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Journal articles on the topic "Professional Culture, Mental Health Workers"
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Rapisarda, Filippo, and Massimo Miglioretti. "Professional Culture of Mental Health Services Workers: A Meta-synthesis of Current Literature." Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health 6, no. 1 (January 12, 2019): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40737-018-0132-2.
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Ho, Ken Hok Man, Chen Yang, Alex Kwun Yat Leung, Daniel Bressington, Wai Tong Chien, Qijin Cheng, and Daphne Sze Ki Cheung. "Peer Support and Mental Health of Migrant Domestic Workers: A Scoping Review." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 13 (June 22, 2022): 7617. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137617.
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The effectiveness of peer support in improving mental health and well-being has been well documented for vulnerable populations. However, how peer support is delivered to migrant domestic workers (MDWs) to support their mental health is still unknown. This scoping review aimed to synthesize evidence on existing peer support services for improving mental health among MDWs. We systematically searched eight electronic databases, as well as grey literature. Two reviewers independently performed title/abstract and full-text screening, and data extraction. Twelve articles were finally included. Two types of peer support were identified from the included studies, i.e., mutual aid and para-professional trained peer support. MDWs mainly seek support from peers through mutual aid for emotional comfort. The study’s findings suggest that the para-professional peer support training program was highly feasible and culturally appropriate for MDWs. However, several barriers were identified to affect the successful implementation of peer support, such as concerns about emotion contagion among peers, worries about disclosure of personal information, and lack of support from health professionals. Culture-specific peer support programs should be developed in the future to overcome these barriers to promote more effective mental health practices.
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Eriksen, Kristin Ådnøy, Hellen Dahl, Bengt Karlsson, and Maria Arman. "Strengthening practical wisdom." Nursing Ethics 21, no. 6 (February 4, 2014): 707–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733013518446.
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Background: Practical wisdom, understood as knowing how to be or act in any present situation with clients, is believed to be an essential part of the knowledge needed to be a professional mental health worker. Exploring processes of adapting, extending knowledge and refining tacit knowledge grounded in mental health workers’ experiences with being in practice may bring awareness of how mental health workers reflect, learn and practice professional ‘artistry’. Research question: The aim of the article was to explore mental health workers’ processes of development and learning as they appeared in focus groups intended to develop practical wisdom. The main research question was ‘How might the processes of development and learning contribute to developing practical wisdom in the individual as well as in the practice culture?’ Research design: The design was multi-stage focus groups, and the same participants met four times. A phenomenological hermeneutical method for researching lived experience guided the analysis. Participants and context: Eight experienced mental health workers representing four Norwegian municipalities participated. The research context was community-based mental health services. Ethical considerations: The study was reported to Norwegian Social Data Services, and procedures for informed consent were followed. Findings: Two examples of processes of re-evaluation of experience (Association, Integration, Validation, Appropriation and Outcomes and action) were explored. The health workers had developed knowledge in previous encounters with clients. In sharing practice experiences, this knowledge was expressed and developed, and also tested and validated against the aims of practice. Discussions led to adapted and extended knowledge, and as tacit knowledge was expressed it could be used actively. Discussion: Learning to reflect, being ready to be provoked and learning to endure indecisiveness may be foundational in developing practical wisdom. Openness is demanding, and changing habits of mind is difficult. Conclusion: Reflection on, and confrontation with, set practices are essential to building practice cultures in line with the aims of mental health services.
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Cosgrave, Catherine, Myfanwy Maple, and Rafat Hussain. "Factors affecting job satisfaction of Aboriginal mental health workers working in community mental health in rural and remote New South Wales." Australian Health Review 41, no. 6 (2017): 707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah16128.
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Objective The aim of the present study was to identify factors affecting the job satisfaction and subsequent retention of Aboriginal mental health workers (AMHWs). Methods Five AMHWs working in New South Wales (NSW) for NSW Health in rural and remote community mental health (CMH) services participated in in-depth, semi-structured interviews to understand how employment and rural living factors affected workers’ decisions to stay or leave their CMH positions. Results Using a constructivist grounded theory analysis, three aspects negatively impacting the job satisfaction of AMHWs were identified: (1) difficulties being accepted into the team and organisation; (2) culturally specific work challenges; and (3) professional differences and inequality. Conclusions Policy and procedural changes to the AMHW training program may address the lower remuneration and limited career opportunities identified with regard to the Bachelor Health Sciences (Mental Health) qualification. Delivering training to increase levels of understanding about the AMHW training program, and cultural awareness generally, to CMH staff and NSW Health management may assist in addressing the negative team, organisational and cultural issues identified. What is known about the topic? The Bachelor Health Sciences (Mental Health) qualification and traineeship pathway undertaken by AMHWs differs significantly from that of other health professionals working in NSW Health’s CMH services. The health workforce literature identifies that each health professional group has its own culture and specific values and that forming and maintaining a profession-specific identity is an extremely important aspect of job satisfaction for health workers. What does the paper add? AMHWs working in rural and remote NSW CMH services commonly experience low levels of job satisfaction, especially while undertaking the embedded training program. Of particular concern is the health sciences qualification not translating into NSW Health’s ‘professionalised’ workplace, as well as having negative effects with regard to remuneration and career opportunities within NSW Health. In addition, role challenges involving cultural differences and managing additional professional and personal boundaries negatively affects the job satisfaction of AMHWs. What are the implications for practice? The current structure of the AMHW training program creates workplace conditions that contribute to job dissatisfaction among rural and remote-based AMHWs. Many issues could be rectified by NSW Health making changes to the degree qualification obtained under the training program, as well as raising the level of understanding about the program and Indigenous cultural awareness generally among CMH staff and NSW Health management.
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Phillipowsky, Darryl James. "Perspectives on social workers from within an integrated setting." Journal of Integrated Care 28, no. 2 (February 19, 2020): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-11-2019-0049.
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PurposeThis research explores community professionals' opinions concerning social worker's roles and statutory functions. It explores the perspectives of professionals and their understanding of collaborative and cooperative work; experiences of professional support; opinions on the aspects of anti-oppressive practices in social work; views on social work identity within multidisciplinary team structures; and perceptions regarding the challenges of cultural and contextual drivers of social work practice.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts an interpretivist paradigm and social constructionist epistemology in that there are multiple realities to be understood and different perspectives and perceptions to be explored. This study adopted a data collection approach of thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews.Setting and participantsSocial workers and nurses working within an integrated social care and health NHS trust.MethodsSix respondents volunteered for interviews in 2017. Data were coded as follows using a multistage approach: (1) coding of comments into general categories (e.g. culture, models of practice), (2) coding of subcategories within main categories (e.g. values, knowledge and skills), (3) cross-sectional analysis to identify themes cutting across categories and (4) mapping of categories/subcategories to corresponding comparable research for comparison.FindingsMost interviewees (5) were social workers, with one from the nursing field. Respondents provided comments that fell under four overarching themes: cultural theme, the impact of economic austerity, organisational structures and the political drivers of integration.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the evidence regarding the role of social workers within integrated health and adult social care organisations (as opposed to mental health social work) and also contributes to the evidence around social work in times of austerity.
