Informal Counselling in the Community: A Study of Members of Five Natural Helping Occupations

McLennan, James; Greenwood, Julie

doi:10.1080/03124078708549902

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“…After World War II, the fertility rate had increased until 1961, although the first oral contraceptive pill was released in Australia in 1961. Furthermore, in 1972, the prime minister of Australia at that time abolished the 27.5% luxury tax on all contraceptives (McLennan, 1998). It increased the use of the pills especially among young people, and the trends are reflected as the sharp change points in plots in Figure 4.…”

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Trend filtering for functional data

Wakayama

2023

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Despite increasing accessibility to function data, effective methods for flexibly estimating underlying functional trend are still scarce. We thereby develop a functional version of trend filtering for estimating trend of functional data indexed by time or on general graph by extending the conventional trend filtering, a powerful nonparametric trend estimation technique for scalar data. We formulate the new trend filtering by introducing penalty terms based on ‐norm of the differences of adjacent trend functions. We develop an efficient iteration algorithm for optimizing the objective function obtained by orthonormal basis expansion. Furthermore, we introduce additional penalty terms to eliminate redundant basis functions, which leads to automatic adaptation of the number of basis functions. The tuning parameter in the proposed method is selected via cross validation. We demonstrate the proposed method is locally adaptive and can identify change points through simulation studies and applications to real‐world datasets.

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Section: Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trend filtering for functional data

Wakayama

2023

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“…The term "natural helpers" yielded more studies (24 citations), but the range of this work often went beyond the trained and purposeful roles of CHWs as defined previously. some of the more exemplary studies used natural helpers in partnership with professionals to work with families in the child protective services system (Kinney & Trent, 2003), in preventing child abuse and neglect (Ballew, 1985), and in providing informal counseling (McLennan & Greenwood, 1987). Patterson and Marsiglia (2000) found, in a study of 12 Mexican American natural helpers, that they used a more "doing" type of helping style, although a facilitating helping style was also reported.…”

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Community Health Workers and Their Value to Social Work

2010

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Community health workers (CHWs) play a vital and unique role in linking diverse and underserved populations to health and social service systems. Despite their effectiveness, as documented by empirical studies across various disciplines including public health, nursing, and biomedicine, the value and potential role of CHWs in the social work practice and research literature has been largely absent. Thus, this article introduces social workers to CHWs, their role in promoting culturally appropriate practice, and their utility in collaboration with social workers in community settings. This integrative review also discusses current challenges identified by the CHW literature, including potential barriers to the expansion of CHW programs, as well as issues of training, certification, and sustainability. The review also discusses the close alignment of CHWs with social work values and principles of social justice, suggesting opportunities for enhanced social work practice and research.

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“…An exception is a proposal that those in the natural helping occupations, such as hair dressers, police, and teachers, be trained to provide informal counseling (Mclennan & Greenwood, 1987). Gottlieb (1981) de-This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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“…An exception is a proposal that those in the natural helping occupations, such as hairdressers, police, and teachers, be trained to provide informal counseling (McLennan & Greenwood, 1987). Gottlieb (1981) defined these “natural caregivers,” as he described them, as those persons whose work roles bring them into repeated contact with large numbers of citizens who come to trust them and to open up to them about their problems and worries.…”

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Reaching vulnerable populations: A framework for primary service role expansion.

Scott¹

1992

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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An ecological framework is presented for assessing the feasibility of expanding the roles of primary service providers. Role conflict, interprofessional tensions, role anomalies, training and supervision, practitioners' tacit knowledge, and service user acceptance are among the factors assessed. The use of this conceptual framework for reaching a broader client population is discussed, together with its implications for professional practice.

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Informal Counselling in the Community: A Study of Members of Five Natural Helping Occupations

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Trend filtering for functional data

Trend filtering for functional data

Community Health Workers and Their Value to Social Work

Reaching vulnerable populations: A framework for primary service role expansion.

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