Mercedes Hernandez, Concepcion Barrio, Paula Helu-Brown, Caroline Lim, Lizbeth Gaona
{"title":"Substance Use in Relation to Mental Illness: A Study of Mexican-Origin Latinos with Schizophrenia and Their Family Members.","authors":"Mercedes Hernandez, Concepcion Barrio, Paula Helu-Brown, Caroline Lim, Lizbeth Gaona","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Little is known about family context and substance use behaviors among Latinos with schizophrenia. Learning about patient and family caregiver perceptions of use is critical to our understanding of how best to support these vulnerable patients and family caregivers. This study explored perceptions of substance use in relation to mental illness among Latinos primarily of Mexican origin with schizophrenia and their family caregivers. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 34 participants (20 family caregivers; 14 patients) with direct and indirect substance use experience, in their preferred language. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis, which consisted of comparing codes across and within patient and family caregiver transcripts. Findings revealed that substance use affected well-being, particularly patient recovery and caregiver burden. Strategies to address well-being included limiting substance use, being vigilant about patient use, and communicating the negative impact of use. The environmental impact and stigma of substance use were major contextual challenges. Patients addressed these by limiting their socialization. Family social context was important to how substance use was perceived and managed by patients and caregivers. As such, treatment models should consider a holistic perspective that incorporates family context when addressing substance use among Latinos with schizophrenia.</p>","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"47 3","pages":"175-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9280320/pdf/hlac014.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9645464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles LaBarre, Paul R Stasiewicz, Braden K Linn, Clara M Bradizza
{"title":"Pretreatment Change in Substance Use: Implications for the Social Work Field.","authors":"Charles LaBarre, Paul R Stasiewicz, Braden K Linn, Clara M Bradizza","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"47 3","pages":"229-231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9280326/pdf/hlac011.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9575629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Work Leadership Competencies for Practice amid Crisis: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Amina Hussain, Rachelle Ashcroft","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac016","url":null,"abstract":"Leadership skills are a critical component of effective social work practice in interdisciplinary healthcare and mental healthcare settings. Over the last two decades there has been increased attention to the importance of social work leadership skills for clinical practice. Moreover, social workers display essential leadership skills when supporting individuals and communities amid large-scale crises such as pandemics, natural disasters, wars, and other sociopolitical crises. Currently, there is an absence of literature on social work leadership skills for effective practice in healthcare and mental healthcare settings during times of crisis. To bridge this knowledge gap, this scoping review aimed to synthesize and map the current literature on social work leadership competencies in healthcare and mental healthcare amid crises. Arksey and O'Malley's five-stage framework for scoping reviews guided this project. Six academic databases were searched, and a total of nine articles met inclusion criteria. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify recurrent themes among these articles. Results highlight that leadership was defined as both a role and a skill set, and identified collaboration, connection, and shared learning as key leadership competencies for social workers. Implications for social work practice, education, and research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49284428","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}
J. Ilardo, Angela M Zell, Raza U. Haque, M. Ensberg
{"title":"Education and Consultation Needs of Social Workers in Practice with Rural Older Adults.","authors":"J. Ilardo, Angela M Zell, Raza U. Haque, M. Ensberg","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac012","url":null,"abstract":"The aging population and shortage of primary care physicians lead to increasing gaps in access to rural geriatric healthcare. Of concern is the lack of access to geriatric expertise, leading to adverse effects on rural older adults' health outcomes and quality of life. The Geriatric Rural Extension of Expertise through Telegeriatric Services (also known as GREETS) project surveyed rural physical and behavioral healthcare practitioners to identify gaps in geriatric competencies in the rural workforce. Using the Qualtrics platform, a survey was distributed to professional membership lists throughout the State of Michigan. A total of 106 responses were completed, of which 50 were from respondents who identified their profession as a social worker. As would be expected based on social workers' scope of practice and the settings in which they provide services, social worker respondents noted a higher need than the other practitioner respondents for education related to (a) managing chronic pain, (b) managing care of patients with multiple chronic conditions, (c) having serious illness conversations, (d) diagnosing dementia, and (e) discussing advance care planning. Having identified these needs provides a basis for identifying and implementing training and resources for social work and other disciplines involved in geriatric care and services.","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47369598","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}
D. Kranke, Debbie Gioia, Yvonne Mudoh, A. Dobalian
{"title":"Nothing Beats Experience: Case Study of How Withstanding the Effects of a Prior Disaster Impacted Provider Preparedness and Response during the Pandemic.","authors":"D. Kranke, Debbie Gioia, Yvonne Mudoh, A. Dobalian","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41752153","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}
Xoán M Lombardero-Posada, Ana B Méndez-Fernández, Francisco X Aguiar-Fernández, Evelia Murcia-Álvarez, Antonio González-Fernández
{"title":"Social Workers' Self-Care Practices: Buffering the Influence of Work-Family Interferences on Burnout and Engagement.","authors":"Xoán M Lombardero-Posada, Ana B Méndez-Fernández, Francisco X Aguiar-Fernández, Evelia Murcia-Álvarez, Antonio González-Fernández","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac010","url":null,"abstract":"As a reaction to specific job stressors, social workers can experience job burnout. The job demands-resources theory posits that personal characteristics would mediate the influence of job stressors on either burnout or engagement. Within this framework, this cross-sectional research aimed to analyze the relationships between work-family interferences (as predictors), self-care practices (as mediators), and burnout and engagement (as outcomes). The sample included 437 graduate social workers from Spain. Structural equation modeling showed that family-work and work-family conflicts negatively predicted self-care practices and positively predicted burnout. Professional and personal self-care practices positively predicted engagement, negatively predicted burnout, and attenuated the impact of work-family interferences on burnout and engagement. To the authors' knowledge, the present article is the first to test the job demands-resources theory with these variables on social workers. The findings support interventions for social work students and professionals enhancing self-care practices to promote engagement and to reduce burnout, and highlight the need to decrease job stressors and enhance job resources for social workers.","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45869055","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":"Standing against Anti-Asian Racism in America.","authors":"Y. Lee, Sophia Kim","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44270252","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":"Forgotten Youth: The Need for Youth Mentoring in Rural Populations.","authors":"Johanna E Barry, Daniel Pollack","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"47 2","pages":"147-149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39659822","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":"Uncertainty and Missed Opportunities of Build Back Better.","authors":"Christine M Rine","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"47 2","pages":"85-86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39672649","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":"Serving the Decedents of Wayne County: The Social Work-Medical Examiner Model.","authors":"Kendall Morris, Natalie Jensen","doi":"10.1093/hsw/hlac002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/hlac002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47424,"journal":{"name":"Health & Social Work","volume":"47 2","pages":"143-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39950091","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}