- Title
- Single contacts with hospital social workers: the clients' experiences
- Creator
- Gibbons, Jill; Plath, Debbie
- Relation
- Social Work in Health Care Vol. 48, Issue 8, p. 721-735
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981380902928935
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Decreasing lengths of stay in acute hospitals result in social workers often being unable to engage in planned interventions with clients over a number of sessions. Single session work is a reality for much social work practice. This article reports on a qualitative study of clients' experiences of a single contact with a social worker in a hospital setting. Building on prior research on hospital social workers' experiences of single session work, the study found that rapport building, empathy, non-judgmentalism, practical assistance, and advocacy are important features of the social work role in the intense and time limited context of single session hospital social work.
- Subject
- hospital social work; single session contacts
- Identifier
- uon:8004
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916473
- Identifier
- ISSN:0098-1389
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