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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This article reports on a quantitative study of the national datasets for adult social care in England. Building on recent analysis of trends in demand and expenditure, the aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between local authority (LA) characteristics, levels of demand for state-funded services and rates of short- and long-term provision. Publicly available data on short- and long-term activity and finances were collected for all LAs in England from 2016 to 2019 and combined with other indicators including population demographics and the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Correlation analysis was undertaken to investigate patterns of demand and provision and their link to contextual factors. Findings showed that variation between LAs was to some extent shaped by contextual factors such as deprivation and demographics, but was also subject to the effects of rationing and the impact of the self-funded market on levels of demand. Implications are discussed for efforts to reform the adult social system and address longstanding inequalities that have been both highlighted and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This book includes sixteen chapters written by a diverse group of fortyeight authors from across the fields of health, social work and social care. These authors have multiple identities in their fields and bring experiences of receiving services, providing services, research and the academy, activism and community work, advocacy and policy development. The book was published by Policy Press as part of the Rapid Responses pandemic series. It is one of two volumes published on the theme of co-production in health and social care research, policy and practice. The books are both free and open access and this was funded by the Health Foundation. In this review, I will discuss Volume 1: The Challenges and Necessity of Co-production. I believe this book should be essential reading for all of us working in the fields of health, social work and social care. There are three reasons for this. The first relates to the way the book was written and what we can learn from this. As the editors explain in the introduction to the book, in what I expect is a bit of an understatement, bringing together such a large and diverse group of authors during a pandemic was a ‘challenge’. However, they sought to develop the book in a way that reflected the principles of participatory practice. This meant that they worked to support a diverse range of different contributions and enable new collaborations. The editors highlight that achieving their participatory aims for the book was not easy and they suggest they were not always successful. Despite this, it is clear they have achieved something really unique and important. They have managed to bring together a genuinely diverse range of authors, centring voices and experiences that are often marginalised within the academy. For example, Chapter 8 Sovereign and
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I. Zuchowski, H. Cleak, Sandra Croaker, Josh Davey
Summary COVID-19 in 2020 took social work programmes by surprise and for many students an e-placement was offered as the only alternative learning opportunity to complete their placement that year. In this article, we report on a mixed method study with data collected via an online survey with quantitative and qualitative questions exploring students’ experiences in e-placements. Eighty-two students who had undertaken an e-placement responded to the survey that was sent to 1,500 social work students enrolled in twenty-one Australian universities. The results summarise demographic data about the students and a description of the e-placements used, as well as qualitative themes about the students’ experiences and recommendations about e-placements. Four themes were prominent in the qualitative data: ‘opportunities for flexible learning but can be challenging’, ‘learning new skills but missing out on others’, ‘drive your own learning’ and ‘the need for structure, support and connection’. Most students reported that they learnt a range of social work skills, but this required them to take initiative to ensure that learning occurred. The implication for social work education underscores the importance of future proofing social work field education through examining the learning and providing proactive support and clear structures for alternatives to traditional placements.
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{"title":"Conversation with the Twenty-First Century Social Work: Some ‘Post(s)’ Perspectives","authors":"R. Yadav","doi":"10.1093/BJSW/BCAB212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJSW/BCAB212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43328053","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":"Dare to Dream: The Changing Role of Social Work in Supporting Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities","authors":"Randy Neuman, D. Bryen","doi":"10.1093/BJSW/BCAB195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJSW/BCAB195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46534103","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 After more than a year living with COVID-19 restrictions, the UK Governments have now published their ‘recovery strategies’ in which social care has been considered as key to plans for post-COVID-19 recovery in England and the devolved nations. Emerging literature has already explored the ethical and practical challenges facing social workers during COVID-19 and how social work practice has been re-created to embrace hybrid ways of working. To add to this discussion, a secondary qualitative data analysis was performed on a subset of data (280 responses submitted by 176 social workers) collected from the British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) survey on social work during COVID-19, to explore how social workers’ sensual bodies had been responding to challenges arising from the pandemic. Drawing on sociology of senses and social work literature on tacit knowing and practice wisdom, we will present how social workers’ sensual bodies have been suspended, displaced and re-constituted during the first UK national lockdown, leading to sensual compensation and sensual overload that impacted on social workers’ practice. In striving towards a ‘better normal’, we offer key insights to implement hybrid social work practice and protect against the shortfalls that it might bring to the profession.
