conclusions the duties of social workers have been defined in the three domains of psychosocial health, psychosocial treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation. results the findings of the research indicate that social work headquarters have had a weak performance in introducing social work as a specialized profession. their performance in establishing relationship with scientific centers has be...

The need to train health social workers to practice interprofessionally is an essential goal of social work education. Although most health social workers have exposure to multidisciplinary practice within their field work, few social work education programs incorporate interprofessional learning as an integrated component of both course work and field experiences (McPherson, Headrick, & Moss, ...

Social work has a long tradition of being explicitly concerned with the ̳person-in-environment‘, recognising the need to take account of context when working to address disadvantage and maximise wellbeing. This concern with environment, and indeed with the concept of sustainability has, however, been focused primarily on the social rather than the ecological (Coates 2003; Besthorne & McMillen 2...

The professional education of child welfare workers is an important factor in the eflectiveness of the public child welfare programs. For this reason, information on the educational background of social work employees in these programs was included in the joint study made by the Children’s Bureau and the Bureau of Public Assistance in mid-1950; the information is summarized in the following pag...

The first international conference to address the question Where's the patients' voice in health professional education? was held in Vancouver, Canada, from 3 to 5 November 2005. The 240 participants came from a variety of patient groups, including marginalized populations, lobby groups and patient-as-teachers programs. In addition there were health professional educators, researchers and stude...

This study investigates the effects of human capital, social capital and their interaction on the performance of 1,398 Vietnamese new-born firms. Operating profit is used as the measure of success. Human capital is captured by individual-level professional education, start-up experience, and learning. Whereas the first two dimensions of human capital are measured with traditional indicators, we...

Introduction Interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice can play a significant role in mitigating challenges faced by global health care systems. To provide holistic care, health care professionals must be cognisant of podiatrists’ extending scope of practice. This national, evaluative study explored the influence of IPE at enhancing health and social work students’ awareness ...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we examined the connection between organizational changes and employees own evaluations of their work ability. MATERIALS AND METHODS In early 2010, we asked employees (n = 2429) working in the Finnish social services and health care industry to identify all the organizational changes that had occurred at their workplaces over the previous two years, and to evaluate t...

INFORMAL CAREGIVERS—primarily family members —are the foundation of rehabilitation, chronic care, and long-term support for older persons. The growing population of older persons and the changing health care delivery system (for example, shortened hospital stays) demand more of family caregivers and increase the toll on their health (Pinquart & Sorensen, 2007). To help them cope with these dema...