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S S Dhooper

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PubMed1991

A statewide study of the public attitudes toward child abuse.

A statewide survey of adults revealed that they are well informed about some aspects of child abuse. They had a generally good intuitive understanding of the characteristics of abused children and child abusers, but a majority seemed to have a "deviance" perspective on child abuse. They considered abusers as abnormal and intractable. While three-quarters of the respondents were aware that they are obligated to report cases of child abuse to the authorities, one-fifth knew someone who had abused a child, but only a third of these actually reported the case.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

Childhood trauma and adult life satisfaction in a random adult sample.

640 randomly selected adults were surveyed about childhood traumatic events and their current life satisfaction. Respondents who had experienced traumatic childhood events rated themselves significantly less satisfied with life and were less likely to be home owners and more likely to live in families with lower incomes than respondents who had not experienced traumatic events (ns ranged from 44 to 232, depending on the items).

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1990

Identifying and mobilizing social supports for the cardiac patient's family.

This article emphasizes the importance of social supports to the cardiac patient's family as members deal with illness-created stress and needs. The dynamic nature of social support and factors contributing to its complexity are discussed. The article describes approaches to identifying and mobilizing the family's natural social supports.

Family↗
PubMed1990

Organ transplantation: who decides?

The author surveys the organ transplantation procurement program and identifies problems that the successes in this new field are creating. A major problem--the growing gap between the demand for and supply of transplantable human organs--is examined, and the need for ensuring equity of access to limited numbers of organs is discussed. In addition, the various approaches to solving the problem of inequity are reviewed, and the contributions that social workers can make to decision-making processes are discussed. Social work roles at the societal, institutional, and individual case levels are proposed, and suggestions for effective role performance are noted.

Decision Making↗
PubMed1990

Does social work education make a difference?

To test the hypothesis that state employees with social work education are better prepared for social work positions than are their colleagues without such education, data were collected in five areas, using different instruments and approaches. The data sets were scores on state merit tests for family service workers, employees' quality assurance scores, ratings of employees from supervisors, measures of employees' commitment to social work values, and measures of employees' confidence in their educational preparedness. Overall, employees with social work degrees, either bachelor's or master's, were better prepared than were those without social work degrees.

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PubMed1989

Social work and organ transplantation.

The nonsurgical aspects of organ transplantation are complex and beyond the expertise of professionals of any one discipline. This article addresses some of the issues involved in the organ donation, procurement, and transplantation process and suggests roles that social workers can play at the societal, institutional, and case levels in this new area of health care. Social workers can advocate against the commercialization of organ transplantation; help educate the public regarding organ donation; foster approaches to donor allocation that are free of social worth considerations; provide support to the families of organ donors before, during, and after the decision; and assist families to accept completely the death of their loved one. Through such services, social workers can free medical staff to focus on medical areas of organ transplantation and ensure that organ donation remains a humane and humanized gesture.

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PubMed1986

Importance of models for recovery from alcoholism: another view.

Models of alcoholism abound providing unicausal explanations of this complex problem and leading to narrow perspectives on treatment of alcoholics. All models contain elements of truth and there is a trend toward considering the role of various factors in alcoholism. Some effort has been made to incorporate more than one model into a treatment approach. This paper is another effort at synthesis and integration of various models into a comprehensive treatment plan. It recommends the addition of the sociological and familial interaction models to medical, psychogenic and moral ones, and suggests that focus of treatment should be shifted from an individual alcoholic to the alcoholic-in-his-social-situation.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1985

Social work with laryngectomees.

Laryngeal cancer has a high survival rate, yet the loss of the natural voice and a host of physical and psychosocial problems make recovery especially difficult. Written according to the outline followed by the articles in Health and Social Work's November 1981 Supplement on Specialization and Specialty Interests, this article provides a social work perspective on the needs, care, and rehabilitation of laryngectomy patients.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1984

Social networks and support during the crisis of heart attack.

The type, source, and extent of support received by the families of heart attack victims were investigated in this study to shed light on the nature of families' informal support systems. The author concludes that grown-up children and friends and neighbors were families' greatest source of emotional support but that professional intervention is needed to mobilize and supplement informal networks.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1983

Family coping with the crisis of heart attack.

Forty families of patients who had suffered from their first heart attack were studied during the hospitalization and after discharge. Areas of family functioning examined were maintenance of the emotional health of family members, financial management, household management, and dealing with children and their needs. Impacts of this family crisis varied among these areas as well as over time. Families employed different sets of coping strategies in different areas of their life. Implications of these findings for social work intervention in such crises are discussed.

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