Title : Social Work Informatics : A new Specialty
Author : Debra Parker-Oliver and George demiris
Publisher : National Association of social Workers 2006
Publication : Volume 51, Number 2 April 2006
Introduction
On this opportunity, I’ll be reviewing an article by Debra Parker-Oliver and George demiris, the title of this article is “ Social Work Informatics : A new Specialty”, was published by National Association of social Workers 2006, this article: Introduction, Discussion, and conclusion.
Summary
This article Discuss about a Social work informatics : A new specialty. This project are collaborate by The National Association of Social Work (NASW) and the Association of social work boards (ASWB) in an intiative the recognizes the invaluable role of technology in social work practice and education. Based on human service professions have successfully recognized the value of informatics expecially in bioinformatics a multidisciplinary field consisting of biology,etc. and this term has not been defined, although it has been used in the literature. Them purpose to define social work informatics similary to NI as a combination of computer science, informatics science and socal work desained to assist in the management and processing of Data. The trained challenges are evident in the literature of both informatics and social work. In contemporary society. And one of the central clinical issues for social work practice involves the ability to assess visual nonverbal behavior.
This social workers are trained to observe clients’ non verbal clues as they interact, using these behavior as an important component in overall assessment. Such an approach can lead to an improvement or redesign of the tool based on the feedback provided by social workers and their clients. In accordance with the initiative by the ANA to develop a list of informatics competencies expected of beginning nurse, it could be argued that similar competencies should be defined for social workers
Evaluation
The Author’s emphasize in this article is about Social Work Informatics : A new Specialty, make a technology is more valuable to using in the positive work especially to increase the performance of work.