Exploring micro-skills as the underpinnings of effective social work practice

Katz, Ellen; McPartland, Siobhan; Rines, Jenna

doi:10.1080/02650533.2020.1737514

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“…Every Social Worker in the hospital setting is compulsory to understand the medical model that is used simultaneously with the Social Work models and theories. According to Katz, McPartland, and Rines (2021), skills and micro skills need to be applied simultaneously during service delivery to drive more dynamic social work practice. As a practitioner in a hospital that performs direct service to clients, the Medical Social Worker needs to synergize micro skills and skills that are used to help clients.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pilot Study: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcome of the Psychotherapy Intervention with Parents of Leukaemia Children in Malaysia

Zin

Azman

Latiff

et al. 2022

ASWJ

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Reporting the preliminary findings and the feasibility of a pilot group psychotherapy intervention study of one hour session for four sessions, also known as 'PERKASA Intervention' towards parents of children with leukaemia, conducted at one of the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Malaysia. In this Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) design, a total of 19 parents agreed to participate and 11 participants were placed in the Treatment Group (TG), meanwhile eight parents were placed in the Control Group (CG). This study looked at the effects comparison between pre- and post-interventions, as well as reviewed the feasibility of the implementation of PERKASA Interventions. Feasibility refers to the evaluation of TG participants' feedback. PERKASA Intervention showed to positively impact stress, depression, anxiety, and coping strategies among TG at the pre and post stages. PERKASA Intervention has also been shown that it can be consistently used for targeted groups. The main challenge seen was the recruitment of participants during Covid-19 pandemic occurring all over the world. The data from this pilot study can be used as a reference for larger-scale studies in the future. This intervention was fully conducted by professionals from Medical Social Worker as therapists and the first to be implemented in Malaysia.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pilot Study: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcome of the Psychotherapy Intervention with Parents of Leukaemia Children in Malaysia

Zin

Azman

Latiff

et al. 2022

ASWJ

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“…While some support enhancing micro-skills for effective practice (Katz et al, 2021), social work needs to get more involved in policy and macro practice in order to prepare students to be true agents of change in championing social justice to dismantle oppression at all levels (Dyson et al, 2020). Macro social work is often devalued as "too big" to tackle; however, when we view things as static or immutable, we collude with the dominance in systems, reinforcing the narrative that there's "nothing we can do" (Yee, 2016).…”

Section: Social Work Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

#SocialWorkSoWhite

BlackDeer

Ocampo²

2022

ASW

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To date, social work continues to be a predominantly white-dominated profession; this is true across all levels of the profession’s current and aspiring membership, including students, practitioners, and faculty members. This racial composition is remnant of our profession’s history of upholding white supremacy and legacy of white saviorism. Not surprisingly, foundational teachings of social work center and champion white women (e.g., Jane Addams) while neglecting the important contributions of Black and Brown social workers to the profession. The harm done by continuing and upholding these practices extends to all spheres that social work education touches, directly or indirectly. While the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics would lead one to think of social work as a noble profession, the reality demonstrates that we continually fall short of that reputation. Social work education is guilty of exploiting vulnerable and marginalized communities for the benefit of the profession under the guise of promoting social justice. For example, field placement, a cornerstone of social work education, continues to send mainly white students into communities of color for the purposes of learning, often treating the community as guinea pigs in the pursuit of white knowledge through experiential learning. Although in the long run, field placements can have some benefits for communities, we need to be more critical about the practices we engage in and the ways in which they fail to advance social justice and reinforce the status quo. We are at a pivotal moment in our profession as we reckon with the dissonance between our preaching and practice. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the many ways in which social work education haphazardly 1) perpetuates colonialism and upholds white supremacy, 2) harms marginalized communities, and 3) fails to model our code of ethics. We make a call for serious introspection within the field of social work: to evaluate the power dynamics at play, reckon with our past, and plan for a profession that strengthens and lives up to its commitment to social justice. We conclude with recommendations for transformative change within the social work profession.

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“…Thehumanfactorisrecognizedasthethirdgroupofskillsrequiredofprojectmanagers.Previous researchdemonstratesthatthemainreasonforthefailureofITprojectsisrelatedtotheorganizational andsocialissuesratherthantechnicalproblems (Amid,Moalagh,&ZareRavasan,2012).Inthe implementationofERPsystems,themajorresistancetochangeandproblems(90%)aredemonstrated bytheorganization'shumanresourcesandstaff;andtechnicalissuesaccountforonly10percentof theproblems (Wognum,Krabbendam,Buhl,Ma,&Kenett,2004).Hence,theessentialhumanskills areindispensabletohumanresourcemanagementandprojectteammembers.Itisworthmentioning herethathumanskillscanbedenotedas"peopleskills" (Mahdavian&Mostajeran,2013). Katz(1974) introduceshumanskillsastheabilitytoworkeffectivelyasamemberofagroupandtheabilityto coordinatetheteam.Humanskillsaremostlyneededatalllevelsofmanagementinorganizations. SuccessfullyimplementedERPprojectsrelyheavilyonhumanfactorsthatembraceessentiallydiverse stakeholdersinprojectimplementation.Whenanyofthepersonnelofacompanyismainlyinvolved inanewERPsystemonadailybasis,technologicalandorganizationalissuesalsoariseinparallel withhumanandpoliticalissues (Akkermans&VanHelden,2002;Mendel,1999).…”

Section: Human Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Investigation and Classification of ERP Project Managers' Required Skills

Amalnik

Ravasan

2018

International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology

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Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) is a complex and costly process that is usually accompanied with serious risks. Numerous research projects have been conducted to illuminate ERP Critical Success Factors (CSFs) so as to identify the main factors in enhancing success rate. Although project managers' skills of ERP system implementation projects are viewed as one of the most effective factors in the success of such projects, scant attention has been paid to them and their unique aspects have not been sufficiently discussed in the extant literature. Hence, this article aims at identifying the most relevant skills of ERP project managers and proposing a classification scheme. Based on the results of the robust Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), 16 identified skills were grouped into four distinct categories: “managerial,” “project management,” “human resource,” and “technical.” The results of this article can help scholars and managers to grasp an in-depth understanding of the skills required for project managers and the challenges they have to mitigate while implementing ERP projects.

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Exploring micro-skills as the underpinnings of effective social work practice

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Pilot Study: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcome of the Psychotherapy Intervention with Parents of Leukaemia Children in Malaysia

Pilot Study: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcome of the Psychotherapy Intervention with Parents of Leukaemia Children in Malaysia

#SocialWorkSoWhite

An Investigation and Classification of ERP Project Managers' Required Skills

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