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VOROBYOVA, IRINA N., and GEORGY T. GODZHIEV. "HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AS A KEY TO SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONAL SELF-REALIZATION OF YOUTH." CASPIAN REGION: Politics, Economics, Culture 66, no. 1 (2021): 163–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.21672/1818-510x-2021-66-1-163-169.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of modern trends in the formation of a healthy lifestyle of students as an important area of successful self-realization of students in the field of future professional activities. The semantic content of a "healthy lifestyle" in the studies of domestic and foreign scientists is revealed from different points of view, but in all studies there is the thesis that the basis of a healthy lifestyle is the integrity of a person's spiritual and physical development, which must be developed and strengthened in unity. Currently, pedagogical workers of educational organizations of all levels and types, social workers, doctors, parents are convinced that the problem of forming a healthy lifestyle has become actualized especially recently, when, after a long forced self-isolation, there is a clear tendency towards a significant deterioration of the mental, somatic, physical and the physiological health of all students, including students. As shown by the analysis of research results even before the pandemic, about 10% of the younger generation are considered perfectly healthy, while the rest of the survey reveals various pathologies in their health. The author also established an organic connection between human health and his lifestyle. In general, a healthy lifestyle includes a complex of health-improving measures, which ensures the strengthening of the physical and moral health of students, an increase in their moral and physical performance, and successful self-realization in the field of professional activity. Of course, the formation of the value attitude of students to a healthy lifestyle, to their physical and mental health is not solved within the framework of one educational organization, but it has the greatest opportunities, since it has at its disposal a sufficient number of hours allocated for physical culture and sports classes. Based on the foregoing, the author convincingly proves in the article his position on a healthy lifestyle as a significant component of successful professional self-realization in a market economy.
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Vasilyeva, T. N., I. V. Fedotova, M. A. Lebedeva, and O. A. Chervyachkova. "Health-saving technologies as prevention of occupational risk of emotional burnout in mental workers." Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology 1, no. 10 (November 13, 2019): 892–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/1026-9428-2019-59-10-892-898.
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In many countries, burnout due to stress at work is recognized as a professionally related disease. Of great importance for its prevention is the introduction of health-saving technologies.The aim of the research was to assess the state of their psycho-emotional sphere, the adequacy of the methodological complex used for psychodiagnostics, and the effectiveness of short-term psychological assistance projects by means of socialadapting and personal-developing technologies on the example of 2 groups of typical representatives with intellectual type of professional activity.In the study, consisting of three stages, two groups of subjects took voluntary part: 13 methodologists of the University and 20 managers of a trading fi rm. The first stage of the study consisted in the initial psychodiagnostics of indicators of the emotional sphere and functional state of the subjects. Different versions of psychodiagnostic tools were developed for each group. The second stage consisted in development and approbation of projects of short-term psychological help to workers. At the third stage the analysis of indicators of emotional sphere at subjects before and after participation in projects is carried out. The results of the study were processed using the usual methods of variational statistics according to the program Statistica 12.0. Initial psychodiagnostics of the studied parameters of the subjects showed signs of professional burnout. In Methodists, this was manifested by a pronounced degree of chronic fatigue index, a decrease in efficiency, a moderate degree of mental and physical fatigue, maladaptation in stress. Managers are also diagnosed with a high risk of maladjustment in stress, low values of indicators of functional state. In the course of participation in psychopath projects, the subjects of both groups showed positive dynamics of indicators of the emotional sphere.The obtained data allow to recommend these projects of health saving programs for practical use. The tested complex of psychodiagnostic tests allows to reveal signs of professional burnout and to estimate efficiency of programs of psychopathology. For the prevention of burnout syndrome and the formation of stress resistance, it is advisable to create a culture of health conservation at each workplace.
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PARFANOVICH, IVANNA. "FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT OF SOCIAL WORKERS." Scientific Issues of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Series: pedagogy, no. 2 (April 6, 2021): 197–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.25128/2415-3605.20.2.26.
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The article is devoted to the study of burnout, which is interpreted as the inability to perform professional duties at the proper level due to prolonged physical and/or mental overload. The main content of the study is to determine the possibilities of prevention of professional burnout of a social worker in order to ensure his physical and mental health.Scientific opinions and positions on the relevance, purpose, multifaceted nature, content of prevention, objective and subjective factors of prevention, differences in organizational and psychological and pedagogical influences of prevention, the specifics of social prevention and prevention. As well as the impact on the professional activities of social norms and deviations from norms, values, responsibilities. The causes of burnout can be differentiated by the nature of the determination. Among the main groups of determinants – social, medical, biological, psychological. The conducted survey among social specialists on the state of professional burnout revealed certain tendencies and regularities among them. This was evidenced by statistics relating to the factors influencing the professional burnout of the specialist, as well as their dynamics. The basis of professional activity should be to provide conditions for this.
However, collective life, in addition to having advantages, is also endowed with negative features. Indicators of collective distress that have a direct impact on the professional burnout of an individual member of the team are identified. These include problems and / or lack of corporate culture; dissatisfaction with the psychological atmosphere prevailing in the team; presence of conflict situations, quarrels, intrigue; absence or problems of interpersonal communication in the team, division into groups; low level of mutual assistance and support, unwillingness to maintain friendly relations; no punishment for guilt, reaction to negative behavior of colleagues, control over subjective factors; lack of prospects for team development; lack of conditions for personal development and formation; lack of measures to prevent occupational burnout. For comparison, the experimental study involved people who did not suffer from burnout and people who survived the state of burnout.
Thus, people who have experienced a state of burnout have much deeper psycho-emotional disorders. Their professional experience is characterized by significant negative experiences and beliefs. Positive corporate social ties have been disrupted in their lives, which can lead to disruption in other areas: family, personal, spiritual and emotional. That is, it causes a number of other shifts. Certain trends are evidenced by statistics on the assessment of the existing risks of burnout, which concern specialists in various fields: almost all recognized the fact of burnout to varying degrees; the vast majority of respondents assess the ability to perform professional duties generally well, but the lack of an absolute answer also indicates the risks involved; mostly the presence of risks of burnout is assessed indirectly. On the basis of statistical indicators of occupational burnout, their dynamics can be distinguished victim groups. Given the classification of propensity to burnout, prevention technologies can be used. In each of the three cases, the approach will be different. It is established that a special place is occupied by the subjective factor of professional activity.
Professional burnout is caused by various factors: social and organizational conditions of functioning of collective, legislative and normative-organizational maintenance of process of work; individual and personal qualities of personality, stress resistance, motivation of activity; compliance of qualities and personality traits with the requirements of the chosen profession, professional competence; ability to work in a team, ability to take into account the opinions and positions of others, sociability; availability of life, professional experience; psychological compatibility of individual team members; ability to control the situation in the team by management; corporate culture, the presence of common interests and activities, interest in the development and prosperity of the team. Theoretical analysis and experimental study of problems related to burnout indicate the presence of risks in the professional activities of professionals from different social structures. That is, it depends not so much on objective factors as on the subjective attitude of the individual to himself and his mental and physical health. And the problem looks not so much psychological as psychological and pedagogical.
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Schout, Gert, Marjolein van Dijk, Ellen Meijer, Elleke Landeweer, and Gideon de Jong. "The use of family group conferences in mental health: Barriers for implementation." Journal of Social Work 17, no. 1 (July 8, 2016): 52–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017316637227.
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Summary The number of compulsory admissions in Dutch psychiatry has increased in the past 25 years. The reduction of coercion with Family Group Conferences in youth care has been successful. How, when and under what conditions can Family Group Conferences reduce coercion in adult psychiatry, is subject of an extensive inquiry. This paper, however, focusses on the reverse question, namely, in what circumstances can Family Group Conferences not be deployed? An answer to this question provides insights regarding situations in which Family Group Conferences may (not) be useful. Barriers in 17 cases were examined using multiple case studies. Findings The following barriers emerged: (1) the acute danger in coercion situations, the limited time available, the fear of liability and the culture of control and risk aversion in mental health care; (2) the severity of the mental state of clients leading to difficulties in decision-making and communication; (3) considering an Family Group Conference and involving familial networks as an added value in crisis situation is not part of the thinking and acting of professionals in mental health care; (4) clients and their network (who) are not open to an Family Group Conference. Applications Awareness of the barriers for Family Group Conferences can help to keep an open mind for its capacity to strengthen the partnership between clients, familial networks and professionals. The application of Family Group Conferences can help to effectuate professional and ethical values of social workers in their quest for the least coercive care.
