Natural language processing can be used for automated extraction of social work interventions from electronic health records, thereby supporting social work staffing and resource allocation decisions.

Social work intervention can help hospitals lower readmissions by more than half, according to a two-year study of 100 patients at high risk of readmission. Researchers from Binghamton University's ...

Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...

The Social Work Reform Board has set out what is expected of social workers. In the latest instalment in our series, Daniel Lombard looks at how one practitioner decided to improve her intervention ...

This book examines assessment and intervention, with an emphasis on the relationship between the two. It explains the knowledge and skills base and considers the dilemmas and challenges. Examples ...

In Minnesota, greater than one in four adults reports symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorders. At the same time, public confidence in the police has reached a record low of 43%. These two ...

BC School of Social Work initiative will address the mental health and well-being of millions affected by violence and upheaval in Colombia and neighboring Venezuela A Boston College School of Social ...