The Impact of COVID-19 on a Social Work Student

Semmens, James A.

doi:10.1080/0312407x.2020.1800187

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“…Journal editors accepted submissions in other formats, such as reflective notes, knowledge exchange projects, news, voices from practice, letters, and even poems (Leigh, 2020). Many reflection pieces were contributed by direct social work practitioners (de Kam, 2020; Di Ciero, 2020; Edelmaier, 2020), social work students (Semmens, 2020), and even nursing home residents (Shaw, 2020) instead of solely by academics. Authors from developing countries were not underrepresented.…”

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“…With that being said, a social work student looked at COVID-19 from a different perspective. “ While people around me either lost their jobs, or were plagued by nervousness about losing them, I continued my studies, my job, and my volunteering ” (Semmens, 2020, p.516). Gates et al (2020) conducted a study on the well-being of international social work educators.…”

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Responses to COVID-19 in Major Social Work Journals: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies, Comments, and Editorials

Cheung

2021

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: The main objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest studies on COVID-19related social work issues. Method: This systematic review aimed to collect, review, and synthesize all COVID-19related papers published in 43 major social work journals, a year after the first known case was reported. Results: The final sample ( n = 256) consisted of 85 research articles and 171 in other formats. All the studies involved a total of 46,195 research participants. The majority of papers (75.4%) could be accessed freely online. Service users including families, students, older adults, caregivers, refugees, patients, health care workers, etc. were either researched or discussed. Discussion: Gerontological social work was one of the fields that received ample attention. Papers published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work yielded the highest number of citations. Academics and social workers came up with innovative ways of practicing and researching during the pandemic.

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Responses to COVID-19 in Major Social Work Journals: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies, Comments, and Editorials

Cheung

2021

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…However, we do have snapshots from some social workers regarding their practice responses to these confronting circumstances. In response to a call for brief reflective pieces from Australian social workers published in several issues of Australian Social Work , practitioners recounted their efforts to adapt their practice, demonstrating flexibility and innovative strategies to accommodate client needs and manage their own emotional well-being in contexts characterized by uncertainty, dynamic change, and anxiety (Anastasi, 2020; Booth & Venville, 2020; de Kam, 2020; Hatzipashalis & Greenwood, 2020; John et al, 2020; Lording, 2020; Olivieri, 2020; Semmens, 2020; Swida, 2020). Importantly, several reported positively on the utility of the social work imperative of holding fast to a recognition of the biopsychosocial impact of the pandemic on clients and direct their interventions with that in mind.…”

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Paradoxes, contradictions, and dilemmas: Reflections on the contours of a pandemic and its implications for social work education

Brydon

McDermott

2023

Journal of Social Work

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Summary This is a reflective and theoretical article that discusses the impact of COVID-19 on social work practice. The pandemic, which made its presence felt globally from early 2020, continues to have ongoing and significant consequences for lives, livelihoods, public health, and personal freedoms. We argue that, while its specific contours are yet to be comprehensively researched, let alone the final outcomes understood, the pandemic has presented opportunities to develop new ways of thinking about social work and social work education. Findings Through a discussion of relevant literature, including a recent work of fiction, we contend that social workers have been able to adapt, to some extent, to the pandemic but in reactive rather than proactive ways. The biopsychosocial and person-in-environment perspectives that characterize social work education, theory, and practice might be greatly enhanced by the introduction of complexity theory in terms of developing new thinking about the theoretical basis of social work, enabling new questions and new strategies to emerge to strengthen social work responses to the challenges posed by COVID-19. Applications Arising from this theoretical article, there are many implications for introducing complexity theory within social work education programs. Complexity theory can provide a conceptual frame fit-for-purpose for social work pandemic and post-pandemic theory and practice.

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