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Karamushka, Liudmyla. "MENTAL HEALTH: ESSENCE, MAIN DETERMINANTS, STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS." PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL 7, no. 5 (May 31, 2021): 26–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31108/1.2021.7.5.3.
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The purpose of the study. Based on the study of foreign experience to analyze the essence of mental health, its main determinants, strategies and programs and to determine the features of the use of foreign approaches in Ukraine. The results of the study. The article analyzes the essence of mental health based on the analysis of foreign and domestic sources (documents of state and non-governmental organizations, scientific research), defines its role in the life of the individual, society and society. It is noted that according to the documents of the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health is an integral part of health, is a state of well-being in which a person realizes his abilities, can cope with ordinary life stresses, can work productively and effectively to help his community. The role of the biopsychosocial model for determining the determinants of mental health is revealed. It is emphasized that according to the biopsychosocial model, a person is a holistic organism in which biological, psychological and social factors are constantly interrelated, so the idea of human health, causes of diseases and its care depends on the characteristics and condition of each of these factors. Government and non-governmental mental health strategies, general and specialized programs for the protection and promotion of mental health are analyzed in detail. It is emphasized that Ukraine needs to actively participate in the study, development and implementation of international standards on mental health in Ukraine, improving the culture of the population on this issue, attracting specialists in various fields (physicians, psychologists, social workers) to diagnose mental health problems and various professional groups , implementation of appropriate psychological support programs.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Professional Culture, Mental Health Workers"
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RAPISARDA, FILIPPO. "Depicting professional cultures of mental health workers: development and validation of the Bicocca Mental Health Professional Culture Inventory." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/142550.
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The process of care in Mental Health services (MHS) could be influenced by a number of different staff related factors, such as staff morale and burnout levels, staff technical and interpersonal skills, attitudes and values. Social processes are particularly relevant in the Mental Health sector, since workers deal with clinical conditions and care procedures that rely on professional social constructions. Mental health services staff in middle and high income countries is composed mainly by specialized workers such as psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, psychologists and support workers organized in multi-professional teams whose composition is determined by local level regulations.
Beside the professional knowledge, each profession is also constituted by the social dynamics that are proper of a specific social group.
The creation of a professional role, such as mental health nurse or clinical psychologist, leads to the development of a system of values, schema and knowledge, shared among the members of that professional group and that orient professional behavior and coping. Those shared cognitive and behavioral schemata constitute the “professional culture” (PC) that could be considered as a subsystem of the broader organizational culture and it also linked with further constructs such as professional identity, professional role, attitudes and beliefs toward clients, professional values, cultural artifacts and affective issues related to team working, inter-professional collaboration and clients.
Currently, there's lack of studies that try to develop a comprehensive model professional culture of mental health professionals (PCMHP). This dissertation makes an attempt to define the construct of professional culture of mental health professionals using a bottom up approach to derive theoretical construct from empirical data.
The first chapter introduces the issue of professionalization in mental health services. The main idea is that professionalization of mental health staff is the result of cultural changes in the history of the western countries that created a complexification of task and organization of mental health services.
In the second chapter is presented a synthesis of the current literature performed using the meta-ethnographic approach to link together relevant qualitative studies on mental health staff work experiences. The results show that professionals working in mental health field share some common elements of PC such as the importance of the interpersonal relationship with users, the relevance of values in the professional practice and the need of keep a mindful and reflective attitude toward the work.
The third chapter describes the development of a new questionnaire, the Bicocca Mental Health Professional Culture Inventory (BMHPCI) in collaboration with the research center of the Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal. A pilot phase was conducted to determine whether linguistic or cultural differences could affect items’ comprehension to prevent reductions of internal validity.
BMHPCI validation phase is presented in chapter 4. Questionnaire validity and reliability was tested through a survey of a representative sample of mental health services workersThe instrument developed shows good psychometric properties and statistically significant correlations with team climate and burnout scores. Statistically significant differences in BMHPCI subscales were found between professional roles and mental health settings.
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El-Amin, Cheryl W. "Personal and professional spirituality: Muslim social workers' perspectives." ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/676.
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Research in the area of religion and spirituality in social work practice is lacking minority practitioner representation. This phenomenological study explored the questions of how American Muslim social workers define and experience the religious/spiritual, and perceive the propriety of integrating either, in practice. Ibn Khaldun and Durkheim, early social theorists, suggested that group feeling and affiliation impact personal and professional perception and decision making. American societal views of Muslims are often negative and uninformed. A group of 15 Muslim practitioners with bachelor's or more advanced degrees in social work were recruited through a survey administered via an Internet survey site. In depth telephone interviews were conducted that clarified personal and professional descriptions and experiences of the religious/spiritual. Transcript statements were critically reviewed for range of meaning (horizonalization) and reduced to their thematic essences following the phenomenological thematic analysis paradigm. Trustworthiness of the study was verified through ongoing bracketing of the researcher's assumptions and maintenance of a data collection journal. Findings indicated that participants favored a client-centered approach based on the social work standard of self determination. Most participants differentiated and acknowledged the value of spirituality more than religion in practice. Practitioners, cognizant of possible negative interpretations of Muslims and Islam, rely on the client to initiate religious themes in therapy. This finding suggests the need for future study of client views. Implications for social change are evidenced in the clients' assurance that Muslim practitioners' professional integration of the religious/spiritual is client driven and bound by competent social work ethical practice.
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Cearfoss, Christine. "Los Angeles Community-Based Associate Social Workers' Understanding of Culture and Therapy." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6538.
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Social workers have no clear professional guidelines about the application of culturally competent mental health service delivery. Without culturally competent mental health service delivery, clients from diverse cultures do not access needed mental health services and they experience less effective therapy treatment outcomes and overall disparity of service delivery throughout the therapeutic process. The purpose of this descriptive case study was to better understand how community-based social workers are delivering culturally competent services to clients. The theoretical framework for the study was multiculturalism and the primary research questions addressed how associate clinical social workers who provide in-home mental health services in Los Angeles deliver culturally competent services to their clients. Through 8 interviews with associate clinical social workers, this descriptive case study revealed that without clear direction on what culturally competent services are, or how to deliver them, social workers are using a combination of personal experience and personal culture, educational and practice knowledge, and in some cases no attention to culture, to meet the mental health needs of their clients. This study emphasized the need for an industry wide understanding of the term cultural competency, so it could serve as the frame of reference by which practice professional skill level could be assessed, practice protocols measured, and could lead to social change through greater access to counseling services for clients.
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Woodbridge-Dodd, Kim. "A discursive study of how mental health social workers constructed their professional selves within the context of National Health Service mental health services." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2017. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/9721/.
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Since the 1990s there have been continued drives in England to integrate National Health Services and Local Authorities’ social care within a single mental health service, with the aim of bringing about improvements in health and social care (Local Government Association et al., 2016). This is underpinned by the belief that through bringing the different professional health (such as psychiatrists and mental health nurses) and social care disciplines together, people in need will have a single point of access to a range of skills and knowledge, that no one system could deliver alone (Cooper, 2017). However, the very unique professional approaches that have been stated as the reason to place social workers in NHS Mental Health Services have been the ones that mental health social workers have struggled to hold onto in this setting (Allen et al., 2016). This is a thesis of how mental health social workers constructed a professional self within the context of the NHS mental health services. I used a Foucauldian approach and the notion that professional identity is a socially constructed sense of self, produced from discourses, subject positions and a process of subjectification. Twelve social workers were interviewed; seven mental health social workers and five social workers who held positions as managers or educationalists. I asked social workers questions about their professional identity, their answers provided a rich source of ‘talk’ that I could analyse using Parker’s steps to discourse analysis. The findings discuss the nature of social work as a profession, generic and specialist social work, and suggests a typology of subject positions drawn from the mental health social workers’ discourses. These findings provide a useful resource to support critical social work practice, both as an example of how Foucauldian theory and concepts can be a rich toolbox for understanding practice in complex settings, and through the use of the typology of subject positions as a source to prompt self-reflection for mental health social workers’ practice.
