{"title":"A New Chapter: A Renewed Purpose for Social Work in Healthcare.","authors":"Patricia Welch Saleeby","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145139048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining Professional Development for Mental Health Professionals: A Collaborative Approach to Achieve Mental Health Equity.","authors":"Cynthia B Greer, Monica Woodard","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article the authors explore a reimagined professional development model for mental health professionals who engage in trauma-informed practice to advance mental health literacy and equity. The model uses a multitiered support system to build community resilience and apply trauma-informed care when school counselors and social workers collaborate. It highlights that professional development opportunities beyond isolated training sessions are needed, and such professional development must include mentorship through continuous process support from peers, skill integration, and utilization in community-based settings. Learning from a circular, cohort-based model as exemplified by the Trinity Washington University and Kaiser Permanente practitioner scholars program, this program offers a model for sustained support of mental health practitioners working in diverse communities. Furthermore, the article highlights the importance of school-based mental health services, in which interventions can occur directly in a school environment, building on the point of resilience and eliminating access barriers that impede a student in need. Partnerships that work across disciplines can \"put the pieces together\" so that we deliver mental healthcare in an equitable and effective manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145139057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Plants in Therapeutic Ways: Social Work Practice with Older Adults.","authors":"Matthew C Brower","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cost of a \"Beautiful Bill\": Medicaid Retrenchment and the Moral Crisis for Social Work.","authors":"Ethan J Evans","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Help! I Need Somebody: The Impact of Cognitive Status on Designating a Healthcare Proxy.","authors":"Joanne Tompkins, Heather L Connors","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The goal of this study is to understand the characteristics that make someone more likely to choose a healthcare proxy. Using five waves of the Health and Retirement Study, the authors use logistic regression models to examine the likelihood of designating a healthcare proxy, based on cognitive status and other demographic, social, and health factors. Results show several variables associated with lower odds of having a healthcare proxy, such as lower socioeconomic status, less active social life, and better health. Authors discuss how social workers can help identify at-risk patients and normalize conversations about end-of-life care preferences between healthcare professionals, patients, and families. Authors also discuss the importance of end-of-life care conversations between healthcare professionals and patients, and suggest more work is done to identify organizations that can serve as healthcare proxies for adults without support systems, as these adults have a greater likelihood of needing a legal guardian, which can be costly and create delays in care and hospital discharge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Are You on the Phone Track, Are You on the Video Track, Are You on the In-Person Track?\": Outpatient Healthcare Social Workers' Experiences with Telehealth.","authors":"Margaret A Cristofalo","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since its rapid scale-up at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become an established and pervasive modality of engagement in outpatient healthcare. There is minimal literature on its use by healthcare social workers, who expand across myriad roles and types of practice. The purpose of this article is to explore outpatient healthcare social workers' experiences with telehealth and their perceptions about its effect on their patients, particularly safety net populations. Semistructured interviews addressing effects of telehealth utilization on social workers, their practice, and their patients were completed with outpatient healthcare social workers (N = 21) from two urban medical centers. Three overarching themes emerged from thematic analysis: (1) telehealth facilitators and challenges to access; (2) telehealth's positive and negative effects on engagement, assessment, and intervention; and (3) telehealth work satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Results illustrate the need for increasing discernment for the benefit of patients to delineate paths of engagement through video, phone, hybrid, or in-person modalities by assessing the types of contextual factors identified by study participants.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Closing the Health Gap: Addressing the Underdiagnosis of Depression among Men.","authors":"Harry Hunter, Shahnaz Savani","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dignity of Risk: A Path Forward.","authors":"Christine Beamon, Terry Altilio, Vickie Leff","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Descriptions of Spirituality among the American Public: The Relationship between Spiritual Salience and Specific Spiritual Understandings.","authors":"David R Hodge","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlaf029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlaf029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social work's ethical and professional standards underscore the importance of engaging spirituality in practice settings, but relatively little research has appeared in the profession's literature equipping practitioners to address client spirituality. To alleviate this gap, this nationally representative study determined (a) the prevalence of 14 different understandings or descriptions of spirituality among American adults and (b) the relationship between the self-ascribed salience or importance of spirituality (and religion) and specific understandings of spirituality. The most widely endorsed description of what spirituality offered respondents was peace (65.9 percent) and the least widely endorsed was structure (23.5 percent). Self-reported importance of spirituality (but not religion) was positively associated with all 14 understandings of spirituality. The results suggest that practitioners should incorporate a measure of spiritual salience into their initial brief assessment. In situations where the results of the brief assessment suggest a more in-depth exploration of spirituality is indicated, the understandings of spirituality discussed in this study provide practitioners with a working template of specific perceptions that can be explored with clients and, potentially, leveraged to assist clients ameliorate the challenges they experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}