“After-Care” and Other Aspects of Social Service as an Adjunct to Mental Treatment

1930 ◽  
Vol 76 (315) ◽  
pp. 622-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Lord
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
After Care ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mental Treatment

Although the subject of my short address is named on the agenda “After Care,” I am privileged by your chairman to touch upon the activities of social workers generally in regard to the welfare of the mentally afflicted.

scholarly journals WORK EFFECTIVENESS FACTORS IN THE OPINION OF SOCIAL SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES – RESEARCH STATEMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 581-588
Author(s):  
Ewa Grudziewska ◽  
Marta Mikołajczyk
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Work Effectiveness ◽  
Effectiveness Factors ◽  
The Subject

The subject of the analysis presented in this paper are work effectiveness factors in the opinion of social workers and probation officers. The research was conducted among 121 persons: 64 probation officers executing judgments in family and minors related cases, and 57 social workers. The method of a diagnostic survey was applied during the research. The results show that 62,5% of probation officers consider their work effectiveness as moderate and 31,2% consider their work effective when 64,9% of social workers consider their work moderately effective and 31,6% claim their work is effective. Undoubtedly, the effectiveness of work of both probation officers and social workers depends largely - in the opinion of respondents - on their professional experience and skills, good contacts with the local community in which they work or work autonomy, though the high prestige of the profession is not a factor supporting effectiveness of their work. The presented research results can not refer to the entire population of representatives of these two professions, but they indicate further directions of research on the broadly understood professional identity of representatives of social services inPoland.

Team Managers in Local Social Service Departments in Israel as Bottom-Up Social Policy-Makers

2021 ◽  
pp. 324-345
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychosocial Services ◽  
Service Departments ◽  
New Policies

Following on Felice Perlmutter's work on the managerial role of social workers in social services, this article contributes to the still limited knowledge on the role of social workers in middle-management positions in formulating new policies `on the ground`. The study expands knowledge about policies determined by team managers in local social service departments in Israel. It occurs in the nexus between street-level bureaucracy, professionalism and managerial positions. Semi-structured interviews with 28 team managers revealed that they formulated `new` policies with regard to the provision of psychosocial services and material assistance (who gets what, when and how). This occurs when they resist official policy, when it is vague or non-existent. Most of their policy decisions are not documented and draw upon consultations with colleagues and superiors though not with clients. The team managers perceive these policies as a means for achieving balance between clients' well-being and budgetary constraints. Yet their decisions lack transparency, are decided upon without public discourse and may lead to greater inequity between clients

Head Start and Social Work

1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Frankel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Service Component ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Head Start Programs

The author states that the social work profession is not sufficiently involved with Head Start. Data from a representative sample of Head Start programs shows the minimal role professional social workers play with Head Start even when ample financial resources to hire BSWs or MSWs are available. Evidence suggests, however, that Head Start is open to increased professional social work involvement. The author presents reasons social work professionals are underrepresented in Head Start and recommendations for increasing professional involvement and influence. The author also discusses the history and current status of Head Start, including a thorough description of Head Start's social service component.

Prematurity: The Diagnosis, Care and Disorders of the Premature Infant

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-226
Author(s):  
JOSEPH DANCIS
Keyword(s):  
Premature Infant ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Fetus ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Complete Development ◽  
Complete Treatment ◽  
The Subject

The publisher states on the fly-leaf, "This book is an endeavor to meet the need of the whole team of workers"—clinicians, investigators, nurses, social workers, etc. This is an impossible objective, and it is doubtful that the author hoped to achieve it. However, it is evident that he did plan a very complete treatment of the subject of prematurity. The result is a large book (587 pages), wealthy in detail and in bibliography, with about one-third devoted to physiology in the broad sense and the rest to the clinical aspects of the premature infant. Dr. Corner has put much effort into this work, and the resulting volume has much to reward the reader. However, the attempt to be all-encompassing was unfortunate. The review of the complete development of the human fetus is so cursory as to contribute little of value to the physician.