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Allen, Kathleen Rishel. "Demographic and professional characteristics of child-oriented psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers with regard to their ethical beliefs." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284362.
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This study was designed to extend the research on ethical beliefs to child-oriented mental health practitioners. The purpose of the study was to identify the beliefs and practices of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers regarding confidentiality, competence, and multiple relationships, and to determine whether ethical beliefs vary by profession, gender, or other demographic and professional characteristics. A two-part questionnaire was mailed to 3000 child-oriented psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers regarding their ethical beliefs in the areas of competence, confidentiality, and multiple relationships. A total of 1029 responses were obtained. Part One of the questionnaire addressed demographic and professional information, and Part Two contained 43 behavior description stems. Respondents were asked to indicate the degree to which they felt each behavior was ethical, using a Likert-like scale. Significant (p <.001) differences were obtained between the three professional groups in their beliefs regarding multiple relationships, competence, and the total ethical belief rating. Psychiatrists were the least conservative/most accepting in their ethical belief ratings, social workers were the most conservative/least accepting and psychologists tended to fall in the middle on each measure. In addition, female practitioners endorsed a significantly (p < .001) more conservative viewpoint than did male practitioners in multiple relationships, competence, and total ethical behavior ratings. Although respondents were most in agreement in their respective beliefs about confidentiality, a significant (p < .05) difference was found for gender, with females being more conservative/less accepting than males. In the area of multiple relationships, psychiatrists indicated a greater willingness to engage in relationships such as treating the child of a close friend, and entering into business or social relationships with current or former clients, than either social workers or psychologists. Additionally, respondents as a group were more likely to rate as acceptable breaking confidentiality when working with children than when working with adolescents (p <.001). This study points to the differences, as well as areas of general agreement, in the ethical beliefs of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.
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Harris, Tavon Antonio. "BELIEFS ABOUT SOCIAL WORKERS AMONG BLACK MALES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/365.
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It’s been more than a decade since the National Institute of Mental Health (NAMI) initiated its public campaign, ‘Real Men Real Depression.’ Despite increased awareness, research and relevant studies indicate that African American / Black men continue to underutilize mental health treatment while still having the highest all-cause mortality rates of any racial/ ethnic group in the United States. When reading this statement, one must question what impact that the beliefs about ‘social workers’ through the lens of Black males in the United States, may play. This very simply, yet flammable, question not only seems pertinent but also seems to warrant further exploration due to the research that shows that service access and help-seeking by African-American males across the lifespan is significantly lower than that of their non-Black counterparts. That same research seems to make assumptions about why this is, however it is only responsible and ethical, given the National Association of Social workers’ (NASW) Code of Ethics calling for cultural competence in practice, that we challenge and test the rationales being offered.
This study was exploratory in nature, employed a snowball sampling methodology, and utilized an electronic survey offered through social media and promoted by word of mouth, targeting Black males over the age of 18, to assess their overall knowledge about being a social worker, and their beliefs and perceptions about social workers and how they believe social workers perceive them. The goal of this study was to begin to explore the reasons for overwhelming statistics that speak to the fact that Black males do not access mental health services, especially those provided by social workers. A total of 59 were started, and 43 completed, by the target respondents, which included a 5-item scale, to assess basic knowledge about social workers, a 10-item scale to assess the general beliefs about social workers, and 13-item scale to assess the beliefs about the perceptions of social workers about Black males. Univariate and bivariate analyses were performed using SPSS, and the results revealed that although there was a moderate level of general knowledge about social workers, the general belief of the respondents were primarily negative, with their beliefs about how social workers see Black males was just slightly more positive. These results seemed to be across the board and were not shown to be correlated with level of education, income, or whether they has received direct services provided by social workers or had no affiliation with such services. What did seem to have some relevance was an overall negative belief about social workers, and a level of suspicion and distrust for how their information would be used, as evidenced by 16 respondents who started the survey but would not completed it.
In keeping with the NASW Code of Ethics, recommendation are provided to helps clinicians and those social workers providing direct service, be informed of the suspicions and apprehensions among this population, while encouraging the importance of continuous learning and increasing of cultural competence, awareness and humility. Lastly, recommendations for future research are also provided for the same purposes.
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Tribulskytė, Erika. "Psichikos sveikatos priežiūros paslaugas teikiančių socialinių darbuotojų įsitraukimas į asmeninės profesinės savižinos gilinimą." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20140623_173025-79972.
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Šiame darbe analizuojama profesinės savižinos gilinimo reikšmė psichikos sveikatos priežiūros srities socialinių darbuotojų kasdieninėje veikloje ir jų profesiniam tobulėjimui. Pagrindiniai tyrimo tikslai – išsiaiškinti, kokią reikšmę psichikos sveikatos priežiūros paslaugas teikiantys socialiniai darbuotojai skiria asmeninei profesinei savižinai, kiek jie yra įsitraukę į jos gilinimą. Tyrimo metodai: I. Mokslinės literatūros, mokslinių tyrimų analizė, siekiant išsiaiškinti, kas veikia žmogaus profesinę orientaciją ir motyvaciją, kas gali jam padėti „pažinti save“ ir kodėl tai svarbu siekiant asmeninio profesinio augimo. II. Kiekybinis tyrimo metodas pasirinktas, siekiant empyriškai patvirtinti ar atmesti prieš tyrimą išsikeltas hipotezes. Vykdyta anketinė apklausa. III. Kokybiniu tyrimo metodu buvo siekiama papildyti anketinės apklausos metu gautą informaciją. Naudojant pusiau struktūruoto interviu metodą, gautas išsamesnis profesinės savižinos gilinimo reikšmės socialiniame darbe supratimas. Respondentai galėjo išsakyti nuomonę apie tai, kas jiems trukdo naudoti profesinės savižinos gilinimo metodus, kokios priežastys lemia susidomėjimą jais, kokią socialinio darbo ateities viziją jie turi ir kt. Tyrimo dalyviai: Tyrime dalyvavo 45 respondentai. 4 iš jų papildomai apklausti interviu metu. Visi tyrimo dalyviai buvo atrinkti iš Vilniaus mieste ir rajone veikiančių psichikos sveikatos centrų, gydymo įstaigų, valstybinių, ar savivaldybės, ir nevyriausybinių organizacijų dienos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]This study discusses importance of professional self-awareness in mental health social workers every day work and to their professional grow. Main subjects of research – to find out, mental health social workers’ attitude towards expanding of their professional self-awareness and their involvement in it. Methods: I. The study of nonfiction, other researches, to find out theoretical basis and reasons, why people choose social work profession, what helps „knowing themselves“ and why it is important for social workers professional development and etc. II. Quantitative data-gathering method used on purpose to sustain or discard theoretical hypothesis empirically. Survey was pursued with the help of standardized questionnaire. III. Qualitative analysis method used on purpose to bring information up-to-date quantitative material, of getting the most possible and complementary, more detailed information about the importance of professional self-awareness in social work field and other important issues. Survey was pursued with the help of half-standardized interview method. Participants: During research investigated 45 mental health social workers. In addition, 4 of them were asked during the interview. All participants work in Vilnius and this region mental health care, government and NGO day care and psychosocial-rehabilitation centers. Main findings: 1.Mental health social workers’ professional orientation and motivation influence internal and external forces. 2. Most of mental... [to full text]
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Davidson, Colette Evelyn. "The perception of the professional self of social workers in private practice." Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1652.
