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SOCIAL WORKER TOOLBOX: CASEWORK ACTIVITY LOGSHEET

 

The SOCIAL WORKER TOOLBOX was created in the spirit of knowledge sharing in the social work profession. Far too often we have been limited through copyright laws with regards to using forms, templates and scales that are useful to clinical practice. The TOOLBOX is a platform for social workers to share such tools in the community for free.

 

In this post, Udhia Kumar shares the casework activity logsheet, with explanation on how to use the template.

 

The form can be downloaded below

  Download Casework Log 170210

 

 

Guidelines of use for Casework Activity Logsheet 

Form Purpose

• To capture casework related activities enacted for case 
• Casework Activity can be any activity done with respect to the case which includes, case recordings, calls made, research done for case, reading time spent for case etc.  
• For monitoring purposes for PES and other agency accountability systems

 

How to Use Form

• To log in all activities as they occur starting from date, type of activity, time spent on activity and brief notes for activity.
• For some activities if case notes are not required, the remarks space can be used to capture the information. This will save time for the staff in not needing to write a complete case note which may not be needed. 
  
• For each month, the type of activity and time spent can be easily calculated using the column Total for Month

 

Created By

Udhia Kumar

Are Good Intentions enough for the Helping Professional?

By Nicholas Netto

 

“Are Good Intentions Enough?”

    That was the question Sir Iain Chalmers posed to the audience at the recent Wolfson Haldane lecture he spoke at. Sir Chalmers is a doctor by training but is better known as a champion and advocate for the evidence-based movement in the United Kingdom. At an award ceremony in 2009, Chalmers was paid a great compliment when he was credited with having “saved more people’s lives than anyone else [one] can think of”(HealthWatch, 2010).

    During the lecture, he spoke candidly about his experience working as a medical officer in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, where with the best of intentions, he had not prescribed antibiotic prophylaxis to Palestinian children with measles as he had been advised against it during medical school. Unknown to him then was that there was sufficient evidence to suggest its effectiveness in alleviating the suffering and possibly saving the lives of those with measles. This experience had a profound impact on him professionally and ignited his “insistence that therapeutic claims should be informed by reliable research evidence” (BMJ, 2005).  

SASW NEWS: CURRENT UPDATES TO SOCIAL DIMENSION

 

 

Dear Valued Readers,

Thank you for your kind patience thus far, and we apologize that we have not been posting articles regularly on our blog this year. We have been in a process of collating articles from the Social Service Community and have also interviewed a number of key social work professionals to gain further insights into their views of the social work profession.

For the coming weeks, SOCIAL DIMENSION ONLINE start to churn out regular articles. We would also need your support to submit your articles (Be it commentaries, research, or creative literature) for publication.

Also, look out for our new segment: the SOCIAL WORKER TOOLBOX! Social workers and helping professionals will be sharing forms and templates they have found useful in clinical work. Information shared is copyright free (unless otherwise stated). The aim of this endeavour is to set up a platform where social workers can share useful ways of working with their clients in various settings.

We are also looking for interested volunteers to be part of our editorial team. Tasks would include writing reports on social work related events, commentaries of social policies, interviews with professionals and key stakeholders in social service, and to source out articles from the social service community (social workers, helping professionals, social work students, etc).

Feel free to submit your articles or indicate your interest to volunteer to me at [email protected]. We look forward to your continuing support.

 

Yours Sincerely,

Mohamed Fareez

Chair, Publications,

Singapore Association of Social Workers