Occupational Social Work

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Kurzman
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Occupational Social Work

Occupational (industrial) social work, one of the newest fields of policy and practice, has evolved since the mid-1960s to become a dynamic arena for social service and practice innovation. Focusing on work, workers, and work organizations, occupational social work provides unique opportunities for the profession to affect the decisions and provisions of management and labor. Despite the risks inherent in working in powerful and often proprietary settings, being positioned to help workers, their families, and job hunters enables professional social workers to have the leverage both to provide expert service and to become agents of progressive social change.

Addiction Under the Mental Treatment Act, Eire, 1945

1949 ◽  
Vol 95 (400) ◽  
pp. 693-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Eustace
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Mental Treatment

Many writers on the subject of the treatment of addictions have suggested that for treatment to be efficacious, a period of detention legally enforced is necessary, and it is perhaps strange that a country which tends to regard personal failings and idiosyncrasies with a kindly eye has been probably the first to provide a method of enforcing it without recourse to a legal sentence.

Reminiscences of “After-care” Association, 1879—1898

1898 ◽  
Vol 44 (185) ◽  
pp. 299-304
Author(s):  
H. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
After Care ◽  
Care Association ◽  
The Subject

As far back as 1871 a paper named “A Plea for Convalescent Homes in connection with Asylums for the Insane Poor” was admitted by the Editors, Drs. Maudsley and Sibbald, into the Journal of Mental Science. In 1879 an article called “After-care,” by the Rev. H. Hawkins, Chaplain of the Colney Hatch Asylum, was allowed a place in the same Journal. The then Editors were Drs. Clouston, Hack Tuke, and Savage. On the 5th June of the same year a meeting was held at the house of Dr. Bucknill, 39, Wimpole Street, to consider the subject of the “After-care of Poor and Friendless Female Convalescents on leaving Asylums for the Insane.” There were present Dr. and Mrs. Bucknill, Miss Cons, Dr. D. Hack Tuke, Mr. W. G. Marshall, Dr. Harrington Tuke, and others. A paper on the above-named subject was read. It was moved by Dr. C. Lockhart Robertson, and seconded by Dr. Hack Tuke—“That this meeting do form itself into an Association.” The names of Dr. S. Duckworth-Williams and of Dr. Savage were added to those already given. It was moved by Dr. Robertson, and seconded by Mr. W. Gr. Marshall—“That Dr. Bucknill be invited to take the office of President.” Also moved by Dr. Harrington Tuke, and seconded by Dr. Bucknill—“That the Rev. H. Hawkins take the office of Secretary.” These resolutions were unanimously carried. Later in the summer a meeting of ladies to consider the same subject was held at 84, Portland Place. Miss Cons consented to accept temporarily the office of Ladies' Secretary. Later in the same year another meeting was held at Dr. Bucknill's.

Social Work and Social Entrepreneurship: Opportunities for Synergy and Social Change

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Rukshan Fernando
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Private Support

Today's world faces unprecedented complexities. Governments, businesses, and nonprofits have far to go in solving these problems. The economic recession of 2007 exposed a significant decline in public and private support for social services (Pitt- Catsouphes & Berzin, 2015) and the need for social workers to facilitate new ways of addressing the complex, interwoven problems of poverty, racism, social inequity, and discrimination. Now more than ever, social workers need to understand how social services can utilize new strategies with new solutions to address these issues (Berzin, 2012). ). Shuman & Fuller (2005) coined the phrase “revolution will not be funded,” indicating that nonprofits all over the country must devise new incomegenerating strategies to empower disadvantaged groups. Although the media reports that the U.S. economy has rebounded, foundations and governments still expect social service nonprofits to leverage new forms of revenue to fulfill their missions. There is also some uncertainty about how nonprofits will be funded long term as local, state, and federal government dollars dry up. In addition, some claim that social service organizations develop complex programs that do not match the interests of funders (Foster, Kim, & Christensen, 2009).

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