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TARGETED ACTIVITIES IN GROUP CONTEXTS The analysis of activities to meet consumer need
Get PDFThis article acknowledges the lack of analytical frameworks to aid the practitioner in selecting and organising activities to meet the needs of individuals and groups in residential, day care, and a wide range of social groupwork settings. The contribution of the relevant literature is reviewed. The results of the author’s use of a framework to analyse activities in a day centre for people recovering from mental illness are described.Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are to some extent searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication
Hiding and being hidden: The marginalisation of children’s participation in research and practice responses to domestic violence and abuse
Get PDFhis group is known within the literature to be a hard to reach population. This is namely due to their perceived vulnerability, as well as efforts to protect them by adult gatekeepers, and rigorous ethical procedures that make recruitment efforts often challenging. Consequently, this group, sometimes for their own protection, remain hidden in the shadows when it comes to research and practice responses that continue to operate from an adult-centric lens when children’s agency is not fully acknowledged. This paper sets out to discuss the multiple ways by which children who experience domestic violence both hide and are hidden by adults, rendering them invisible. Based on findings from a qualitative doctoral study that sought to explore children’s experiences of the police response to domestic violence, this paper highlights the interconnectedness between children’s invisibility in practice and research, and the processes through which they become and can remain hidden in these two arenas. The paper calls for a need to bring children’s experiences of domestic violence out of the shadows and to begin to acknowledge their agency and capacity as both research participants and victims
Managing The Impact of Covid-19 as regards the delivery of UK public services
Get PDFA consideration of the impact of Covid-19 on public services already under pressure as a result of years of austerity
Programming skills in social groupwork
No full textThis article offers groupworkers a way of tackling the tasks of drawing up a programme of work in a group. It uses groupwork theories about group process and leadership to help the group leader think about how best to use the group sessions to bring about changes in the group members. The technique of linear programming, which it describes, gives a framework for thinking about, and working on and evaluating, the work of a group within individual sessions, over a whole group session and over a total programme of groupwork. It is based on practice - the authors’ and other groupworkers’ - who have used it and found it helpful in looking at the complex issues involved in working out group programmes. It is not offered as a prescriptive model in groupwork, but rather as a way of developing links between theory and method which should lead to better more effective groupwork.Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication. Abstracts are word-for-word transcriptions of the original abstracts without any attempt to update terminology
Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: A Discussion about How to Integrate Evidence-Based Interventions in Clinical Practice Through Education
Get PDFThe benefits of incorporating evidence-based interventions (EBI) in mental health settings are well documented. However, many mental health settings continue not to adopt or implement evidence-based interventions despite the benefits EBIs offer providers. This formula creates a gap between research and practice, which needs to be addressed. Evidence-based practice and interventions are defined, and facilitating factors are described in detail and is followed by a clinical case example to provide further insight. Implications for social work education, research, and practice are also discussed. The chasm between research and practice, will begin to close as practitioners’ concerns are addressed through education
Improving simulation-based learning of a practical skill in nursing education
Get PDFABSTRACTBackground: Many newly qualified nurses lack competence in practical nursing skills. Peripheral vein cannulation is particularly challenging to learn and perform. Skill learning is often developed from a reproduction and memorizing of knowledge and guidelines. Learning peripheral vein cannulation associated with successful placement require a more thorough and deeper approach to learning.Framework: Marton and Saljö’s ways of knowing, a surface and a deep approach to learning can be used during peripheral vein cannulation learning to guide development and competence in this practical nursing skill.Aim: The aim of this theoretical article was to provide knowledge and understanding about two approaches to skill learning, a surface and a deep, and how they can contribute to learning of peripheral vein cannulation.Conclusion: Nursing students learning of peripheral vein cannulation influence pedagogy choice by supervisors. Contextual factors, such as supervisors, influences learning opportunities and development of PVC competence.Key words: vein cannulation, nursing education, learning, surface approach to learning, deep approach to learning
Editorial
Get PDFThis is the Editorial to the first issue of Groupwork. We are now putting all back issues on line. Articles have been scanned to pdf files. Though they may not look it, these files are to some degree searchable.This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author details as received at time of publication
Race and Groupwork: Some experiences in practice and training
No full textThe paper starts from our concern that many groupworkers adopt a ‘colour blind’ approach in their work. This ignores the needs and experiences of the various black communities in Britain, and denies the fact that we live in a racist society which impacts upon the institutions within which we work and the daily lives of us all, white or black, professionals or clients.Gmtpwork needs to find ways of acknowledging and then confronting racism, otherwise we are in danger of attracting neither black practitioners nor clients, leading to a position where groupwork is marginalised, professionally and politically, within social work as a whole.To begin the process we draw on the experiences of specially convened workshops, held at the National Institute for Social Work (NISW) as part of the groupwork ‘network’, to help us examine ways of dealing with race and racism in groups and encouraging black participation in groups. Training issues are also analysed and suggestions made, including the use of trigger role-play scenes, to help exploration of the personal and professional dimensions.Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication
Supporting Voices: Groupwork with people suffering from schizophrenia
No full textThis is an account of a group for schizophrenic people in an acute psychiatric unit attached to a general hospital. Workers in the unit had identified a number of (predominantly) young schizophrenic patients who were thought to be particularly vulnerable to suicide and who needed more help than had hitherto been provided in coming to terms with their illness. These patients possessed a good deal of insight into their condition and their symptoms were well controlled by medication, but they mourmed the loss of previous life-styles and were saddened by their diminishing prospects. The authors describe the setting up of a task-centred, problem-solving group that also sought to develop and maintain communication skills; the choosing of an appropriate therapeutic approach; and the importance of multi-disciplinary communication in a hospital. The group highlighted the feelings of loss and the need to regain control of their lives, experienced by people who are diagnosed as schizophrenic.Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication