Many caseworkers perceive that the new information technology compromises their ability to offer services at all or in the quality of the services because it has greatly increased their caseloads, therefore making it impossible to deliver the services they previously could on a client by client basis. As stated above, the ability to perceive that younger clients may be getting more services may not occur to case workers over 35 and would probably to those who are under that age. This is especially the case when the it system goes down and then they can not deliver services via paper or have to reschedule a visit. This just further clogs the caseworker's overworked schedule. Additionally, there would be a question of how it would affect the documentation of client information in an evidence-based environment, especially when one is documenting client issues for pending court dates or court-appointed actions.
Supervisors generally perceive that the use of technology increases accountability of the social workers to deliver services for every precious dollar allocated. This is based on the sheer amount of data that is being processed and that is available at one to three keystrokes or the movement of a mouse. Theoretically, this should improve the performance of an evidence-based practice. However, if the client is lost in the melange, it is easy to sympathize with the caseworker's worries.
Supervisors perceive that it helps the social worker to provide more services to the clients. They are generally not taking into account the increased work loads and conceptual anxiety exhibited on the part of the social workers and their clients. This ability to deliver impacts directly upon accountability and as pointed above, this delivery may depend on the exposure to and familiarity with it. The supervisors perceive that it increases their subordinates discipline and makes them able to do more with less.
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The social work methodology for this research proposal will be similar to that used in studies in online education as evidenced in online and remote learning environments. Even more importantly,...
Factors such as previous exposure to/experience with technology, confidence and anxiety when confronted with mathematical issues or propositions, ease of personal interactions, other sources of anxiety or situations that inspire confidence, and a host of other related professional and personal metrics were taken, in order to be correlated with measurements of overall technology use, technology-inspired anxiety, an technological confidence. Measures were all recorded quantitatively using a standard Likert scale
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The creation of timely and well-designed outputs leads to further information recording, correcting and completing previous recordings. This builds into a "virtuous circle (Gatehouse et al.)." Social workers rendering children's services should analyze their own work, compare it with others and contribute their data for evaluation (Gatehouse et al., 2004). They need output tools in order to do this. The critical outputs for improving child protection services are, in most
I told her that there had been three caseworkers since I had been in foster care this time, but none of them had ever gone to visit my mom. She had been alone in all of this. It wasn't fair for her. The third caseworker visited my mom and saw how hard she was trying. I was able to go home overnight and then, finally, we were all back together again
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