1st Edition
Psychosocial Impact of Lupus Social Work's Role and Function
Preface: Psychosocial Impact of Lupus: Social Work’s Role and Function N. L. Beckerman and Charles Auerbach 1. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: An Overview Anca Askanase, Katrina Shum and Hal Mitnick 2. SLE: Serving the Underserved in an Academic Medical Center Irene Blanco 3. Lupus: An Integrative Medicine Approach to Assessment and Treatment of an Autoimmune Disorder Rosemarie Cartagine 4. Listening to Lupus Patients and Families: Fine Tuning the Assessment N. L. Beckerman and Michele Sarracco 5. Locus of Control and Lupus: Patients’ Beliefs, Perspectives, and Disease Activity Charles Auerbach and N. L. Beckerman 6. Lupus and Community-Based Social Work Wendy Schudrich, Diane Gross and Jessica Rowshandel 7. Patients With Lupus: An Overview of Culturally Competent Practice Carmen Ortiz Hendricks 8. Research Studies and Their Implications for Social Work Practice in a Multidisciplinary Center for Lupus Care Su Jin Kim, Pretima Persad, Doruk Erkan, Kyriakos Kirou, Roberta Horton and Jane E. Salmon
Biography
N. L. Beckerman, LCSW, DSW is a Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University in New York, USA. She has published widely in the areas of HIV/AIDS, psychosocial impact of illness in health care, diagnosis and treatment of PTSD, and family and couple therapy. She is the author of Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical issues and interventions (2005).
Charles Auerbach, MSW, PhD is a Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University in New York, USA, and Visiting Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA. He has published widely in the areas of child welfare and social work in health care.
