8 results match your criteria: "is a clinical social worker[Affiliation]"
"I Was Told to Think Like a Middle-Aged White Woman": A Survey on Identity and the Association of Social Work Boards Exam.
Soc Work
March 2024
LMSW, is a clinical social worker, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
The release of the 2022 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) exam passage rate report confirmed what many test takers who failed their exam believe. The ASWB exams are biased, with differential passage rates based on the test taker's race, age, and "English as a second language" status. However, the report only offered basic descriptive statistics and lacked insight into the test takers' experience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Experiences of Caretaking and Financial Stress among Social Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Soc Work
December 2022
MSW, MPH, is emeritus clinical professor, School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Social workers have engaged in promotive, preventive, and intervention work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that social workers are disproportionately women, and the essential nature of practice during the pandemic, how social workers experience caretaking and financial stressors warrants examination. Data are drawn from a larger cross-sectional survey of U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeath and Grieving for Family Caregivers of Loved Ones With Life-Limiting Illnesses in the Era of COVID-19: Considerations for Case Managers.
Prof Case Manag
February 2021
Diane E. Holland, PhD, RN, is a researcher at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Her program of research is focused on improving the transitions of adult patients from the hospital to the community and includes identifying early in the hospital stay patients who will benefit from specialized discharge planning resources.
Purpose:: Family caregivers of a loved one with a life-limiting or terminal illness are often overwhelmed by, and underprepared for, their responsibilities. They often need help from family members and friends to provide comprehensive care. When death occurs, funerals and other death-related rituals bring family and communities together to honor the life and mourn the death of a loved one and provide needed support to family and caregivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiopsychosocial Challenges and Needs of Young African American Women with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.
Health Soc Work
May 2018
Sarah Bollinger, PhD, LCSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice and director of collegiate ministry leadership development, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1001 19th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212; e-mail:
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer known to have poorer prognoses and lower survival rates compared with other types of breast cancer. In addition, TNBC is overrepresented in premenopausal African American women. Using grounded theory as the qualitative methodological approach, the present article elucidates unique biopsychosocial challenges and needs of young African American women with TNBC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMr. G And The Revolving Door: Breaking The Readmission Cycle At A Safety-Net Hospital.
Health Aff (Millwood)
March 2016
Carolyn Dickens is a nurse practitioner managing heart failure patients and director of the University of Illinois at Chicago program targeted at Reducing Unwanted Heart Failure Readmissions (RUHFR). Denise Weitzel is a clinical social worker with the EPiC Team, a multidisciplinary consultation service that identifies and manages health care superutilizers, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Stephen Brown is director of preventive emergency medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and project leader for the EPiC team. The patient's name and certain identifying details were changed to protect his family's privacy.
A patient with complex needs returns to the hospital again and again, despite his care team's efforts to reduce readmissions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCase managers: a key to reducing readmissions.
Prof Case Manag
January 2017
Jennifer L. Ellsworth, MSW, is a clinical social worker within the palliative care team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Throughout her social work career, she has focused on the geriatric population, transitions of care, and community support. Before her position at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, she developed and implemented a $3.2-million CMS Care Transitions Grant that funded a hospital-wide transitions of care program. Jennifer's contribution to this column reminds us of how we manage and support our patients individually while focusing on "key indicators," such as readmissions.