning Disability commissioners and anyone concerned with social justice.","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135694551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call the Social, Julia Ross","authors":"Stacey Hodgkins","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136082611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) is a complex and often stigmatising diagnosis. Although falling under the remit of mental health services, it is not always seen as a mental health need, and research suggests that if parents or carers are not provided with more holistic support, parental mental health will deteriorate with children likely to have poorer outcomes, placing them at an increased risk of harm. This likelihood of harm increases with compounding factors such as substance misuse and domestic abuse. One organisation alone cannot effectively address the complex difficulties that people with this diagnosis may experience, thus inter-agency working is necessary. This article explores the barriers and facilitators to inter-agency working to support parental care-givers with a diagnosis of EUPD between Children’s Social Care and a Community Mental Health Team within the same English area. Five mental health care coordinators and two children and families’ social workers who had experience working with this client group were interviewed. Participants identified the challenges and benefits of working with their partner agency around communication, knowledge, stigmatisation and resources. The research provides suggestions to develop current inter-agency working relationships and to enhance care and support available to people experiencing the diagnosis.
{"title":"How Effective are Current Joint Working Practices between Children and Family Social Workers and Mental Health Care Coordinators, in Supporting Families in which there is a Primary Care-giver, with a Diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder?","authors":"Lauren Martins, Laura A Tucker","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcac238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac238","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) is a complex and often stigmatising diagnosis. Although falling under the remit of mental health services, it is not always seen as a mental health need, and research suggests that if parents or carers are not provided with more holistic support, parental mental health will deteriorate with children likely to have poorer outcomes, placing them at an increased risk of harm. This likelihood of harm increases with compounding factors such as substance misuse and domestic abuse. One organisation alone cannot effectively address the complex difficulties that people with this diagnosis may experience, thus inter-agency working is necessary. This article explores the barriers and facilitators to inter-agency working to support parental care-givers with a diagnosis of EUPD between Children’s Social Care and a Community Mental Health Team within the same English area. Five mental health care coordinators and two children and families’ social workers who had experience working with this client group were interviewed. Participants identified the challenges and benefits of working with their partner agency around communication, knowledge, stigmatisation and resources. The research provides suggestions to develop current inter-agency working relationships and to enhance care and support available to people experiencing the diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135012747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Family services offer the possibility of producing data sets, capable of primary analyses to measure service efficacy, and secondary analyses to develop nuanced understandings of family needs. In this article, we report secondary analysis of data drawn from 1,151 families elicited upon intake to family centres in Ireland. The aim was to examine correlates of children’s socio-emotional functioning, with focus on the quality of relationships between children and parents. Participating families completed surveys containing socio-demographic questions and standardised instruments tapping into children’s social, emotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties, parents’ mental health, and closeness and conflict in parent–child relationship. Findings indicated that parents’ perceptions of their children’s socio-emotional functioning significantly influenced the quality of the child–parent relationship. Higher levels of conflict were significantly associated with psychological difficulties, whilst greater closeness was significantly related to prosocial behaviours. These relationships held after controlling for a range of child, parent and family socio-demographic variables, such as the child’s experience of chronic illness or stressful life events, both of which independently predicted poorer outcomes. Results are discussed in terms of the dynamic, reciprocal nature of family relationships whereby parent–child conflict and children’s problematic socio-emotional functioning likely influence, and are influenced by, each other.
{"title":"Socio-emotional adjustment in children attending family centres: The role of the parent–child relationship","authors":"Maria Calatrava, Lorraine Swords, Trevor Spratt","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcac241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac241","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Family services offer the possibility of producing data sets, capable of primary analyses to measure service efficacy, and secondary analyses to develop nuanced understandings of family needs. In this article, we report secondary analysis of data drawn from 1,151 families elicited upon intake to family centres in Ireland. The aim was to examine correlates of children’s socio-emotional functioning, with focus on the quality of relationships between children and parents. Participating families completed surveys containing socio-demographic questions and standardised instruments tapping into children’s social, emotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties, parents’ mental health, and closeness and conflict in parent–child relationship. Findings indicated that parents’ perceptions of their children’s socio-emotional functioning significantly influenced the quality of the child–parent relationship. Higher levels of conflict were significantly associated with psychological difficulties, whilst greater closeness was significantly related to prosocial behaviours. These relationships held after controlling for a range of child, parent and family socio-demographic variables, such as the child’s experience of chronic illness or stressful life events, both of which independently predicted poorer outcomes. Results are discussed in terms of the dynamic, reciprocal nature of family relationships whereby parent–child conflict and children’s problematic socio-emotional functioning likely influence, and are influenced by, each other.","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Social work and social work student placements in general practice [GP] can contribute to wholistic healthcare. The overall aims of this research were to develop, implement and evaluate a field education placement curriculum for social work student placements in GP clinics. Between December 2021 and June 2022, six students completed their social work placements in four GP practices in North Queensland. Data collection included student records and an online survey that invited students, field educators, task supervisors, mentors, allied health professionals and GPs to provide feedback about the usefulness of the developed materials, the benefits and challenges of the placements, the services provided by the students, patient outcomes and feedback, social work learning, service delivery overall and the value of, and satisfaction with, the social work GP placements. Social work student placements in GP practices offer a valuable broadening of field education learning opportunities for social work and can benefit GP settings. Such placements need to be particularly carefully scaffolded and supported through a comprehensive curriculum, supervision, and a welcoming GP setting. Students interested in embarking in such a learning journey need to be highly confident and competent in social work practice.
{"title":"Evaluation of Social Work Student Placements in General Practice","authors":"Ines Zuchowski, Simoane McLennan, Tarun Sen Gupta","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcac244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac244","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social work and social work student placements in general practice [GP] can contribute to wholistic healthcare. The overall aims of this research were to develop, implement and evaluate a field education placement curriculum for social work student placements in GP clinics. Between December 2021 and June 2022, six students completed their social work placements in four GP practices in North Queensland. Data collection included student records and an online survey that invited students, field educators, task supervisors, mentors, allied health professionals and GPs to provide feedback about the usefulness of the developed materials, the benefits and challenges of the placements, the services provided by the students, patient outcomes and feedback, social work learning, service delivery overall and the value of, and satisfaction with, the social work GP placements. Social work student placements in GP practices offer a valuable broadening of field education learning opportunities for social work and can benefit GP settings. Such placements need to be particularly carefully scaffolded and supported through a comprehensive curriculum, supervision, and a welcoming GP setting. Students interested in embarking in such a learning journey need to be highly confident and competent in social work practice.","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135555611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Call for Support: Social Worker Health, Well-being and Working Conditions","authors":"Jermaine M Ravalier","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcac246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135077605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philip A Kocheril, Kiersten D Lenz, David D L Mascareñas, John E Morales-Garcia, Aaron S Anderson, Harshini Mukundan
Rapid, on-site diagnostics allow for timely intervention and response for warfighter support, environmental monitoring, and global health needs. Portable optical biosensors are being widely pursued as a means of achieving fieldable biosensing due to the potential speed and accuracy of optical detection. We recently developed the portable engineered analytic sensor with automated sampling (PEGASUS) with the goal of developing a fieldable, generalizable biosensing platform. Here, we detail the development of PEGASUS's sensing hardware and use a test-bed system of identical sensing hardware and software to demonstrate detection of a fluorescent conjugate at 1 nM through biotin-streptavidin chemistry.
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