2015
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2015.1017074
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Thinking Big, Supporting Families and Enabling Coping: The Value of Social Work in Patient and Family Centered Health Care

Abstract: Patient and family-centered care has become a focus in health services. Social work has a rich history of providing responsive patient care. This study identified the contribution and value of social work to PFCC from the key stakeholder perspectives of health social workers (n = 65). Utilizing interpretive description, four themes emerged: (1) Thinking big and holistically, (2) Intervening with families, (3) Enabling patient and family coping, and (4) Maximizing hospital and community resources. Barriers incl… Show more

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“…Of a total of 22 included publications, one article elaborates on patient perceptions of integrated care [68] and three articles take the perspectives of health care professionals into account [576365]. It is, therefore, difficult to draw any hard conclusions on the values of professionals or clients.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Of a total of 22 included publications, one article elaborates on patient perceptions of integrated care [68] and three articles take the perspectives of health care professionals into account [576365]. It is, therefore, difficult to draw any hard conclusions on the values of professionals or clients.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This approach should be extended to apply to the meso-level where expertise is shared between professionals from different disciplines [66]. In the articles analysed in this study the value ‘shared accountability and responsibility’ was described at all levels: the macro-level between organisations [70], the meso-level between professionals [525763] and the micro-level between clients and professionals [39]. These examples demonstrate that values can transcend multiple levels in integrated care.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Patient navigators and lay health workers have been explored more in cancer care coordination, 34 as well as among pediatric patients with chronic diseases. 35 Policies that integrate social workers 36 or patient navigators earlier in the care delivery process, particularly for low-income families with children, may play an important future role in addressing the health disparities identified in our findings. Further, future surveys need to include questions specifically about providers’ and patients’ respective cultures as well as dyadic cultural competence between the two.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Our results may also offer some credence to the opinion that the role of providing tangible resources for patients can be so time-consuming that it detracts from the social worker's role as a counselor. 13 We hope to investigate this question further in future studies.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%