An Aboriginal woman and Australian Health Care
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Elsie is an Aboriginal woman in her early fifties who is having problems dealing with the fact that her family is disintegrating around her. She has three grown children: the eldest, her only daughter has left home and has little contact with the family; the second child, a son, is facing a prison sentence for theft, his third offense; the youngest boy, 19 years old, seems to be the mainstay of the family, but is feuding with his mother, so may also leave soon. The father of Elsie's three children has had previous substance abuse problems, and left the home over a year ago. Elsie is on the verge of a breakdown, worrying about her son going to jail, worrying about the daughter she never sees, and the remaining child she may soon lose. She has lost two previous children, but we don't know how. Elsie needs counseling and support services and needs to accept the fact that children grow up and leave home. She must create a new life for herself, such as by community involvement, so that she is not completely alone, or reconcile with Tommy, the father of her children. Welfare mothers suffer from more psychological distress and psychiatric disturbances than other groups (Rosen, Spencer, Tolman, Williams and Jackson 2002, pp.157-165). Nineteen percent of welfare recipients meet the criteria for one of four DSM-III-R psychiatric diagnoses included in a survey by these researchers. Excessive anxiety and uncontrollable worry about a number of events, which is the
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taff completing such forms on nursing-home patients have been found to miss many patients who were receiving psychotropic medications. However, after further specialized training sessions led by psychiatric clinical nurse specialists to educate nurses and social workers about psychotropic medications, clinical characteristics of psychiatric diagnosis, chart review methods, and coordination of medical care mental health intervention, significant increases in diagnostic ability were seen. This points to the need for accurately diagnosing patients who may need mental health intervention, and how to know when they are on medication.
Unfortunately, there are not enough well-trained social workers available for serving the older population. Scharlach, Simon and Dal Santo (2002, pp.5-17) found in California that only 42 percent of adult protective service workers, 36 percent of case managers, and less than 10 percent of other personnel had masters' degrees in social work. Qualified personnel are not being hired for several reasons - inadequate salaries, insufficient ethnically diverse applicants, and lack of properly educated and trained personnel. Another problem is that social workers overwhelmingly focus on personal rather than
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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