Family Centers in Rural Communities: Lessons for Policy, Planning, and Practice

Gillespie, Judy

doi:10.1606/1044-3894.3850

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“…This subtle difference has implications for workplace violence policy and training in urban and rural agencies. Gillespie (2009) described issues involved in establishing and operating rural family centers and found "the vast range of research on family centers has been grounded in urban areas or has failed to distinguish between urban and rural contexts" (p. 97). asked the question, "Does the practice of rural social workers differ from the practice of urban social workers?"…”

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Reflections on Rural Social Work

Waltman¹

2011

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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Practice Issues, Delivery and Management of Services, Global and Cultural Perspectives, and Historical Perspective. Key issues and enduring themes in this review are identified and discussed to demonstrate applications to practice, in order to benefit rural clients and communities. This article also reveals gaps in the rural social work literature and encourages academic-practitioner collaboration in future submissions. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE •Enduring themes are rural culture and values, generalist practice model, lack of formal resources, natural helpers and helping networks, professional challenges and opportunities for rural social workers, and a dialogue on rural-urban differences. F amilies in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2009. Mary E. richmond, a pioneer in social casework practice, first published the journal as The Family in 1920. It later evolved into Social Casework and in 1990 became Families in Society, focusing on the art, science, and practice of social work. The journal has contributed to the literature base on rural social work by consistently publishing articles on the topic, particularly over the past three decades. Even earlier, in 1922, The Family published an article by Josephine C. Brown titled, "A City Case Worker in the Country" (Davenport & Davenport, 1984).The main purpose of this article is to summarize the rural social work literature represented in Social Casework and Families in Society, acknowledging the journal's commitment to contribute to the published literature on rural social work. The scope of the literature review is limited to Social Casework and Families in Society, to focus on the 90th anniversary recognition. A second purpose is to acquaint-and in some instances re-acquaint-educators, policymakers, agency administrators, and practitioners with the array of rural social work literature published in the journal. A typology is included in the Appendix to assist readers in identifying citations by category: research and Theory, Direct Practice Issues, Delivery and Management of Services, Global and Cultural Perspectives, and historical Perspective. 1 Several key issues in rural social work are presented and discussed in this review. These key issues, familiar to those in the rural social work field, emerge as enduring themes in the literature review: rural culture and values, generalist practice model, lack of formal resources, natural helpers and natural helping networks, professional challenges and opportunities for rural social workers, and a dialogue on rural-urban differences. These historical and current themes impact rural social work education, policy, administration, and practice.

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Reflections on Rural Social Work

Waltman¹

2011

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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“…Context is situational information that facilitates a common understanding of an operating environment (Durante & Good win 1992). For example, 'rural' has been identified as a distinct practice context that is similar across countries and continents (Bodor et al 2004, Gillespie 2009). Exactly which rural conditions or circumstances could inform an analysis in relation to university clinics was difficult to define.…”

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The role of context in establishing university clinics

Allan

O’Meara

Pope

et al. 2010

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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Healthcare systems have a vested interest in employing work-ready graduates. The challenge for universities is to find ways to provide workplace learning that incorporates student education and high quality patient care. Inland areas of Australia, similar to other rural locations globally, experience additional challenges including a relatively high incidence of ill health, increasing demand for health services, chronic workforce shortages and ageing of the existing rural health workforce. In this paper, we conceptualise and describe the research findings related to context from a consultative enquiry into university clinics conducted in 2008. Interview participants were drawn from twenty university clinics in Australia and New Zealand. A consistent theme throughout the interviews was tensions that arose between the role of education and healthcare provision within university clinics. Many interview participants described ways they managed these tensions to meet the expectations of students, educators and the community. The patient supply is the most critical factor in the context of university clinic operations. It is vital to both the educator and the healthcare provider roles. In inland areas with sparse populations a number of strategies, such as outreach clinics, hospital or health centre- based clinics and multi-disciplinary sites, will have to be developed if university clinics are to operate effectively for students and patients.

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Developing Smart Social Services for Mending the Gap in Development Inequalities

Žganec

2021

European Social Work Education and Practice

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Family Centers in Rural Communities: Lessons for Policy, Planning, and Practice

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Reflections on Rural Social Work

Reflections on Rural Social Work

The role of context in establishing university clinics

Developing Smart Social Services for Mending the Gap in Development Inequalities

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