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Social Workers’ Current Practice Of Screening For Brain Injury, Shawna Lyn Carey
Social Workers’ Current Practice Of Screening For Brain Injury, Shawna Lyn Carey
Master of Social Work Clinical Research Papers
The purpose of this study was to determine if and to what extent LICSWs are screening for brain injury during intake. Licensed social workers were invited to participate in an online Qualtrics survey. Questions in the survey gauged participants’ use of assessments for physical, cognitive and emotional categories of symptomatology identified in the literature. Thirteen LICSWs completed the survey for a response rate of 5.1 percent. All participants in this study work with at least one population at-risk for brain injuries, yet over half of the LICSW respondents indicated not having training in brain injury. Respondents who had training in …