Conceptions of authority within contemporary social work practice in managed mental health care organizations

The Impact of Job Resources on Job Satisfaction, Emotion, and Psychological Health Among Social Workers in China

Social work is a caring profession, as social workers are required to provide psychological support and emotional caring for clients. If social workers have psychological distress, low job satisfaction, and conflicting job emotions, their services for the clients will be severely affected. To achieve the goal of better serving others, social workers should have a good state of mind. Their psychological health, job emotions, and satisfaction are thus extremely important to their career. Our findings show job support, job autonomy, and job task can be very effective ways to improve social workers' psychological well-being.

Recovery from disablement: what functional abilities do rehabilitation professionals value the most?

OBJECTIVE

To determine whether rehabilitation clinicians representing different therapeutic disciplines would choose to recover from profound disability differently.

DESIGN

Applying recovery preference exploration as a data-collection tool, clinicians imagined recovery from complete disability in each of the 18 activities assessed on the FIM instrument. We hypothesized that recovery-choice pathways would vary among the disciplines because of differences in training and practice focus. We compared each clinician's preference for imagined recovery of the ability to perform each FIM activity relative to the other 17. Item-level preferences were explored by discipline. The mean absolute difference (MAD) in the medians of the 18 FIM recovery preference values between each of the disciplines was used to quantify overall differences.

SETTING

Inpatient rehabilitation unit within a larger tertiary care urban hospital of an academic medical center.

PARTICIPANTS

Ninety-three clinicians actively providing care to patients in an inpatient rehabilitation setting classified into 5 groups anticipated to have similar types of practices: physicians and medical students (physician group), nurses, occupational and recreational therapists (occupational therapy [OT] group), physical therapists (physical therapy [PT] group), and neuropsychologists and social workers (psychology group).

INTERVENTIONS

Not applicable.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES

Relative recovery preferences in 18 FIM activities.

RESULTS

The MAD value between the 2 groups with the least similar recovery values (physician and psychology groups) was 1.78 times larger than the MAD value between the 2 groups with the most similar recovery values (PT and OT groups).

CONCLUSIONS

There were subtle differences in recovery choice pathways that may logically relate to differences in the cognitive processes used in clinical decision making among the therapeutic discipline groups.