This paper reports findings from practitioner-led research on engagement with families in the child protection system in Scotland. Engagement is here defined in a participative sense, to mean the involvement of family members in shaping social work processes. Key findings include the importance of workers building trusting relationships; the value of honest and clear communication, information,...

OBJECTIVE Caregivers of cancer patients are exposed to different types of psychosocial stress which influence their quality of life. The purposes of this study were to assess quality of life in caregivers of children with cancer and to investigate the relationship between the caregivers' quality of life and quality of services in the social work section. METHOD 125 caregivers were recruited. ...

Social workers' understanding of the relevance of documentation has evolved over time. During the profession's earliest years, social workers viewed documentation primarily as a mechanism to facilitate theory building, research, and teaching. This was followed by social workers' development of detailed and sophisticated documentation standards for clinical and other direct practice settings. Mo...

1 Student of Department of Health Sciences, Section of Public Health Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden 2 Lecturer of Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Sweden 3 Professor of statistics, Department of Statistics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Associate professor, Head of Administration of Community Medicine, Gävleborg County Council, Gäv...

The attention of the social work profession has been dramatically directed to the challenges of practice in the health field: the former "medical social work," a demure adjunct to medicine, has been reborn as "social work in the health field." The more positive connotation of the word "health" leads to more stringent demands that the social worker function as a full member of the health team wi...

Social workers often are central to the work of community-based consortia to improve service delivery and enhance community participation in health initiatives. This article presents qualitative findings from a multisite case study of consortia in the federal Healthy Start Initiative to reduce infant mortality in high-risk communities. The authors examine the facilitators of well-functioning co...