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Social workers in private practiceSocial work in South Africa appears to have low status and a negative ”welfare” image. The general public seems to regard social workers and the profession with disdain and for the most part is ignorant of what social workers do apart from handing out grants and removing children from their families. This exploratory research focuses on social workers in private practice - how they view their professional selves, the factors that contribute to the development of their professional selves and the factors that hinder or facilitate this development. The impact of public opinion on social workers in private practice is explored and possible solutions to problems experienced by these private practitioners are sought. Modern and postmodern paradigms are summarised as a background to the Rogerian theory, constructivist philosophy and social constructionist theory that underlie this research. The researcher explores the perceptions of each respondent who shares his/her particular reality with the researcher through the meanings he/she attributes to his/her experiences.
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CHOU, HUI-SHIH, and 周慧詩. "The Study of Health Department Workers of Kaohsiung City’s Perspective with the relationship between Professional Commitment,Organazational Culture and Organizational Citizenship Behavior." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36e4a8.
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The purpose of the study is to discuss health department workers of Kaohsiung City’s perspective with the relationship between professional commitment, organazational culture and organizational citizenship behavior. The research method is to survey full-time staff who work for department of health and public health center under Kaohsiung City Gorvenment by handing out questionnaires or delivery. The total amount of questionnaires is 260, so the estimated quantity is also 260. In other words, effective sample size is 260 as well. After analyzing and verifying the research hypothesis with SPSS software, the result is listed below. 1.Professional commitments made by health department workers of Kaohsiung City are affective commitment-bias. 2.Organizational culture of health department workers of Kaohsiung City is innovative type-bias. 3.Professional commitment caused significant positive correlation and influences to organizational citizenship behavior, but its continuity has no obvious effect to organizational public welfare behavior. 4.Overall, although professional commitment caused significant positive correlation and influences to organizational citizenship behavior. However, type of bureaucracy has no obvious effect to organizational public welfare behavior. Keywords:Professional Commitment、Organizational Culture、Organizational Citizenship Behavior
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Lin, En yu, and 林恩如. "A Study on the relationships among Job Stress, Physical and Mental Health, and Professional Burnout of Public Health Workers: A Case study on the Department of Health and the Community Health Centers of Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81148797224483225918.
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This study aims to investigate the relationships among job stress, physical and mental health, and professional burnout, and the research subjects were the public health workers of Kaohsiung City. Our major tools of investigation were 4 questionnaires designed by the current researcher, including the “Variance of Background,” “Scale of Job Stress,” “Scale of Physical and Mental Health” and “Scale of Professional Burnout.” 425 questionnaires were distributed, and 366 valid questionnaires returned, which made the rate of valid questionnaires 86.11%. Based on the valid questionnaires, we analyzed the data by descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product moment correlation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Our findings are as below: a. The perception of job stress was at an intermediate level, and the category “working time” got the highest rate. b. The physical and mental health condition was at a lower-intermediate level, and the category “mental health” got the highest rate. c. The perception of professional burnout was at an intermediate level, and the category “decrease of efficiency” got the highest rate. d. The public health workers of Kaohsiung who perceived the highest level of job stress were 30 to 49 year-old junior college graduates with 15 to 19 years of working experience who served as full-time workers in the Disease Control Department or a public health center. e. The public health workers of Kaohsiung with the poorest physical and mental health condition were workers among 30 to 39 years old in the Disease Control Department or a public health center who did not have a religious belief. f. Among our subjects, those who suffered from the highest level of professional burnout were 30 to 49 year-old full-time workers who received junior college or higher education and worked as non-managers in the Disease Control Department or a public health center. g. There was a significant positive correlation among job stress, physical and mental health, and professional burnout. h. Job stress and physical-mental health contributed to the prediction of professional burnout, and “job load” was the most predictive category. Based on our findings, we put forward concrete suggestions to the reconstruction of public health organizations after the merger of Kaohsiung City and former Kaohsiung County. Also, the results are likely to be useful reference for those who wish to follow up this issue.
Books on the topic "Professional Culture, Mental Health Workers"
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Elements of culture and mental health: Critical questions for clinicians. London: RCPsych Pub., 2013.
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Renee, Adomat, ed. Overseas clinical elective: A survival guide for health care workers. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1997.
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Values and ethics in social work practice. 2nd ed. Exeter: Learning Matters, 2010.
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Culture, values and ethics in social work: Embracing diversity. New York: Routledge, 2012.
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Colorado. Department of Regulatory Agencies. Office of Policy and Research. Division of Registrations, Mental Health Section: Board of Psychologist Examiners, Board of Social Work Examiners, Board of Marriage & Family Therapist Examiners, Board of Licensed Professional Counselor Examiners, Sate Grievance Board, Addiction Counselors Program. Denver, Colo: Colorado Dept. of Regulatory Agencies, Office of Policy and Research, 2003.
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Roger, Herdman, and Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Division of Health Care Services., eds. Non-heart-beating organ transplantation: Medical and ethical issues in procurement. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press, 1997.
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Candilis, Philip J., and Navneet Sidhu. Ethics at the Intersection of Mental Health and the Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199387106.003.0015.
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Clinicians regularly face ethical dilemmas that challenge their personal and professional boundaries, such as accepting gifts, interacting with patients or evaluees in social settings, and managing differing expectations of patients and evaluees. This chapter describes how various ethical theories and models, such as principlism, virtue theory, deontology, consequentialism, communitarian ethics, narrative ethics, and boundary models, can be applied to assist physicians, therapists, social workers, and other clinicians whose practice brings them to the interface of mental health and the law. It addresses some aspects of clinical practice in which the expectations of the evaluee or clinician may not coincide with the expectations of the law. It describes a modern professionalism that integrates the various ethical approaches and offers the greatest likelihood of success in negotiating the complex issues arising at the interface of mental health practice and the law while incorporating sensitivity to culture, language, gender, and prior experiences.
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Hanley, Jane. Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health: A Guide for Health Professionals and Support Workers. Routledge, 2015.
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Hanley, Jane. Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health: A Guide for Health Professionals and Support Workers. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Hanley, Jane. Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health: A Guide for Health Professionals and Support Workers. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Mutamba, Byamah B. "Public Mental Health in Low-Resourced Systems in Uganda: Lay Community Health Workers, Context and Culture." In Global Mental Health Ethics, 123–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66296-7_8.
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Bennett, Michael. "Case Studies in the Culture of Professional Football Players and Mental Welfare and Wellbeing." In International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice, 325–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47852-0_38.
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AbstractThis chapter draws on the author’s personal experience together with the findings from his qualitative research, to explore the cultural values driving problems of mental health and well-being among professional footballers. The study makes explicit the way in which players are expected to hide their experiences of being objectified—of being subject to gendered, racialised and other forms of dehumanisation—and denied a legitimate lived experience, an authentic heard voice. The chapter illustrates the importance in values-based practice of knowledge of values gained as in this instance by way of qualitative methods from the social sciences being used to fill out knowledge derived from individual personal experience.
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Amering, M. "Trialogue: An Exercise in Communication Between Users, Carers, and Professional Mental Health Workers Beyond Role Stereotypes." In The Stigma of Mental Illness - End of the Story?, 581–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27839-1_33.
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Browne, Fiona, Steven Bettles, Stacey Clift, and Tim Walker. "Connecting Patients, Practitioners and Regulators in Supporting Positive Experiences and Processes of Shared Decision-Making: A Case Study in Co-production." In International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice, 391–401. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47852-0_45.
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AbstractThis chapter describes a project in osteopathy exploring how regulators can support shared decision-making by positively promoting good practice rather than by way of traditionally adopted methods based on fitness to practice and disciplinary action. The project is built in part on a background development programme in values-based osteopathy. The regulator (the General Osteopathic Council), osteopaths and patients worked together co-productively in a series of workshops to develop support resources for shared decision-making based on what is important to the individual patient in question. Central to the project was an emerging understanding of the cultural values of osteopathy as a profession and how these impact on their practice. A summary of and links to the resources produced by the project are included. The chapter starts with a case narrative (the story of ‘Jennifer’) adapted from one used in the background development programme.
