Online mental health resources in Wuhan amid the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of social workers

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In this article, we apply theories of non-citizenship assemblage to conceptualise the dynamic relationship of social determinants of health for international students in Canada who face barriers to accessing COVID-19 vaccines and verifying their vaccination status. Social workers’ roles in responding to and reducing these inequities are also discussed with attention to micro practice, meso service integration, and macro public policy advocacy. Through theorising assembled inequities emerging from Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination policies, this article offers guidance for future social work research and practice towards promoting justice and equity for transnational populations who are often excluded from domestic social welfare programmes.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…This framework includes micro, meso and macro practice levels, as previous literature has shown that integrated efforts on these levels can optimise the delivery of social work services and improve their quality (e.g. Zhao et al, 2022aZhao et al, , 2022b.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assembling social determinants of health: COVID-19 vaccination inequities for international students in Canada

Zhao

Bhuyan

2023

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“…At the same time, its indigenized knowledge of mental health and related services programmes is steadily growing (Zhu et al, 2020). For example, as the first country in the world to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, research on mental health services during the pandemic in China has already surged (Zhao et al, 2022). In this case, China has not only become a knowledge producer in mental health services, but can also make its knowledge available to other countries.…”

Section: Transnational Kt From a Postcolonial Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Building upon the concept of transcreation, this section reconceptualizes transnational KT in mental health services through the levels of micro intervention, meso service integration as well as macro policy advocacy and reform, an integrative framework that is often overlooked by social work researchers and practitioners in mental health (Zhao et al, 2022).…”

Section: Transnational Kt In Mental Health Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconceptualizing transnational knowledge transfer in mental health services: Reflection upon the postcolonial era

Zhao,

Wilson,

Tan

et al. 2024

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Knowledge transfer in global mental health services has long been depicted from Western perspectives. This article destabilizes this discourse through a conceptual model that integrates the top-down approach (macro postcolonial context, meso transnational knowledge transfer and micro mental health programmes) and the bottom-up approach (the roles of transcreation in reconfiguring micro mental health intervention, meso mental health services integration and macro policy advocacy and reform). This article raises social workers’ awareness of ongoing development of mental health services from a decolonizing perspective, and guides social work research and practice to continue the decolonization of global mental health services.

“…In the management of crisis-related funerals, therefore, the social worker has to address the needs of the families and mediate their interaction with the funeral home to facilitate a smooth operation and responsive service. What is more, the application of technology plays an essential role during the pandemic as organizing remote funeral ceremonies and providing online services become primary alternatives to address people’s needs and ensure their safety (Uriu et al, 2021; Zhao et al, 2022).…”

Section: Funeral Social Work Practices In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social work and funeral service: A proposed framework for practice

Tan

Tsang

Jing³

et al. 2023

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Funeral services are related to the vital interests of human beings and are supposed to meet people’s social, psychological and spiritual needs. More and more people from the funeral service industry have realized the importance of bringing helping professionals into the funeral service industry to fill in service gaps. Based on the Strategies and Skills Learning and Development system, a practice framework for funeral social work is proposed. The framework incorporates services in direct service, education and training, administrative management and research development. It targets families, relatives and other related people of the deceased, staff and management and local communities.