1st Edition

Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

Overcome the challenges facing social workers today with international guidance Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe is a valuable stepping stone toward an understanding of the diversity of methods utilized in social work for community health services. This work stems from material gathered at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and... Read more
  • Introduction (Anneli Pohjola, Anna Metteri, Teppo Kröger, and Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala)
  • SOCIAL WORK EXPERTISE IN HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH
  • Individualization and Prevention: Richard C. Cabot and Early Medical Social Work (Paul H. Stuart)
  • Doing It Well: An Empirical Study of Expertise in Mental Health Social Work (Martin Ryan, Bill Healy, and Noel Renouf)
  • CROSSING BORDERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS AND DIMENSIONS
  • Boundary Spanning: An Ecological Reinterpretation of Social Work Practice in Health and Mental Health Systems (Toba Schwaber Kerson)
  • Social Work Field Education as Social Development: A Lithuanian Case Study (Kathleen Tunney and Regina Kulys)
  • Outcomes Measurement: A Social Work Framework for Health and Mental Health Policy and Practice (Edward J. Mullen)
  • COMMUNITY AS A SOCIAL WORK ORIENTATION
  • Community Based Rural Health Care in India: Potential for Social Work Contribution (Sukla Deb Kanango)
  • Tackling Problem Drug Use: A New Conceptual Framework (Julian Buchanan)
  • Community Care in Taiwan: Mere Talk, No Policy (Yueh-Ching Chou and Teppo Kröger)
  • The Efficacy of Involuntary Treatment in the Community: Consumer and Service Provider Perspectives (Lisa Brophy and David Ring)
  • HIV/AIDS and Home Based Care in Botswana: Panacea or Perfidy? (Gloria Jacques and Christine Stegling)
  • FROM DUAL DIVISIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS: CONSTRUCTING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH
  • Mental Health Practice and Children: Dogma, Discourse, Debate, and Practice (Barbara Fawcett)
  • Social Exclusion and Psychosis: Exploring Some of the Links and Possible Implications for Practice (Helen Barnes)
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Anna Metteri, Teppo Kroger, Anneli Pohjola, Pirkko-Lisa Rauhala