Jennifer Radden
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262019682
- eISBN:
- 9780262317245
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019682.003.0020
- Subject:
- Biology, Bioethics
The practices of both forensic psychiatry and clinical psychiatry appear to require and to use, in boundary-violation discourse, a special way of referring to the heightened attention to the ethics ...
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The practices of both forensic psychiatry and clinical psychiatry appear to require and to use, in boundary-violation discourse, a special way of referring to the heightened attention to the ethics of interpersonal exchange. But this discourse and the judgments it expresses are each in need of closer scrutiny. A variety of factors make the determination of certain actions to be boundary violations unclear, including the range of alleged boundary-violating behavior, ambiguities in the fundamental metaphor of boundaries violated or transgressed, and confusion about the explanatory status of the value judgments boundary-violation language is used to express. In addition, disputes and disagreements regarding boundary-violation judgments require analysis--an analysis undertaken in this article through appeal to theories of professional role morality. Noted also is the significance of gender in boundary-violation ethics.Less
The practices of both forensic psychiatry and clinical psychiatry appear to require and to use, in boundary-violation discourse, a special way of referring to the heightened attention to the ethics of interpersonal exchange. But this discourse and the judgments it expresses are each in need of closer scrutiny. A variety of factors make the determination of certain actions to be boundary violations unclear, including the range of alleged boundary-violating behavior, ambiguities in the fundamental metaphor of boundaries violated or transgressed, and confusion about the explanatory status of the value judgments boundary-violation language is used to express. In addition, disputes and disagreements regarding boundary-violation judgments require analysis--an analysis undertaken in this article through appeal to theories of professional role morality. Noted also is the significance of gender in boundary-violation ethics.
Ilse Julkunen and Elisabeth Willumsen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447327196
- eISBN:
- 9781447327202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447327196.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
The chapter points at the growing need for different welfare professions to collaborate and coordinate their services in order to respond to service users’ complex needs. To solve complex cases ...
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The chapter points at the growing need for different welfare professions to collaborate and coordinate their services in order to respond to service users’ complex needs. To solve complex cases doctors, social workers and therapists often need to develop professional knowledge and skills that facilitate inter-professional collaboration. However, multi- or inter-professional services can give rise to demarcation problems and competition between professions. Using data from child welfare services in Finland and Norway, the chapter examines problems connected to the development of multi professional services that involve inter-professional boundary crossing and knowledge development.Less
The chapter points at the growing need for different welfare professions to collaborate and coordinate their services in order to respond to service users’ complex needs. To solve complex cases doctors, social workers and therapists often need to develop professional knowledge and skills that facilitate inter-professional collaboration. However, multi- or inter-professional services can give rise to demarcation problems and competition between professions. Using data from child welfare services in Finland and Norway, the chapter examines problems connected to the development of multi professional services that involve inter-professional boundary crossing and knowledge development.
Jane Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526119063
- eISBN:
- 9781526138811
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526119063.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work ...
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Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about their presence on the frontline. The book maps the developments in nurses’ work as the Q.A.s created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established nurses’ position as the expert at the bedside. Using a range of personal testimony the book demonstrates how the exigencies of war demanded nurses alter the methods of nursing practice and the professional boundaries in which they had traditionally worked, in order to care for their soldier-patients in the challenging environments of a war zone. Although they may have transformed practice, their position in war was highly gendered and it was gender in the post-war era that prevented their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state, as the women of Britain were returned to the home and hearth. The aftermath of war may therefore have augured professional disappointment for some nursing sisters, yet their contribution to nursing knowledge and practice was, and remains, significant.Less
Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about their presence on the frontline. The book maps the developments in nurses’ work as the Q.A.s created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established nurses’ position as the expert at the bedside. Using a range of personal testimony the book demonstrates how the exigencies of war demanded nurses alter the methods of nursing practice and the professional boundaries in which they had traditionally worked, in order to care for their soldier-patients in the challenging environments of a war zone. Although they may have transformed practice, their position in war was highly gendered and it was gender in the post-war era that prevented their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state, as the women of Britain were returned to the home and hearth. The aftermath of war may therefore have augured professional disappointment for some nursing sisters, yet their contribution to nursing knowledge and practice was, and remains, significant.
Ann M. Callahan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231171731
- eISBN:
- 9780231543187
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171731.003.0009
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine and Older People
Chapter 8 suggests that social workers can evaluate spiritually-sensitive hospice social work by drawing from models of spiritual competence. Evaluation in the practice setting is essential to ensure ...
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Chapter 8 suggests that social workers can evaluate spiritually-sensitive hospice social work by drawing from models of spiritual competence. Evaluation in the practice setting is essential to ensure that patients experience hospice social work as being spiritually sensitive, rather than spiritually insensitive or, even worse, spiritually destructive. This chapter presents several models of spiritual competence with a focus on Hodge (2011) and associates (Hodge & Bushfield, 2006; Hodge et al., 2006) to evaluate spiritually-sensitive hospice social work. Such evaluation not only reflects the importance of understanding the spiritual quality of hospice social work, but the need to ensure that hospice social workers have the necessary spiritual competence. This includes assuming leadership in sensitizing interdisciplinary team members to patient spirituality.Less
Chapter 8 suggests that social workers can evaluate spiritually-sensitive hospice social work by drawing from models of spiritual competence. Evaluation in the practice setting is essential to ensure that patients experience hospice social work as being spiritually sensitive, rather than spiritually insensitive or, even worse, spiritually destructive. This chapter presents several models of spiritual competence with a focus on Hodge (2011) and associates (Hodge & Bushfield, 2006; Hodge et al., 2006) to evaluate spiritually-sensitive hospice social work. Such evaluation not only reflects the importance of understanding the spiritual quality of hospice social work, but the need to ensure that hospice social workers have the necessary spiritual competence. This includes assuming leadership in sensitizing interdisciplinary team members to patient spirituality.
Joanne Westwood
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447318606
- eISBN:
- 9781447318620
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447318606.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter examines social media in social work practice to explore how organisations and practitioners can ensure it is used safely. In practice the barriers to engagement with social media, ...
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This chapter examines social media in social work practice to explore how organisations and practitioners can ensure it is used safely. In practice the barriers to engagement with social media, especially concerns about practitioner, service user and carer privacy and confidentiality are amplified. This chapter explores the opportunities which social media presents as well as the threats. New communication technologies have enormous potential for practice, but only as long as they are used ethically by practitioners aware of the importance of professional boundaries. This chapter draws on a small piece of research with practice educators about their use of social media with students. Practice educators can work with students to develop understanding of how social media interactions may lead to conflict and tension between practitioners and service users, but also how they have the potential to strengthen relationships and communication. Practice educators can contribute by engaging in social media activities, and by familiarising themselves with policy and codes of conduct related to social media in their own agencies.Less
This chapter examines social media in social work practice to explore how organisations and practitioners can ensure it is used safely. In practice the barriers to engagement with social media, especially concerns about practitioner, service user and carer privacy and confidentiality are amplified. This chapter explores the opportunities which social media presents as well as the threats. New communication technologies have enormous potential for practice, but only as long as they are used ethically by practitioners aware of the importance of professional boundaries. This chapter draws on a small piece of research with practice educators about their use of social media with students. Practice educators can work with students to develop understanding of how social media interactions may lead to conflict and tension between practitioners and service users, but also how they have the potential to strengthen relationships and communication. Practice educators can contribute by engaging in social media activities, and by familiarising themselves with policy and codes of conduct related to social media in their own agencies.
