3rd Edition
Social Work Practice in Health An Introduction to Contexts, Theories and Skills
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List of contributors
Preface
PART I: WHAT IS HEALTH SOCIAL WORK? ROLE, VALUES AND PRINCIPLES FOR PRACTICE
Chapter One: An introduction to health services practice and the social determinants of health
Melissa Petrakis and Carrie Lethborg
Chapter Two: A Social Justice Perspective on the Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Dimensions of Health
Lynelle Watts and David Hodgson
Chapter Three: Neoliberal capitalism and its impact on individual and community health: Implications for critical social workers
Niki Edwards and Julie King
Chapter Four: Compassion in healthcare
Debbie Ling
Chapter Five: Promoting and delivering a human rights approach: working in interdisciplinary emergency and crisis mental health settings
Jacinta Chavulak and Terry Smyth
Chapter Six: Shared Learning and Healing-Informed Practice: Social Work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Health
Melinda Collins, Prue Shanahan, Nicole Watt and Carrie Lethborg
PART II: HEALTH PRACTICE AND PRACTICE CONTEXTS
Chapter Seven: Trauma Informed Practice
Margaret (Margi) Cowgill and Maddie Cook
Chapter Eight: Mental Health Social Work: Recovery-oriented Practice Engagement and Collaboration
Jacinta Chavulak, Kate Day and Melissa Petrakis
Chapter Nine: The Postpartum Period: Psychosocial Insights from Social Work and Doula-Informed Care
Sarah White
Chapter Ten: Aged Care: Health, Assessments, In-Home Care and Residential Care
Lisa Braddy, Mara Erhardt-Rumpe and Penny Lording
Chapter Eleven: Engaging people with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues: practice principles and tools
Simon Kroes and Kevan Myers
Chapter Twelve: Social Work Practice and People Living with Disability
Niki Edwards and Julie King
PART III: REFORM AGENDAS
Chapter Thirteen: Suicidal Distress and Social Work: Social Justice Practice Beyond a Risk Paradigm
Emma Tseris and Charlotte Finlayson
Chapter Fourteen: Working Inclusively with Families in Mental Health – A Relational Recovery Approach
Caroline Walters
Chapter Fifteen: Bringing Whānau Ora to Health Social Work
Amohia Boulton, Lynley Cvitanovic and Tracey Cropp
Chapter Sixteen: Social Work in Health: Considerations for Refugee Health
Kim Robinson
Chapter Seventeen: Health social work in regional, rural, and remote settings: Responding to context
Ros Darracott, Niki Edwards, and Julie King
Index
Biography
Melissa Petrakis is an associate professor in social work at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and director of SWITCH Research Group. She is a senior research fellow with St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne’s Mental Health Service and has over 30 years’ experience in public health and mental health service provision, management and research.
