Medical Social Work Books

New and Published Books

1. Health Care and Immigration

   Understanding the Connections

   Edited by Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Alejandro Portes

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform. This volume sets out to answer the question: how do medical institutions...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Addiction and Recovery in the UK

   Edited by Jeffrey Roth, David Best

   Addiction and Recovery in the UK captures the essence of the emerging addictions recovery movement and in particular the emerging evidence base that had been gathered around the umbrella of the Recovery Academy UK. The Recovery Academy was established with the aim of creating a forum for people in...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Researching Trust and Health

   Edited by Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene, Alexandra Howson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   There is currently a lively debate ongoing in society about the nature of trust and the conditions necessary to establish and sustain it. Given the role of trust in bridging uncertainty, it is perhaps not surprising that as our consciousness of risk has increased, the role and nature of trust in...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Partners in Palliative Care

   Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

   Edited by Mary Beth Morrissey, Bruce Jennings

   The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Human Services in the Network Society

   Edited by Neil Ballantyne, Walter La Mendola

   The Internet and the many applications it supports continue to transform and expand the ways in which it is possible to relate, communicate, collaborate, and perform human service work. In this book, human service researchers and practitioners explore major opportunities and challenges to well...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Forensic Mental Health Consulting in Family Law

   Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

   Edited by Robert L. Kaufman, Margaret Lee

   Forensic Mental Health Professionals have entered the fray of child custody litigation in ways that could not have been predicted even a decade ago. Traditionally engaged as neutral court appointed evaluators or mediators, or as treatment providers for children, parents or families, FMHPs are...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
7. Controversies and Disputes in Disability and Rehabilitation

   Edited by Roland Meinert, Francis Yuen

   Although the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades there remain controversial subjects and unresolved disputes. These cover a wide spectrum from legislation impacting the entire disability community such as the ADA, to culture...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner

   An Essential Guide to Theory and Practice

   By Joyce Scaife

   Development as a reflective practitioner has become an essential quality for practitioners in the fields of health, education and social care. Supervising the Reflective Practitioner provides guidance for supervisors, focusing on what they can do to facilitate the development of reflective practice...

   Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Social Work in Health Settings

   Practice in Context, 3rd Edition

   By Toba Schwaber Kerson, Judith L.M. McCoyd, Associates

   The most comprehensive book of its kind, Social Work in Health Settings presents a "practice in context" framework which is then applied in thirty-one casebook chapters, covering a great variety of health care settings from working with survivors of domestic violence through supporting people with...

   Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge
10. Evidence-based Interventions for Social Work in Health Care

    By Marcia Egan

    Social work practice in health care requires that practitioners be prepared to meet the interdisciplinary and managed care demands for best practices in efficacious, time-limited, and culturally competent interventions, with populations across the lifespan. This text is designed to meet that demand...

    Published November 17th 2009 by Routledge