This study explored the attitudes of 147 undergraduate social work majors to working with difficult families. Students indicated which problems (from a list of 42, including hot topics such as homosexuality, transgender issues, abortion, and substance abuse) they believed they would find most difficult to work with and provided information regarding their own experience with these problems (personal or family, knowing of others with this situation, and no previous knowledge). Student reactions emerged in three qualitative domains: affective, cognitive, and experiential. Affective reactions tended to be strong and were reported in regard to issues such as abortion, religious differences, and abuse. Cognitive reactions tended to be categorized as "not knowing how" to work with the client or lack of training, while experiential reactions related to either personal experience or, the converse, no experience with the population. A better understanding of the nature of student barriers to working with particular family problems is useful for developing approaches that can reduce this reluctance through more inclusive educational experiences. values | family problems | attitudes | baccalaureate students | undergraduate students |
This study aimed to explore the experiences of people with mental illnesses and their collaterals in the jails of North Carolina. Participants were interviewed by study personnel using semistructured interviews. Study recommendations that emerged for changes to increase the care that inmates with mental illnesses receive included: (1) conceptualizing care at all stages of incarceration process; (2) involving family when possible, reworking privacy procedures; and (3) increasing skills for working with treatment-resistant populations throughout the process. As part of a sister study, the authors were successful in stimulating policy change at the state level and describe this process.
The authors, both long-time LCSWs, utilize an existential framework and postmodern lens to explore the implications of increased professional regulation in clinical practice. Specifically emphasized, are the themes of litigation-fear and the threat of license revocation that are prevalent in the field of clinical social work at this time. The authors argue that this ''climate of fear'' can lead to a slippery slope for a profession that has long valued the individual's right (both client's and practitioner's) to selfdetermination, authenticity, and creativity and call for an increased conversation among practitioners about the desired role of regulation in the profession with the overall goal of protecting a true understanding of ethics in social work.
This article, written by a service user/mental health advocate and an academic/ practitioner, explores the concept of 'negotiated coercion' as a way to frame involuntary treatment that acknowledges its coercive essence, yet advances suggestions to maximize negotiation with consumers.
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