School of Humanities & Social Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Soc Work Health Care. 2009;48(8):721-35. doi: 10.1080/00981380902928935.
Decreasing lengths of stay in acute hospitals result in social workers often being unable to engage in planned interventions with clients over a number of sessions. Single session work is a reality for much social work practice. This article reports on a qualitative study of clients' experiences of a single contact with a social worker in a hospital setting. Building on prior research on hospital social workers' experiences of single session work, the study found that rapport building, empathy, non-judgmentalism, practical assistance, and advocacy are important features of the social work role in the intense and time limited context of single session hospital social work.
住院时间的缩短导致社会工作者经常无法在多个疗程内与患者进行计划中的干预。单次治疗是许多社会工作实践的现实。本文报告了一项定性研究，研究对象是在医院环境中与社会工作者进行单次接触的患者的体验。该研究建立在先前关于医院社会工作者单次治疗工作经验的研究基础上，发现建立融洽关系、同理心、非评判性、实际援助和倡导是单次治疗医院社会工作中社会工作者角色的重要特征，因为单次治疗的背景是紧张且时间有限。
