Health Soc Work. 2022 Jul 13;47(3):205-214. doi: 10.1093/hsw/hlac016.
Leadership skills are a critical component of effective social work practice in interdisciplinary healthcare and mental healthcare settings. Over the last two decades there has been increased attention to the importance of social work leadership skills for clinical practice. Moreover, social workers display essential leadership skills when supporting individuals and communities amid large-scale crises such as pandemics, natural disasters, wars, and other sociopolitical crises. Currently, there is an absence of literature on social work leadership skills for effective practice in healthcare and mental healthcare settings during times of crisis. To bridge this knowledge gap, this scoping review aimed to synthesize and map the current literature on social work leadership competencies in healthcare and mental healthcare amid crises. Arksey and O'Malley's five-stage framework for scoping reviews guided this project. Six academic databases were searched, and a total of nine articles met inclusion criteria. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify recurrent themes among these articles. Results highlight that leadership was defined as both a role and a skill set, and identified collaboration, connection, and shared learning as key leadership competencies for social workers. Implications for social work practice, education, and research are discussed.
领导技能是跨学科医疗保健和精神保健环境中有效社会工作实践的关键组成部分。在过去的二十年中，人们越来越关注社会工作领导技能对于临床实践的重要性。此外，当个人和社区面临大规模危机（如大流行病、自然灾害、战争和其他社会政治危机）时，社会工作者表现出至关重要的领导技能。目前，在危机时期，关于医疗保健和精神保健环境中有效实践的社会工作领导技能的文献尚不多见。为了弥合这一知识差距，本范围综述旨在综合和绘制危机期间医疗保健和精神保健中的社会工作领导能力的现有文献。阿克赛和奥马利的范围综述五阶段框架指导了这个项目。对六个学术数据库进行了搜索，共有九篇文章符合纳入标准。对这些文章进行了主题分析，以确定其中反复出现的主题。结果强调，领导既被定义为一种角色，也是一套技能，并且确定合作、联系和共同学习是社会工作者的关键领导能力。讨论了对社会工作实践、教育和研究的影响。
