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What are child-care social workers doing in relation to infant mental health? An exploration of professional ideologies and practice preferences within an inter-agency context
Johanna Woodcock Ross, Lucy Hooper, Elizabeth Stenhouse and Rod Sheaff.
British Journal of Social Work 2009 39(6):1008-1025; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcn029
This paper 'What are child-care social workers doing in relation to infant mental health? An exploration of professional ideologies and practice preferences within an inter-agency context' is written by Johanna Woodcock Ross, Lucy Hooper, Elizabeth Stenhouse and Rod Sheaff. Johanna Woodcock is a lecturer in social work at the University of Plymouth. Lucy Hooper is a research assistant for this study and also a postgraduate of psychology. Dr Elizabeth Stenhouse is a senior lecturer of midwifery research at the University of Plymouth and Rod Sheaff is a professor of health services research, also at University of Plymouth.
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Dublin Marathon 2009 (Lucy Darcy 02:51:37)Recently policies in the UK have needed to be redesigned to account for the infant mental health issues across the four tiers of the NHS. This paper explores whether social workers in the UK have the knowledge, ideological beliefs and professional acculturation to carry out the changes in their practice. Its other main focus alongside this is 'what are child-care social workers doing in relation to infant mental health'.
For this paper there was a lot of research carried out to see if social workers did have the knowledge, ideological beliefs and professional acculturation to carry out the changes in their practice. The research took place in a NHS Primary care trust (PCT) in an urban local authority. It used multi-method approaches to redesign the framework of mental health issues of under five year olds. This...