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Wolf-Gould, Carolyn. "From Margins to Mainstream: Creating a Rural-Based Center of Excellence in Transgender Health for Upstate, New York." In Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US - Experiences in Developing the Team and Impacting the Community. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98453.
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Transgender people face many barriers to healthcare, especially in rural America. The work to decrease barriers to care and address health care disparities for this population meets criteria for a wicked problem, each of which is unique and has no clear solution. The barriers are related to the individual and society and are both formal and informal. The definition for a Center of Excellence in healthcare is loose, but these organizations aspire to serve as specialized programs that offer comprehensive, interdisciplinary expertise and resources within a medical field to improve patient outcomes. With funding and leadership training from the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program, a group of medical and mental health clinicians worked for three years with the goal of creating a Rural-Based Center of Excellence in Transgender Health embedded within a family practice to approach the wicked problem of transgender healthcare in their region. The goals of the center were six pronged: the provision of competent and affirming medical, surgical and mental health services, training for healthcare professional students, medical-legal advocacy and patient-centered research. The team created a strategic plan, with five strategic directions, including 1) developing infrastructure and organizational capacity, 2) expanding awareness, knowledge and skills, 3) fulfilling staffing needs, 4) ensuring gender-affirming care, and 5) advancing evidence-based care. I describe our work to bring transgender health from the margins to the mainstream for our region through implementation of this strategic plan.
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McCann, Leo. "Coping with Unbearable Strain." In The Paramedic at Work, 131–67. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816362.003.0005.
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Abstract This chapter delves into the most unpleasant and troubling elements of paramedic work, from the stark realities of operational overload, the uneasy realities of ‘coping mechanisms’ and to the prevalence of ill health, mental trauma, and even suicide among the paramedic community. It explores the enormous pressures placed on those working in the service, where paramedics risk having their wellbeing—in the words of one interviewee—‘slowly scratched away’. It documents how ambulance workers and employers try to handle the impact of distressing calls through formal and informal means. Alongside the gallows humour that famously operates in such ‘extreme’ settings, serious emergencies also provide opportunities for learning and debriefing, and they occupy a high position in the informal status hierarchy of paramedic work. However unpleasant they are, I show that very serious and challenging calls are part of the essence of emergency work, and that competent and ‘professional’ paramedics have to find appropriate ways to deal with them. The chapter moves on to explore the limits of coping mechanisms, drawing on academic concepts such as burnout, PTSD, and moral injury, but also the folk concepts emergent from paramedic street culture used to describe emotional labour, such as ‘five-year job’, ‘the bucket’, and the ‘grief mop’. Finally, it also describes endemic problems associated with ambulance service managerial and employment cultures. These represent yet another form of stress for paramedics, who often feel undervalued and neglected and sometimes live in fear of accusations of wrongdoing, complaints, and inspections.
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Leemeijer, Aukje, and Mirko Noordegraaf. "Health professionals and peer support workers in mental health settings." In Support Workers and the Health Professions, 143–60. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447352105.003.0008.
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In many Western countries mental health care institutions employ ‘peer support workers’ in professional teams. They are clients or former clients in mental health care who are trained and educated to transform their personal experience as a client into ‘experiential knowledge’ helping other clients. This is supposed to improve ‘client centeredness’ in mental health care. However, the rise and roles of peer support workers are not undisputed; mental health professionals – psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and therapists – have ambivalent responses. Peer support workers may challenge the status and dominance of traditional expert knowledge when they bring experiential knowledge into decision making processes. This challenge is strengthened by the development of peer support workers as a new group who may ultimately themselves professionalise. This chapter, focused on The Netherlands, explores from a neo-Weberian standpoint the relationship between mental health professionals and peer support workers. This is related to professional identities and positions, and also institutional surroundings, including how peer support workers and service organisations deal with risks and accountability. On the basis of empirical observational research, organisational conditions are shown to count more than occupational conditions. This underscores that the interweaving of new forms of knowledge in service processes must be organised.
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Painter, Kirstin, and Maria Scannapieco. "Framework for Understanding and Treating Mental Health Problems." In Understanding the Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents, 14–25. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190927844.003.0002.
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This chapter focuses on five important components when working with children with mental health problems and their families. The ecological systems model recognizes the dynamic two-way relationship between the systems that affect the youth’s environment and the youth’s responses to those effects and the factors that may facilitate or impede the child’s environmental adaptation. Systems of care is a service delivery method where youth and their families are seen as capable and equal to the professionals in the treatment decision-making process. Evidence-based practices and programs are interventions and programs that incorporate strongly supported evidence-based practices while also encouraging the combination of individual skills and uniqueness. Cultural humility is a multiperspective approach to working with diverse populations, one based on the understanding of the importance of diverse cultures, beliefs, values, and morals. Finally, engagement and strengths-based practices encourage an exhaustive examination of many factors that may prevent effective engagement between the social worker and his or her clients.
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Malik, Mansoor, Samar Padder, Suneeta Kumari, and Haroon Burhanullah. "Mental Health Burden and Burnout in Correctional Workers." In Correctional Facilities and Correctional Treatment - International Perspectives [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108320.
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Working in correctional facilities is inherently stressful, and correctional workers have a high rate of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and professional burnout. Correctional workers faced an unprecedented set of challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbating an already dire situation. There has been a relative shortage of studies evaluating effective interventions for the psychological consequences of working in correctional facilities. Well-being and mental health Interventions for correctional workers should be embedded in a general framework of support, reducing occupational risk factors, improving mental well-being by developing a positive work environment, improving mental health literacy, and identifying and treating mental health issues. The backbone of the correctional system is its workforce and the mental health and well-being of correctional workers are of paramount importance in an effective correctional system.
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Lachman, Peter, John Brennan, John Fitzsimons, Anita Jayadev, and Jane Runnacles. "Safety issues in mental health." In Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Patient Safety, edited by Peter Lachman, John Brennan, John Fitzsimons, Anita Jayadev, and Jane Runnacles, 361–72. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780192846877.003.0032.
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People with mental health conditions are at a specific risk of harm when in healthcare. Mental health and well-being are often not given the same priority as physical health. The type of risk to the individual is dependent on the context, which can be a mental health facility or a general hospital. The main areas of concern are self-harm, including suicide, delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and medication harm. These risks are amplified in health facilities that do not have the skills to meet the needs of individuals with mental health problems in appropriate environments. In non-mental health facilities, proactive action can prevent harm by assessing the environment, the organizational culture, and attitudes to mental health, as well as the skills of the staff. Care should be personalized and person-centred, should focus on recovery and trauma prevention, and should be culturally responsive.
Conference papers on the topic "Professional Culture, Mental Health Workers"
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Merkulova, A. G., S. A. Kalinina, and E. V. Dmitrieva. "MENTAL WORKERS MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROFESSIONAL LONGEVITY PROLONGATION." In The 4th «OCCUPATION and HEALTH» International Youth Forum (OHIYF-2022). FSBSI «IRIOH», 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/978-5-6042929-6-9-2022-1-156-160.
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Introduction: Timely assessment and prevention of negative mental states that may develop during professional activity period are necessary to maintain efficiency, reliability of activity and longevity of work not only for particular employee, but for organization as a whole functioning also. Research goal: Mental workers mental health state assessment, taking into account gender and age characteristics and labor intensity class. Research methods: The study involved 359 employees of 13 professional groups 30-59 years aged. Labor intensity according to Guidelines R 2.2.2006-05 and psychological testing using questionnaires were evaluated to assess the degree of chronic fatigue, acute mental fatigue, work stress, professional burnout and depression were carried out. Mental states level was assessed depending on gender, age and class of work intensity; the predictors of professional burnout were determined. Results: Comparison of the severity of psychological states depending on the class of labor intensity, gender and age revealed the presence of statistically significant differences between studied groups (p<0.05). With an increase of working conditions class, all indicators increase average score were observed. More pronounced negative states were noted in the group of men. Worsening of results in the senior age groups was shown. As predictors of professional burnout, the level of depression, mental fatigue, work experience in the specialty were noted (adjusted R2 = 0.66). Conclusions: Programs to prevent of negative mental states development for mental workers, their gender, age group and work intensity class should be taken into account.
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Alzain, Hassan, Rym AlGhazal, Ali Abu Qurain, and Mona Karkadan. "Fostering and Sustaining Employees’ Happiness in the Oil, Gas, and Energy Industry: the Role of Organizational Chief Happiness Officer in Implementing Happiness Initiatives and Programs." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. IPTC, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/iptc-22718-ms.
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Abstract The well-being of employees is catching momentum among various demanding industries across the world, underlying the importance of introducing and maintaining effective happiness initiatives to foster successful employees ’engagement with their line management to work better together and build loyalty to the workplace. This paper, therefore, aims to detail the strategic benefits of happiness initiatives along with the expected business benefits on long-term basis. A happy employee is defined as a productive and loyal employee. When an employee is happy, they tend to display greater engagement with their job. Similarly, studies have shown that when an individual feels "heard" and that their voice matters, their levels of morale are higher. Moreover, when equipped with the right tools to cope with a stressful environment, a worker's level of productivity and the quality of their work improves. The data collected at the end of each initiative is an important reference and resource for companies with a high number of employees across various specialties. This paper will provide the background of the importance of happiness initiatives, as well as making the first steps towards cultivating a culture of happiness in the more traditional industries, especially including the oil, gas and energy industry. The concept of a happiness initiative, especially in relation to international best practices, is currently not widely applied in traditional industries with evidence on the lack of a true sense of happy and productive engagement across different employees ’levels and contractors. Elevating happiness across organizations is, therefore, essential, as indicated by the fact that good mental health and well-being are core needs for any business to succeed in the post-COVID-19 era. Happiness at work is a relative, attainable concept that can be fostered and sustained in a more professional context, where organizations can play a vital and critical role in the research, establishment, and advancement of workplace happiness policies and frameworks on strategic basis that will positively result in tangible and non-tangible business benefits. This paper will outline mechanisms, best practices and the role of "Chief Happiness Officers" in leading tailor-made happiness initiatives to address organizational-specific needs and emerging issues.
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Darutina, Alla. "UNICUM Project: How libraries can preserve intellectual activity?" In Sixth World Professional Forum "The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations". Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/978-5-85638-236-4-2021-57-59.
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Dementia and Alzheimer disease deteriorate the quality of life of the senior generation. These conditions have become the global problem. The project of Surgut Centralized Library System is aimed to support mental health in senior users and mental development in kids. Training courses have been developed. Psychologists, teachers (of English, speed reading, chess) have been involved. The project is accomplished through the support of Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District) Governor’s grant.
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Kapustina, A. V., and H. T. Oniani. "MENTAL PERFORMANCE AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS." In The 16th «OCCUPATION and HEALTH» Russian National Congress with International Participation (OHRNC-2021). FSBSI “IRIOH”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/978-5-6042929-2-1-2021-1-231-235.
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Abstract. Introduction. In labor physiology from the position of the theory of functional systems there is a need to assess mental work capacity. The isolation of separate subsystems of labor tension, physiological state allows to develop a complex of measures for the prevention of health disorders. Purpose of the study – scientific substantiation of a systematic approach to the assessment of mental performance based on the study of psychophysiological features of the body of workers under the influence of neuro-emotional loads. Materials and methods. The studies included occupational analysis of work activity, physiological characteristics of CNS and cardiovascular system, and psychological studies with retrospective data analysis (40 professional groups of workers aged 43.80±2.91 years with 17.69±2.19 years of work experience). Statistical processing was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 20 software and Microsoft Office Excel 2010. Results. At a high degree of labor tension (class 3.3), the formation of an unfavorable physiological state, characterized by an increase in the index of functional changes, high levels of anxiety, an increase in the number of intra- and inter-system correlations in the cardiovascular system and CNS is established according to the materials of production studies Conclusion. System analysis, based on the results of physiological studies, allowed to determine the features of the formation of mental work capacity under different classes of working conditions with the allocation of independent subsystems - neuro-emotional tension of labor processes, physiological state, preventive measures.
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Alexeyev, A., Z. Zharylkassyn, and Y. Otarov. "CRITERIA FOR SOCIAL EFFICIENCY OF MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL RISK IN CHRYSOTILE INDUSTRY." In The 16th «OCCUPATION and HEALTH» Russian National Congress with International Participation (OHRNC-2021). FSBSI “IRIOH”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/978-5-6042929-2-1-2021-1-16-20.
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Abstract: The study was carried out in the areas of studying the criteria of the social efficiency of occupational risk management by: assessing the general and occupational morbidity of workers, researching the quality of life, analyzing the social and hygienic factors of health and assessing the social protection of workers. It was found that the highest incidence rates were found in a group of workers with up to 9 years of experience, which amounted to 42.3 cases, 537.8 days of disability. When managing occupational risk in production for a five-year period, a tendency was determined to reduce the incidence of workers in sick persons by 6.1%, in cases by 4%, in days by 8.2% per 100 year-round workers. When assessing the quality of life of workers, it was found that the values of indicators on the scale "Vital activity" among employees significantly increase with increasing experience, and according to the scale "Mental health" of the psychological component of the quality of life, workers with experience of 0-9 years have significantly higher values compared to the rest of the senior groups. In the study of the criteria of social and hygienic factors of health and social protection of workers, a tendency was established to reduce the subjective assessment of their health by workers with an increase in age and work experience. So social efficiency in terms of subjective assessment of their health workers increased in all seniority and age groups. The greatest growth in the subjective assessment of their health was found among workers aged 30-39 - by 8% (0.4 points on the scale). Thus, the social effect of occupational risk management at chrysotile production is determined in a decrease in the incidence of sickness with temporary disability of employees and in an increase in the criteria for subjective assessments of their health by employees of the enterprise.
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Kuzmina, S. V., and R. V. Garipova. "BURNOUT SYNDROME. HOW THE PANDEMIC OF A NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION AFFECTS MENTAL HEALTH." In The 16th «OCCUPATION and HEALTH» Russian National Congress with International Participation (OHRNC-2021). FSBSI “IRIOH”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/978-5-6042929-2-1-2021-1-296-299.
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Abstract: In May 2019, the WHO General Assembly approved the 11th version of the ICD, in which emotional burnout is designated as an independent condition due to professional activity. In March 2020, the world was declared a pandemic of CAVID-19, a disease that can be considered as an occupational disease when infecting medical workers in the workplace. Coronavirus in occupational medicine is considered as a new biological factor, the influence of which on all body systems is constantly being studied and updated with new data. Not only the biological aspect of the impact of SARS-CoV-2 is relevant for the health of medical workers, but also the impact on mental health of the situation caused by the pandemic.
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Wardani, Arista Kusuma. "Interprofessional Collaboration on Mental Health: A Scoping Review." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.04.26.
