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UA61/5 Social Work Newsletter [PDF]

, 2003
Newsletter created by and about the department of Social ...
WKU Social Work
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Practising ethically during COVID-19: Social work challenges and responses

International Social Work, 2020
This article draws on findings of an international study of social workers’ ethical challenges during COVID-19, based on 607 responses to a qualitative survey.
Sarah Banks, Tian Cai, Ed de Jonge, J. Shears, Michelle Shum, Ana M. Sobočan, K. Strom, R. Truell, M. Úriz, Merlinda Weinberg   +9 more
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Social work and COVID-19 pandemic: An action call

International Social Work, 2020
The social work profession, more than any other, is most hurt by the rampaging coronavirus (aka, COVID-19) pandemic given the scourge’s pernicious impact on society’s underserved and undervalued populations.
Solomon Amadasun
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Social work training or social work education? An approach to curriculum design [PDF]

, 2014
Population ageing, economic circumstances, and human behaviour are placing social welfare systems under great strain. In England extensive reform of the social work profession is taking place. Training curricula are being redesigned in the context of new
Chris Ring, Health and Care Professions Council, Health and Care Professions Council, International Federation of Social Work, Social Care Institute for Excellence, Social Work Reform Board, Social Work Task Force, The College of Social Work, University of Brighton/Age UK (Brighton and Hove)   +8 more
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Perceptions of Social Isolation During Institutional Rehabilitation among Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Recommendations for Integration [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
It is quite commendable that over the past 50 years, there has been a massive move towards deinstitutionalisation globally. However, this paper concurs with the view that despite the move towards deinstitutionalisation, people with intellectual ...
Agrippa Mabvira 1 1 Department of Social Work
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Syrian refugees’ perspectives and service providers’ viewpoints on major needs and future plans in Jordan

Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2020
The ongoing civil war in Syria created the world’s largest refugee crisis since World War II. As exile continues for many Syrians, this study aimed to explore what refugees perceive as their major needs and plans for the future in comparison to what ...
Mitra Naseh, Natalia Liviero, Maryam Rafieifar, Zahra Abtahi, Miriam Potocky   +4 more
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A green social work perspective on social work during the time of COVID‐19

International Journal of Social Welfare, 2020
COVID‐19 has challenged social workers to engage with health pandemics and provide essential services in conditions of uncertainty and high risk. They have safeguarded children, older adults and diverse adults in ‘at risk’ groups under tough conditions ...
L. Dominelli
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Mental health provider perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic impact on service delivery: a focus on challenges in remote engagement, suicide risk assessment, and treatment of psychosis

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting the need, utilization, and delivery of mental health services with greater challenges being faced by clients and providers.
Lindsay A. Bornheimer, Juliann Li Verdugo, Joshua Holzworth, Fonda N. Smith, Joseph A. Himle   +4 more
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Coronavirus Pandemic Calls for an Immediate Social Work Response

Social Work in Public Health, 2020
We are in strange and anxiety-producing times. As the media began discussing coronavirus, or COVID19, in January 2020, their reports were an early signal that world as we had come to know it would ...
Heather A. Walter-McCabe
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Pragmatism as a Research Paradigm and Its Implications for Social Work Research

The social science, 2019
Debates around the issues of knowledge of, and for, social work and other social justice–oriented professions are not uncommon. More prevalent are the discussions around the ways by which social work knowledge is obtained.
Vibha Kaushik, C. Walsh
semanticscholar   +1 more source