This study aims to describe the housing situation of people with mental health problems within a specific geographical context: the Segrià region. To this end, a descriptive investigation was carried out using a mixed-methods approach that combined quantitative and qualitative techniques. The fieldwork included 303 surveys completed by people affected and six focus groups: three with mental health and social care professionals, and three with people experiencing mental health problems.
This article examines the ethical, operational and interdisciplinary challenges encountered by psychosocial teams in implementing the sentence reduction through reading programme within the Brazilian prison system. Drawing on a qualitative multiple case study conducted in five penitentiary units in the state of Maranhão between 2022 and 2025, the research analysed the practices of seven professionals (five social workers and two psychologists) through documentary analysis and participant observation.
The Home Care Service (SAD, from the Spanish) is a core provision within Basic Social Services (SSB, from the Spanish) in Catalonia, particularly relevant in the context of population ageing and the ongoing processes of deinstitutionalisation of care. Its effectiveness is closely tied to the working conditions of frontline care professionals, establishing a structural link between service quality and the quality of employment.
This study examines the role of social workers in bereavement interventions across physical, psychosocial and spiritual dimensions, employing techniques and skills that enhance their effectiveness in this field. To this end, a systematic review was undertaken to determine whether these interventions have been adequately researched and to assess the extent of the scientific literature on the topic. Analysis of the extracted data revealed the presence of interventions conducted by social workers in bereavement contexts and at the end of life across various settings.
The evolution of clinical information systems has enabled the integration of processes at workstations, providing significant benefits for patient care. At the same time, the development of a social health work process (SHWP) has become a priority for our field. For this reason, the Social Work Coordination Unit at the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) set a goal of establishing an SHWP in ICS hospitals and integrating this process into electronic medical records.
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on Generation Z, which made it necessary to design health promotion projects aimed at mitigating its effects. For this reason, a quantitative-descriptive research was undertaken orientated towards understanding their lifestyle habits with the purpose of incorporating their own vision. 588 high school students from an urban environment, aged between 11 and 17, of both sexes and non-binary participated.
Social work operates within the field of health and, in said sphere, in providing support to families in times of grief in particular. However, when it comes to perinatal loss, social work has seen limited development. This type of grief has unique characteristics that set it apart, yet it remains largely invisible within society. Consequently, this article aims to reflect on the importance of social work intervention when it comes to supporting families and, in particular, women who have experienced perinatal loss.
Continued social changes and contextual diversity are giving rise to new health needs. Key social components are becoming increasingly significant, adding to the psychosocial complexity that goes hand in hand with medical complexity. Paediatric palliative care is not immune to modern-day realities and it is influenced by social and political factors. Accordingly, it has become important to highlight the existence of social complexity factors when it comes to the assessment, social intervention and support of patients and families.
A recently established field in Catalonia, palliative care offers a substantial professional domain for social work. The care model required for its development, based on a comprehensive approach to all the issues arising from the situation of terminal illness and the need to care for the patient and their family as a unit, makes the work of the social worker paramount. This has been true since the earliest experiences in English hospices, and indeed it also applies here in Catalonia.
Within child protection work involving families with children at risk, the safety of said children has been traditionally prioritised over the stability of family ties, often leading to coercive and adversarial situations involving families which frequently lead to the child being taken away. The unsuccessful outcomes of these typical practices have given rise to a call for cooperation between professionals and families which must unfold in the form of specific interventions in order to go beyond simple rhetoric.
