Paperwork

Paperwork for social work

By Tammy Stevens on May 2, 2016 at 11:30am




There are a lot of different types of paper work that social workers will  have to do throughout their career. Some of the paper work that social workers do are research papers, documentation, case notes, and interviews.





According to "naswpress.org" note taking was used in the past and record keeping was after the 70's. In 1930 went from note taking to process recordings, which was an attempt to document all that was going on. By 1950, analytic and selective recordings were used to show the boss or supervisor how each case was handled and approached. There are six primary functions for social work documentation. These functions are assessment/planning, service delivery, continuity/coordination, supervision, service evaluation, availability to clients.



According to "socialworkers.org" record keeping is needed to provide care and recognition to their clients and for defending purposes. "In the absence of specific social work laws, determining how long to maintain social work records may involve an awareness of clinical practice requirements, parallel laws for related professions, and the statue of limitations for lawsuits that may be filed against social workers as a result of their professional activities."


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APA

Writing Style for Soocial Work
By Tammy Stevens on May 2, 2016 at 11:30am


A writing style that is used in the social work profession is APA (American Psychological Association). Using APA format is a great way to organize a paper. APA can be used in social work when you do research, interviews, and case notes.

When you cite references for social work using APA you put the author, year, and title of the article. If you do not cite where you found information it is plagiarizing. It is important to put the citations in alphabetical order.

 

APA format helps make your paper neat and professional. To learn how to write APA you can use "owl.english.purdue.edu". This shows you how to cite many different genres of writing such as articles, journals, websites, and books. According to "apastyle.org" APA helps to express the key elements of quantitative results, choose the graphic form that will best suit the analyses, report critical details of reasearch, and describes individuals with accuracy and respect.

Common writing tasks that a social work major will have to do is critical review of a book, article, or the literature. All of these will need APA. No matter what kind of writing you do as a social worker you will need to use APA.

Yes there are many other writing formats but each profession uses different ones for different reasons. APA is the best one to use for social work.
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Social worker assistance

Social workers assistance with Elderly

By Tammy Stevens on April 22,2016 at 11am

There are many different ages social workers may work with such as elderly, children, and adults. Social workers can help elderly with clinical interventions, service interventions, and advocacy. When doing clinical intervention social workers might provide therapy for their client if they are feeling lonely or depressed. A social worker may have the elderly client do activities like arranging group outings. To help their client cope with aging they might have them record their life story.

Service interventions can provide aid to the elderly client too. The social worker helps their clients apply for appropriate services that they will benefit them and the social worker helps get rid of any unwanted problems in the services that are provided. Geriatric social workers are needed because the amount of elderly people are increasing. 




Advocacy is another way in which elderly can be assisted. Social workers will help stop elderly abuse and is by law mandated to report any suspicious behavior of elder abuse to Adult Protective Services.

According to "aoa.gov" "people age 65+ represented 12.4% of the population in 2000 and are expected to grow to be 19% of the population by 2030, totaling about 72.1 million older persons." This is great news for social workers wanting to work with elderly people. If this population o people are growing more social workers in this field will be needed. 

Taking care of our elders is very important. Social workers help elderly by gathering information about services that are available to them, coordinate care for many health systems, and help them deal with difficult government programs. Geriatric social workers also provide counseling services so the elderly can cope with every day life. According to "griswoldhomecare.com" counseling can make it a lot easier for the elderly to transition from their home to a nursing home or other care. Geriatric social workers can specialize in locating and connecting concrete resources such as: visiting nurse service, hospice care, aide service, transportation, housekeeping, lists of residential care agencies, nursing homes, the local Area Agency on Aging programs.