The Pursuit of Quality for Social Work Practice: Three Generations and Counting

Proctor, Enola K.

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“…What is the unique contribution of an IPO and what is required from the adopting organization, their staff, and their service recipients? What IPO implementation strategies are effective in which organizational and policy contexts [33]? And why do IPOs report widespread use of implementation strategies in which they have little confidence of success.…”

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Intermediary/purveyor organizations for evidence-based interventions in the US child mental health: characteristics and implementation strategies

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BackgroundMany psychosocial interventions are disseminated and supported by organizations, termed “Intermediary/Purveyor Organizations” (IPOs). Because IPOs remain largely unstudied, we lack understanding of their scale and the strategies they utilize. The role and function of organizations that link resource systems with user systems, such as IPOs, have been identified as an important but understudied issue in implementation science. The objectives of this paper are to describe features of IPOs that disseminate evidence-based interventions (EBIs) for child behavioral health and identify the strategies they use to support their implementation.MethodsThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) listed 119 unique IPOs for the 127 child behavioral health EBIs listed on its website. Data characterizing each organization were drawn from NREPP and GuideStar profiles. From 119 unique IPOs identified, we found contact information for 108. We sent an electronic survey to capture additional organizational information and implementation strategies the IPOs employed in spreading the EBIs; response rate was 50%. Data are presented descriptively and analyzed using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and Latent Class Analysis (LCA).ResultsVirtually all identified EBIs had an IPO. IPOs train individuals, organizations, and communities and provide supervision for the use of EBIs. About 20% of IPOs trained at large scale, some training 500–1000+ providers annually. IPOs reported using an average of 32 distinct strategies to implement their EBIs, with most using educational, planning, and quality improvement strategies. However, there was little convergence around strategy helpfulness. The only significant predictor of number of strategies used by an IPO was the NREPP-posted implementation readiness score of the intervention. LCA revealed that IPOs either used several implementation strategies or used very few.ConclusionsFindings add significantly to knowledge about IPO structure, scale, and function. They use numerous and varying implementation strategies but report little consensus in what works. The study advances methods for measuring and characterizing real-world implementation by demonstrating the feasibility of using a common nomenclature, per a published compilation and of LCA for data reduction in characterizing profiles of implementation approaches.

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“…This show not enough induction of internship administrators was done to equip them with the necessary skills for effective assessment of student-social workers during their practicum or internship. There is much doubt about the capacity of cooperating internship supervisors to make reliable, evidence-based judgements when assessing pre-service social workers (Proctor, 2019). Thus, Bulanda and Jalloh (2017) find in their research that lecturers 'felt they had the authority or legitimacy to determine what was worthwhile in Social work education in Sierra Leone'.…”

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Social Work Education: Reevaluating Undergraduate Quality Assurance in the Social Work Unit, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

Bangura

2023

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This paper explores the policy and quality assurance discourse in social work undergraduate academic education ensuing at the Social Work Unit at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, following the recent reengineering approach due to the Covid-19 pandemic and technological polarisation. Regrettably, final year social work university pre-service social work student’s practicum or internship evaluation could not be finalised. The practicum or internship is a critical component in social work education as it engenders professional transformation, thought and development. Unlike other academic modules, which could be downright via online and distance education, the practicum or internship, being a practical undertaking in a classroom atmosphere, accorded unique challenges. The research question that the paper addresses is: How would certification of social work students be finalised when this time-tested evaluation had not been done? The paper employs content and discourse analysis to unwrap the philosophical and professional discourses being promoted by faculty in order to appreciate how they are likely to regulate succeeding management of social work education. The discourse is that the emerging ‘current normal’ should not trade-off the quality assurance structures that evolved consequently.

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“…While this researcher has hailed the indulgence in contemporary research as one of the prospects of social work interventions, and South Africa is rated high in social work research development, especially when compared with other African countries, this researcher still thinks that social work researchers have not been active to compete with other closer disciplines such as psychology and sociology [23]. While this observation calls for more rigorous empirical research, this researcher thinks that social workers should not form a scapegoat for their non-competitiveness, by pointing out that their profession is practice-based [31]. The fact that they are practice-based even makes it more imperative to do research that will applicably inform the practice.…”

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Prospects and Pitfalls Experienced by Social Workers Working in a Confounding Environment in a South African Setting

Kang’ethe¹

2023

Social Work - Perspectives on Leadership and Organisation

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While social workers are professionally and aptly placed to facilitate a turn-around environment rife with a conglomeration of challenges such as poverty, ignorance, and diseases, the chapter discusses the developmental prospects and pitfalls that confound their practice in South Africa. Opportunely, social work interventions continue to gain developmental mileage through increased training of social workers, their increased deployment in various versatile domains of social and economic development and increased widening of the scope of social work research, especially current research in fields such as HIV/AIDS and coronavirus. On the other side of the coin, the chapter discusses social work pitfalls attributed to professional curricular gaps as social work continue to follow a western-centric curriculum; the presence of various metaphysical beliefs and myths that weaken or derail social work interventions and a weaker research environment to offer a plausible and timely solution to the prevalent problems. The chapter concludes by calling for a paradigm shift in the social work curriculum as well as its indigenization to productively respond to the South African socio-cultural and geographical milieu.

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The Pursuit of Quality for Social Work Practice: Three Generations and Counting

Cited by 16 publications

References 53 publications

Intermediary/purveyor organizations for evidence-based interventions in the US child mental health: characteristics and implementation strategies

Intermediary/purveyor organizations for evidence-based interventions in the US child mental health: characteristics and implementation strategies

Social Work Education: Reevaluating Undergraduate Quality Assurance in the Social Work Unit, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone

Prospects and Pitfalls Experienced by Social Workers Working in a Confounding Environment in a South African Setting

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