20 Jan Describe caregiver roles and responsibilities within your family or community.

Degree of burden experienced by a caregiver depends on several contextual factors such as sociodemographic status, culture, and social support. Cultural norms and values play a significant role in how individuals and families understand health, illness, and caregiving. These norms and values often dictate who might serve as the primary caregiver for a sick family member, where caregiving might take place, and the nature of outside support a caregiver might access.

An integral component of the medical social work profession is to prioritize the needs and goals of the entire family system. Medical social workers understand not only the needs of patients, but also those of caregivers. When determining effective interventions, social workers must consider the cultural context in which care is being given and received.

To prepare for this Discussion:

Consider your own culture and how caregiving is perceived and enacted within your community. Use Kaltura Media to post your video.

By Day 6

Post a 5-6-minute video in which you do the following: (please provide a well written transcript. Thanks!!!)

• Describe caregiver roles and responsibilities within your family or community.

• Identify how age, gender, marital status, or other identity characteristic determines who performs what type of caregiving role.

• Explain how cultural factors or traits might contribute to or alleviate caregiver burden, as well as affect caregiver well-being and quality of life. Provide specific examples to justify your response.

• Explain culturally appropriate interventions you might implement to relieve caregiver burden for someone who belongs to this cultural group.

• Explain the importance of culturally sensitive interventions for alleviating caregiver burden. Identity specific steps a social worker can take to advocate for this group.

Script

It is highly recommended that you write a script before recording your video. A good guide for translating the length of your written script into video time is about 135 words per minute.

Include a transcript and/or edit closed captioning on your video to ensure your video is accessible to colleagues with differing abilities.

 

Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources and the current literature using appropriate APA format and style.. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references both within the text and on the referencing section. PLEASE ALWAYS INCLUDE THE REQIRED TEXTBOOK as part of the references and if possible some of the REQUIRED READING if applicable. Please always start by referring to THE TEXTBOOK, below

 

 

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

Hospital Social Work 2006

Author: Beder, Joan

ISBN-13: 978-0-415-95067-1

ISBN-10: 0-415-95067-8

Edition/Copyright: 2006

Publisher: Routledge N. Y.

 

REQUIRED

Handbook of Health Social Work 3RD 19

Author: Gehlert, Sarah

ISBN-13: 978-1-119-42072-9

ISBN-10: 1-119-42072-5

Edition/Copyright: 3RD 19

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

REQUIRED

Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context 4TH 16

Author: McCoyd, Judith L.M.

ISBN-13: 978-1-138-92436-9

ISBN-10: 1-138-92436-9

Edition/Copyright: 4TH 16

Publisher: Routledge N. Y.

 

 

 

 

 

Required Readings

 

 

Learning Resources

 

Bevans, M., & Sternberg, E. M. (2012). Caregiving burden, stress, and health effects among family caregivers of adult cancer patients. Journal of the American Medical Association, 307(4), 398–403.

 

Lai, C., Luciani, M., Morelli, E., Galli, F., Cappelluti, R., … Lombardo, L. (2013). Predictive role of different dimensions of burden for risk of complicated grief in caregivers of terminally ill patients. American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care [Epub ahead of print].

 

National Association of Social Workers. (2010). NASW standards for social work practice with family caregivers of older adults. Retrieved from https://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=aUwQL98exRM%3D&portalid=0

 

 

Empeno, J., Raming, N. T. J., Irwin, S. A., Nelesen, R. A., & Lloyd, L. S. (2011). The hospice caregiver support project: Providing support to reduce caregiver stress. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 14(5), 593–597.

 

Northhouse, L. L., Katapodi, M. C., Schafenacker, A. M., & Weiss, D. (2012). The impact of caregiving on the psychological well-being of family caregivers and cancer patients. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 28(4), 236–245.

 

Given, B. A., Sherwood, P., & Given, C. W. (2011). Support for caregivers of cancer patients: Transition after active treatment. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 20(10), 2015–2021.

Support for caregivers of cancer patients: transition after active treatment by Given, B.A., Sherwood, P., & Given, C.W., in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, Vol. 20, Issue 10. Copyright 2011 by American Association for Cancer Research. Reprinted by permission of American Association for Cancer Research via the Copyright Clearance Center.

 

Snow, A., & Gilbertson, K. (2011). The complexity of cancer in multiple family members: Dynamics of social work collaboration. Social Work in Health Care, 50(6), 411–423.

 

Optional Resources

 

Getz, L. (2012). Listening to family caregivers—What matters most? Social Work Today, 12(2), 28. Retrieved from http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/031912p28.shtml

 

Kuzuya, M., Enoki, H., Hasegawa, J., Izawa, S., Hirakawa, Y., … Akihisa, I. (2011). Impact of caregiver burden on adverse health outcomes in community-dwelling dependent older care recipients. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 19(4), 382–391.

 

National Cancer Institute. (2013). Family caregivers in cancer: Roles and challenges (PDQ). Factors to consider in caregiver assessment. Retrieved from http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/caregivers/healthprofessional/page6

 

Vines, A. I., & Demissie, Z. (2013). Racial differences in social support and coping among family caregivers of patients with prostate cancer. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 31, 305–318.