Priority 16 from the Adult Social Work PSP

UNCERTAINTY: How is ‘wellbeing’ understood and incorporated into adult social work practice? How can we assess whether adult social workers impact on the well-being of people using services? (JLA PSP Priority 16)
Overall ranking	16
JLA question ID	0074/16
Explanatory note	Not available for this PSP
Evidence	There are some ongoing studies of supervision eg. Wilkins D https://www.rip.org.uk/news-and-views/blog/reflections-from-a-series-of-empirical-studies-of-supervision-what-have-we-learned-so-far/ Kieran O'Donoghue, Ming-sum Tsui; Social Work Supervision Research (1970–2010): The Way We Were and the Way Ahead, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 2, 1 March 2015, Pages 616–633, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct115
Health Research Classification System category	Generic Health Relevance

Extra information provided by this PSP
Original uncertainty examples	How do organisations manage supporting social workers to work in a strength based way? ~ How well are adult social workers supervised and supported to fulfil their roles? ~ Questions about our deminished rights as workers, the poor pay and poor working conditions, the increasingly stretched management and support networks that are no longer adequate and therefore potentially put people at risk. ~ The use of reflective supervision, is it happening? Its impact on decision making and the most effective approaches of enabling this for working with adults?
Submitted by	Individual survey submissions categorised by Carer, Service User, Other, Group Member, Educator, Manager, Other, Frontline Practitioner, Student, Volunteer. For full details of the type of submitter for each individual question, please see the spreadsheet of data held on the JLA website.

Extra information provided by this PSP

Original uncertainty examples

How do organisations manage supporting social workers to work in a strength based way? ~ How well are adult social workers supervised and supported to fulfil their roles? ~ Questions about our deminished rights as workers, the poor pay and poor working conditions, the increasingly stretched management and support networks that are no longer adequate and therefore potentially put people at risk. ~ The use of reflective supervision, is it happening? Its impact on decision making and the most effective approaches of enabling this for working with adults?

Submitted by

Individual survey submissions categorised by Carer, Service User, Other, Group Member, Educator, Manager, Other, Frontline Practitioner, Student, Volunteer. For full details of the type of submitter for each individual question, please see the spreadsheet of data held on the JLA website.

PSP information
PSP unique ID	0074
PSP name	Adult Social Work
Total number of uncertainties identified by this PSP.	61 (To see a full list of all uncertainties identified, please see the detailed spreadsheet held on the JLA website)
Date of priority setting workshop	20 July 2018

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