In practice, Social Work acts from different professional perspectives. For example, the legal case perspective must be methodically related to other case perspectives such as anamnesis and diagnosis within the framework of casework, ideally in a concrete way and with appropriate methodological awareness. It would be conceivable, for example, to subject the results of an introductory anamnesis and diagnosis to subsequent legal monitoring.
Are there scientific concepts or legal requirements for this methodological challenge in your country? Or do you tend to leave the meaningful linking of different case perspectives to the professional actors? What seems to make sense to you?
For example Social workers to help solve the vulnerability problems of families
So I am currently employed as a case manager in a clinical psychiatric practice in the US. Here the linkage is definitely left to professional actors. To do the most impactful part of our work you have to either be licensed with at minimum of a master's degree or work directly under someone who is. I myself work directly under a clinical psychiatrist, thus am able to provide interventions with them as my underwriter.
As for the current standard of practice, at least in my service area, we have adopted a care team approach, very much mimicked from the medical field. For example, my role is psychological diagnosis/initial introduction, supportive counseling, and scheduling for various medical/psychological treatment programs. My colleagues then take over and begin introducing social work services such as housing assistance, food security benefits, state sponsored insurance programs, job search assistance (although I regularly help my patients with resume writing and interview skills), and other social improvement services. We all work closing with the patients doctors to make sure that our efforts are in support of a clearly defined care plan, so we don't end up getting in each other's way.
All of these activities are guided by requirements set by a code of ethics, the state's medical/social work review boards, state legal code, and standards of practice within our respective fields. Any intervention we use has to be evidenced based and approved for use by all of the above mentioned organizations as well as a federal regulatory board. If we wish to employ a novel treatment path or technique, it first has to be written by our underwriter (usually someone at a PhD or MD level), then approved by the facilities board of directors and CEO. Then we have to inform the patients that it is a novel approach and get their consent before we can proceed. Also we have to submit a report on the effectiveness or any problems encountered to the state review board to insure all legal standards are being met and no malpractice is taking place.
Hope this helps clarify and give you some ideas for a framework.
Social work is always interesting, it is more of an observation and asking questions. Legalities changes from place to place, state to state and country to country. So it is mandatory to see the same thing in legally and socially. Though few things have legal acceptance but not social acceptance due to awareness, customs or due to other reasons.. These challenges change from one person to another and between the age groups as well. We can come across many gaps and that's where we can have the further research questions. I tend to do every gap as a question and derive a new concept... Once a strange new concept pops up in the society it gives rise to new discussions, researcher, perspectives and legalities and legal actions which becomes a new normality which always come with some challenging opportunities and all kinds crimes. It is not as easy as it looks and not as complicated as we perceive.. Be a part/become a part of your research and we can find miracles
Thank you very much for the very differentiated answers. It is interesting to note the apparently very high reputation of professional standards of social work in the USA. In Germany, this reputation seems to me to be in need of improvement, at least in the area of legislation.German laws allow great freedom for medical decisions based on medical art and medical standards, but in contrast sometimes give the impression in the field of social work that corresponding professional interventions are primarily the results of correct application of the law. Potential methodological problems result from these ambiguities.
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