Mental Health Characteristics of Social Work Students: Implications for Social Work Education

Horton, E. Gail; Díaz, Naelys; Green, Diane

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“…More than a third of social work students indicate high levels of depressive symptoms and are at high risk of clinical depression. Additionally, 40% reported having suicidal thoughts at some point in their lives, with 4% reporting they were recent (Horton et al, 2009). Poor mental health is related to reduced academic achievement and higher dropout (Poh Keong et al, 2015).…”

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Mental Health Attitudes, Self-Criticism, Compassion and Role Identity among UK Social Work Students

Kotera

Green

Sheffield

2018

The British Journal of Social Work

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Although many social work students suffer from mental health symptoms, the majority of them do not seek help, because of shame. Accordingly, the purposes of this study were to evaluate social work students' attitudes for mental health problems, and explore relationships among shame, mental health symptoms, self-criticism, self-compassion, and role identity. Firstly, 84 UK female undergraduate social work students completed a measure of attitudes toward mental health problems, and were compared with 94 UK female undergraduate students in other subjects. UK female undergraduate social work students had a higher level of negative perception in their community's attitudes toward mental health problems. Secondly, 87 UK social work students, completed the attitudes, mental health, self-criticism, self-compassion, and role identity measures. Self-criticism, self-compassion, and role identity were significantly related to mental health symptoms, and identified as significant, independent predictors of mental health symptoms. This study confirmed that social work students consider that their community perceives mental health problems negatively, and that their self-criticism, selfcompassion, and role identity relate to their poor mental health. The findings may help social work students, educators, and researchers deepen the understanding of their mental health symptoms and identify better solutions.

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Mental Health Attitudes, Self-Criticism, Compassion and Role Identity among UK Social Work Students

Kotera

Green

Sheffield

2018

The British Journal of Social Work

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“…Recent studies exploring the mental health characteristics of social work students have indicated that as many as 38% to 50% of the students from three different studies met the criteria for clinical depression according to the researchers' use of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Horton, Diaz, & Green, 2009;Lemieux, Plummer, Richardson, Simon, & Ai, 2010;Ting, 2011). Although these studies are limited in size and specific to locales, the findings are noteworthy considering social work education is a stressful endeavor.…”

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Experiences of Social Work Educators Working With Students With Psychiatric Disabilities or Emotional Problems

Mazza¹

2015

Journal of Social Work Education

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Social work educators have an ethical responsibility to graduate students who are academically, behaviorally, and professionally prepared to enter the social work profession. Although a student's suitability to the profession is not necessarily hindered because of the effects of a psychiatric disability or an emotional problem, sometimes it is. Meanwhile, little is known about how social work educators perceive and understand their work with students who experience these types of vulnerabilities. Qualitative face-to-face interviews were conducted with 26 full-time social work educators from 22 accredited social work programs. The findings indicate that these educators experience a combination of personal, ethical, and programmatic challenges during their work with students affected by or recovering from psychiatric disabilities or emotional problems.

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“…Gore and Black (2009) reported 19.7% of students reported being sexually abused during childhood and Russell et al (1993) 31%. One recent survey found, over the lifetime, 28% of social work students had experienced a physical assault, 19% had experienced a sexual assault, and 32% had experienced an unwanted sexual experience (Horton et al, 2009). A resultant 6% of social work students met the criteria for PTSD and 34% exhibited high-level depressive symptoms (Horton et al, 2009).…”

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“…One recent survey found, over the lifetime, 28% of social work students had experienced a physical assault, 19% had experienced a sexual assault, and 32% had experienced an unwanted sexual experience (Horton et al, 2009). A resultant 6% of social work students met the criteria for PTSD and 34% exhibited high-level depressive symptoms (Horton et al, 2009). Sellers and K E E P I N G S A F E Hunter (2005) found 69% of social work students had experienced problems in the family of origin related to; substance use (44%), mental health disorders (43%), and violence (35%).…”

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“…Research shows that victimization and problems in earlier life may have a positive influence over a student's choice of a career in social work (Biggerstaff 2000;Sellers and Hunter 2005). However, a history of trauma has also been shown to increase the likelihood of depression (Horton et al, 2009), make the academic transition more difficult (Banyard and Cantor 2004), and contribute to higher drop-out rates (Duncan 2000).…”

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Keeping safe: teaching undergraduate social work students about interpersonal violence

Agllias¹

2012

Journal of Social Work Practice

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Mental Health Characteristics of Social Work Students: Implications for Social Work Education

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Mental Health Attitudes, Self-Criticism, Compassion and Role Identity among UK Social Work Students

Mental Health Attitudes, Self-Criticism, Compassion and Role Identity among UK Social Work Students

Experiences of Social Work Educators Working With Students With Psychiatric Disabilities or Emotional Problems

Keeping safe: teaching undergraduate social work students about interpersonal violence

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