Holding a hardback copy in my hand that contained my writing was beyond my wildest dreams and felt incredible. In 1988, Lewis Judd, MD, therefore director of National Institute of Mental Health, appointed a Task Force on Social Work Research, comprised of leaders in toprofession, to examine current status of research and research training throughout profession of social work.
Whenever Building Social Work Knowledge for Effective Services and Policies, Report of this Task Force.
Moreover recommendations for building research capacity within toprofession, A Plan for Research Development, provides not only an assessment of research status at totime. By the way, the report noted, There is a cr in current development of research resources in social work. For instance, IASWR ‘s mission is framed by toreport, A Plan for Research Development was grounded in numerous studies and surveys, noted in Appendix The report was seminal in development of IASWR to be toprofession’s jointly supported organization. By the way, the contributions of practicerelevant research to documentation of social work practice lag far behind dynamic growth of profession and professional education, and So there’s problems. Building Social Work Knowledge for Effective Services and Policies.
Quite a few services are offered in ‘community based’ agencies, both public and private, and in hospitals and prisons, while many social workers provide services in private practice settings. While providing more services than all other mental health care providers combined, cial workers are largest provider of mental health services. Moving Forward. To Now regarding aforementioned fact… Building on Social Work Contributions to Mental Health Research gathered presenters through a competitive, peer reviewed process which resulted in a widerange of research perspectives and design. It’s a well meeting was organized around. So meeting included social work mental health researchers, NIMH staff, NIH staff interested in social work research contributions, and representatives of key social work organizations.
Denise ‘Juliano Bult’, MSW, chief, Systems Research Branch, Division of Services and Intervention Research at NIMH and convener of tomeeting, summarized conclusions and recommendations as follows.
intention to read abstracts of oving Forward presentations and to see references associated with their published research.
It may be noted that while these abstracts are representative of range of social work research inquiry and theory testing, they are but a small measure of inquiry and theory testing in mental health oriented research conducted by social workers.
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While expanding social work’s contribution to mental health research, all of this resulted in a significant increase in the tal amount of NIMHfunded social work researchers.