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ABSTRACT Background: The increasing prevalence rate of mental illness due to demographic changes became the burden of disease in primary health care. Effective interprofessional collaboration strategies are required to improve professional welfare and quality of care. Interdisciplinary teamwork plays an important role in the treatment of chronic care, including mental illness. This scoping review aimed to investigate the benefit and barrier of interprofessional collaboration approach to mental health care. Subjects and Method: A scoping review method was conducted in eight stages including (1) Identification of study problems; (2) Determining priority problem and study question; (3) Determining framework; (4) Literature searching; (5) Article selection; (6) Critical appraisal; (7) Data extraction; and (8) Mapping. The search included PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Willey Online library databases. The inclusion criteria were English-language, full-text, and free access articles published between 2010 and 2020. The data were reported by the PRISMA flow chart. Results: A total of 316 articles obtained from the search databases, in which 263 articles unmet the inclusion criteria and 53 duplicates were excluded. Based on the selected seven articles, one article from a developed country (Malaysia), and six articles from developing countries (Australia, Canada, Belgium, Norway) with quantitative (cross-sectional, surveillance) and qualitative study designs. The reviewed findings were benefit and barrier of interprofessional collaboration on mental health. Benefits included improve quality of care, increase job satisfaction, improve patient health status, increase staff satisfaction, increase performance motivation among employees, as well as shorter duration of treatment and lower cost. Barriers included hierarchy culture, lack of resources, lack of time, poor communication, and inadequate training. Conclusion: Interprofessional teamwork and collaboration have been considered an essential solution for effective mental health care. Keywords: interprofessional collaboration, benefit, barrier, mental health Correspondence: Arista Kusuma Wardani. Universitas ‘Aisyiyah Yogyakarta. Jl. Siliwangi (Ring Road Barat) No. 63 Mlangi, Nogotirto, Gamping, Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55292. Email: wardanikusuma1313@gmail.com. Mobile: +6281805204773 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.04.26
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Serikov, V. V., O. I. Yushkova, and A. V. Kapustina. "IMPROVING THE CRITERIA AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE STRAIN ON WORKERS IN MODERN TYPES OF WORK." In The 16th «OCCUPATION and HEALTH» Russian National Congress with International Participation (OHRNC-2021). FSBSI “IRIOH”, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/978-5-6042929-2-1-2021-1-468-472.
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Abstract. Introduction. The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to develop and scientifically substantiate physiological criteria for assessing working conditions in difficult cases according to indicators of the functional state of the body (in accordance with the section "General hygienic assessment of working conditions" of Guideline R 2.2.2006-05). The aim of the work is to determine changes in the functional state of the body in workers of mental, visual-intense, physical activity on the basis of complex physiological and hygienic studies to substantiate quantitative physiological criteria for different classes of labor intensity. Materials and methods. Complex industrial physiological and hygienic studies included an assessment of the degree of labor intensity with the analysis of retrospective data, physiological studies of the central nervous system, visual analyzer, neuromuscular apparatus, cardiovascular system of mental workers (52 groups), visually stressful (32), physical labor ( 71 professional group). Statistical processing of the obtained data was carried out using the statistical software Statistika 10, Microsoft Excel 2010. Research results. It is shown that the depth and time of the onset of physiological changes depend on the degree of labor intensity, which makes it possible to calculate the percentage of decrease in functions, taking into account the intensity class of the labor process. The list of physiological criteria for confirming the class of working conditions is determined by the characteristics of labor activity, with mental work these are indicators of concentration of attention and the volume of working memory, with visually intense labor, the critical frequency of fusion of light flashes, with physical labor, muscle endurance and heart rate. Conclusions. Quantitative physiological criteria have been established for various types of labor activity, which provide a valid evidence-based assessment of the class of working conditions according to the characteristics of the intensity of the labor process and control of the levels of the functional state.
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Romanovska, Diana. "Preservation of mental health of participants of educational process in а COVID-19 pandemic by means of applied psychology." In National Events on WMHD in Ukraine. N-DSA-N, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32437/nmhdup2021.5.
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The article examines the results of the study of the socio-psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, which are felt by participants in the educational process, conducted as part of the research «Overcoming the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the psychological service of education.» The rating list of social and psychological problems of the participants of the educational process, which are formed by the participants of the online focused interview from Chernivtsi region, is presented. An anonymous online survey of teachers has identified four main features that create a high level of personal anxiety and worsen the state of mental health, and hence the quality of professional teaching: fear of infection; difficulties with the organization of time in terms of distance learning; inability to perform professional tasks in full; emotional exhaustion. The consequences of the pandemic, quarantine, COVID-19 disease on the emotional burnout of teachers are analyzed. The article specifies the tasks of professional activity of specialists of the psychological service of the education system to overcome the consequences of the pandemic. Strategies strategies and means of psychological assistance to pedagogical workers, parents, students are offered for the purpose of prevention of emotional burnout and overcoming of psych emotional exhaustion after illness in the conditions of distance learning: practical-orientation strategy of preservation of mental health, formation of skills of psych hygiene; practical and constructive strategy of achieving emotional balance and mastering new trajectories of emotional response; personality-facilitative as an emotional support of the teacher in the personal-professional transformation to online learning, self-development. Keywords. mental health, socio-psychological consequences, emotional exhaustion, anxiety, strategies and means of psychological assistance
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"Mental Health Stigma among Medical Students & Residents; University of Jordan & JUH Experience." In International Conference on Public Health and Humanitarian Action. International Federation of Medical Students' Associations - Jordan, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56950/dwll6480.
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Background: Mental Health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental health problems are seen among healthcare workers, particularly physicians & medical students, who are exposed to a high level of stress at their study & work. Despite the perception of medical students and doctors of the importance of mental health, they have low levels of help seeking for their own psychiatric problems. Fear of exposure to stigmatisation is a crucial contributing barrier to accessing mental health services. Objectives: This study aims to assess stigmatizing attitudes towards mental health and its prevalence among medical students and residents in the University of Jordan and Jordan University Hospital. Method: This is a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study, where an electronic questionnaire (Google-form) was distributed, and 801 responses were received back. Data then were analysed using the SPSS software. Mental Illness Clinicians' Attitudes (MICA) Scale is used. MICA Scale is a short, self-administered instrument developed to assess attitudes about psychiatry and people with mental illness. Results: The total number of students participated in our survey was 801 medical students. Most of them were females and the mean age was 21.67 ± 2.26. The mean MICA score of the participants was 45.23 ± 9.59. Males had significantly higher MICA scores compared to females (P-value=0.000). Also, students who take medications for mental disease, students who said they would seek professional help if they needed it, students who lived with someone with mental disease, and students who currently have a close friend with mental disorder had significantly lower MICA scores compared to their counterparts (P-value<0.050). Moreover, students who their household income was higher and students who their father educational level was higher had significantly higher MICA score than their counterparts. Conclusion: Higher MICA score indicates more stigmatization attitude for patients with mental disorder. Males had significantly higher MICA scores compared to females. Keywords: Mental Health, Medicine, Medical Students, Residents, Jordan.
Reports on the topic "Professional Culture, Mental Health Workers"
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Owens, Janine, Rosie Allen, Amelia Pearson, Susan Davies, Catherine Robinson, and Alys Young. The impact of COVID-19 on social care and social work in the UK: A Scoping Review Protocol. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2022.3.0174.
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Review question / Objective: What are the medium and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on practitioners and organisations providing social work and social care to adults in the UK? Rationale: The pandemic has exerted adverse effects on staff morale and well-being, with sickness absence rises across the sector and increased difficulties in recruiting staff from agencies, despite a pre-COVID government recruitment campaign (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/adult-social-care-recruitment-care-campaign-launched-to-boost-workforce). Care home providers report extreme anxiety and distress, burnout and financial concerns (CQC, 2020). These worsened during the proposed introduction of mandatory vaccination care home workers (Bell et al. 2021). Social care workers report a lack of support in terms of training and equipment, sleep disturbances and increasing levels of mental ill health (Pappa et al. 2020; Williamson et al. 2020; Donnelly et al. 2021). They also report experiencing conflicts in terms of caring for people with diverse needs (Greenberg et al. 2020). Some research suggests that workers experienced professional growth during the pandemic, but that this came at a cost to their own mental health (Billings et al. 2021). Other research reported increased team unity and more reflection on what mattered in life (Aughterson et al. 2021). One editorial claims that the pandemic created a reduction of bureaucracy and the emergence of more efficient ways of working in social care in Local Authorities (Golightley & Holloway 2020). The evidence appears conflicting and frequently fails to separate health care and social care work, when the roles and structures of service delivery organisations are different. There is also a lack of differentiation in reporting on effects on the social care workforce in general, and specifically social workers and statutory social work.