Toh Ying Pin, Karthik R, Teo Chia Chia, Suppiah Sarasvathy, Cheung Siew Li, Krishna Lalit
1 Assisi Hospice, Singapore.
2 Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Centre, Singapore.
Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2018 Mar;35(3):523-531. doi: 10.1177/1049909117715216. Epub 2017 Jun 23.
Mentoring by an experienced practitioner enhances professional well-being, promotes resilience, and provides a means of addressing poor job satisfaction and high burnout rates among medical social workers. This is a crucial source of support for social workers working in fields with high risk of compassion fatigue and burnout like palliative care. Implementing such a program, however, is hindered by differences in understanding and application of mentoring practice.
This narrative review of mentoring practice in social work seeks to identify key elements and common approaches within successful mentoring programs in social work that could be adapted to guide the design of new mentoring programs in medical social work. Methodology and Data Sources: A literature search of mentoring programs in social work between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2015, using Pubmed, CINAHL, OVID, ERIC, Scopus, Cochrane and ScienceDirect databases, involving a senior experienced mentor and undergraduate and/or junior postgraduates, was carried out. A total of 1302 abstracts were retrieved, 22 full-text articles were analyzed, and 8 articles were included.
Thematic analysis of the included articles revealed 7 themes pertaining to the mentoring process, outcomes and barriers, and the characteristics of mentoring relationships, mentors, mentees, and host organizations.
Common themes in prevailing mentoring practices help identify key elements for the design of an effective mentoring program in medical social work. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings upon clinical practice in palliative care and on sustaining such a program.
由经验丰富的从业者进行指导可提升职业幸福感、增强适应力，并为解决医疗社会工作者工作满意度低和倦怠率高的问题提供一种途径。对于在姑息治疗等高同情心疲劳和倦怠风险领域工作的社会工作者而言，这是至关重要的支持来源。然而，实施这样一个项目受到指导实践理解和应用差异的阻碍。
本社会工作中指导实践的叙述性综述旨在确定社会工作成功指导项目中的关键要素和常见方法，这些要素和方法可用于指导医疗社会工作新指导项目的设计。方法和数据来源：使用PubMed、CINAHL、OVID、ERIC、Scopus、Cochrane和ScienceDirect数据库，对2000年1月1日至2015年12月31日期间涉及资深经验丰富的导师以及本科和/或初级研究生的社会工作指导项目进行文献检索。共检索到1302篇摘要，分析了22篇全文文章，纳入了8篇文章。
对纳入文章的主题分析揭示了与指导过程、结果和障碍以及指导关系、导师、学员和主办组织的特征相关的7个主题。
现行指导实践中的共同主题有助于确定医疗社会工作有效指导项目设计的关键要素。我们最后讨论了这些发现对姑息治疗临床实践以及维持此类项目的影响。
