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Computer aided interviewing in psychiatric social work
(1993)This paper describes a research project on the process of collecting information for psychiatric social history. Subjects were patients’ parents. Ten subjects were interviewed by computer and fourteen by persons. Unstructured ... -
Conditional discharge: The role of the social supervisor - a preliminary study
(2006)The process of statutory community aftercare for restricted hospital order service users is acknowledged as successful. Previous research examining the attitudes of forensic psychiatrists to the use of restriction orders ... -
A critical review of the psychometric evidence base of the child abuse potential inventory
(2010)Screening for potential child abuse is an essential component of work in many child and family services. The Child Abuse Potential inventory (CAP; Milner 1986) is one measure developed to help in this task. The primary aim ... -
Relationship-based social work and its compatibility with the person-centred approach: Principled versus instrumental perspectives
(2013)In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in social work towards relationship-based practice. In this article, we discuss the conceptualisation of relationship-based practice from a person-centred point of ... -
Trauma: A unifying concept for social work
(2014)The aim is to show how traumatic stress provides a unifying concept for social work. In the last ten years, there have been significant changes in the nature of organisations that provide social care for people in the UK, ... -
Commissioning social care for people with dementia living at home: Findings from a national survey
(2020)Objective To explore the complexities, circumstances, and range of services commissioned for people with dementia living at home. Methods A national survey was used to collect data from English local authorities in 2015. ... -
Changes in commissioning home care: an English survey
(2020)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine changes in the nature, form and range of commissioning arrangements for home care. Design/methodology/approach: Data from two discrete national surveys of English local ... -
The challenges of commissioning home care for older people in England: Commissioners' perspectives
(2020)Home care for older people in England is commissioned through local authorities working predominantly with independent providers of care. Commissioners operate in a market model, planning and procuring home care services ... -
Perceptions of the social worker role in adult community mental health teams in England
(2020)There is a growing recognition of the importance of the social work contribution within community mental health services. However, although many texts describe what the mental health social work contribution should be, ... -
What do service users want from mental health social work? A best-worst scaling analysis
(2020)Despite being a profession dedicated to the empowerment of service users, empirical study of mental health social work appears dominated by the perspectives of social workers themselves. What service users value is less ... -
Home-care providers as collaborators in commissioning arrangements for older people
(2020)In England, care to support people living at home is largely commissioned by local authorities (statutory organisations with responsibility for social care in specific localities) from non-statutory home-care providers ... -
Complex care needs and devolution in Greater Manchester: A pilot study to explore social care innovation in newly integrated service arrangements for older people
(2020)Objective: The aim of this study was to describe emergent approaches to integrated care for older people with complex care needs and investigate the viability of measuring integrated care. Methods: A case study approach ... -
Older people as victims and perpetrators of crime
(2020)Older people are at a higher risk of becoming the victims of crime than of being the perpetrators of it, given the added vulnerability that comes with aging. This chapter examines crime in relation to old age. The first ...