{"title":"Social Workers’ Sensual Bodies during COVID-19: The Suspended, Displaced and Reconstituted Body in Social Work Practice","authors":"Sui-Ting Kong, Catrin Noone, J. Shears","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcab207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab207","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After more than a year living with COVID-19 restrictions, the UK Governments have now published their ‘recovery strategies’ in which social care has been considered as key to plans for post-COVID-19 recovery in England and the devolved nations. Emerging literature has already explored the ethical and practical challenges facing social workers during COVID-19 and how social work practice has been re-created to embrace hybrid ways of working. To add to this discussion, a secondary qualitative data analysis was performed on a subset of data (280 responses submitted by 176 social workers) collected from the British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) survey on social work during COVID-19, to explore how social workers’ sensual bodies had been responding to challenges arising from the pandemic. Drawing on sociology of senses and social work literature on tacit knowing and practice wisdom, we will present how social workers’ sensual bodies have been suspended, displaced and re-constituted during the first UK national lockdown, leading to sensual compensation and sensual overload that impacted on social workers’ practice. In striving towards a ‘better normal’, we offer key insights to implement hybrid social work practice and protect against the shortfalls that it might bring to the profession.","PeriodicalId":48259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44831286","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}
A. Maddock, Pearse McCusker, C. Blair, A. Roulston
During their social work education, students engage in a number of stressful learning activities, often simultaneously, which can negatively impact their well-being, mental health and social work practice. Mindfulness practices are beginning to be integrated into social work curricula globally to enhance student self-care along with key social work practice skills and values. This mixed methods study examined the effects of a bespoke six-week online mindfulness-based social work and self-care (MBSWSC) programme on the stress, burnout, well-being, anxiety and depression levels of thirty social work students from two universities in the UK. This study also examined the effects of MBSWSC on a number of mindfulness-based mediators of change in these outcomes. Participant perceptions of the benefits of the MBSWSC programme on their well-being and social work practice are further explored via a thematic analysis of an open-ended questionnaire. Statistically significant changes in all variables were found post-programme except for depression and loss of empathy/depersonalisation, a facet of burnout. The qualitative data provided a deeper insight into the potential benefits of the programme for the enhancement of student well-being, mental health and anti-oppressive social work practice (AOP). of social work students; (ii) examine if MBSWSC is effective at improving mindfulness, attention regulation, acceptance, self-compassion, non-attachment and aversion, worry and rumination; (iii) explore the experience of social work students who completed the MBSWSC programme.
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P. McFadden, R. Neill, J. Mallett, J. Manthorpe, P. Gillen, J. Moriarty, D. Currie, H. Schroder, J. Ravalier, P. Nicholl, J. Ross
Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic interest into its potential impact on mental well-being has intensified. Within the social care sector, the pandemic has increased job demands and prolonged stress taking a disproportionate toll on the workforce, particularly social workers. This article compares the mental well-being and quality of working life of social workers in the United Kingdom (UK) before and during the pandemic. Data were collected in 2018 (N = 1,195) and 2020 (N = 1,024) using two cross-sectional surveys. To account for the differences between the datasets, propensity score matching was employed prior to effect estimation, utilising demographic and work-related variables common to both datasets. The differences between the two time-points were estimated using multiple regressions. Both mental well-being and quality of working life were significantly higher during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018. This suggests that during the highpoint of the pandemic in the UK, increased support, and changes to working practices, such as reprioritisation of work and other initiatives, may be responsible for increased mental well-being and quality of working life. While acknowledging the known pressures on UK social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic this evidence suggests a mixed picture of the pandemic with lessons for managers and employers.
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Y. Kim, S. Moon, Mansoo Yu, Mee Young Um, Arati Maleku, O. Kehinde, David K. Pooler
Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, health risk behaviours related to substance use have been recognised as a significant public health concern amongst university students. Understanding the mechanisms of substance use behaviours, including those used to cope with COVID-19-related stressors, is imperative to curate targeted prevention efforts. To that end, we examined substance use prevalence and its associations with socio-demographic characteristics, preventive behaviours, and mental health amongst US social work students. We collected data from 457 students across all degree levels (BSW, MSW and PhD) from July to August 2020 through an online survey, to examine thirty-day patterns of substance use behaviours related to cigarettes, electronic vapour products, alcohol, binge drinking and marijuana. Univariate and bivariate analyses revealed high rates of substance use behaviours, particularly alcohol use (71 per cent), binge drinking (35 per cent) and marijuana use (25 per cent). Findings also revealed significant associations amongst substance use, socio-demographic characteristics, and mental health. Amongst other implications, our study should encourage social work programmes to promote positive coping strategies amongst students and foster substance abuse prevention efforts, both to mitigate health risk behaviours and to enhance student well-being, both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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