Social Work in Health Care: A Handbook for Practice

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Here is an outstanding reference book of major readings in the field of social work in health care. Practitioners, educators, researchers, and students can use this landmark two-part volume to review dominant themes and critical issues in today’s practice environment and to understand the evolution of current trends and emerging policies and programs. In this one desktop source book, hundreds of... Read more

Here is an outstanding reference book of major readings in the field of social work in health care. Practitioners, educators, researchers, and students can use this landmark two-part volume to review dominant themes and critical issues in today’s practice environment and to understand the evolution of current trends and emerging policies and programs.

In this one desktop source book, hundreds of references relevant to the health care social work field are immediately accessible. Education, policy, practice, and research issues integral to social work’s expanding role in health care are the main focus, with each chapter highlighting a theme of enduring importance to the field. Other outstanding articles related to the chapter’s theme are cited in the appendix to each chapter which also includes a selected bibliography of suggested topical readings. Comprehensive new book filled with information vital to social workers in the health care field!

Over 900 pages of scholarly articles by the foremost social work leaders in health care!
9 categories embrace the range of social work activity in the health care field!
Exciting new ideas and practical suggestions for everyday dilemmas!
Hundreds of references immediately accessible in one desktop source!
Selected bibliography of topical headings provides sources for even more relevant articles!
A MUST HAVE volume for instructors and students!

Deepen your understanding of all aspects of social work practice in health care with this superb volume! Here is an outstanding reference book of major readings in the field of social work in health care. Practitioners, educators, researchers, and students can use this landmark two-part volume to review dominant themes and critical issues in today’s practice environment and to understand the evolution of current trends and emerging policies and programs. Social Work in Health Care makes hundreds of references relevant to the health care social work field immediately accessible in this one desktop source book. Education, policy, practice, and research issues integral to social work’s expanding role in health care are the main focus, with each chapter highlighting a theme of enduring importance to the field. Other outstanding articles related to the chapter’s theme are cited in the appendix to each chapter which also includes a selected bibliography of suggested topical readings.

Find answers and ideas for everyday dilemmas in this all-inclusive, information-packed volume!

Social workers practicing in the rapidly expanding health care field call upon a repertoire of skills to fulfill a variety of functions including direct patient care and contact with patients’families, education, and influencing organizational policies on their clients’behalf. The in-depth scholarship and the diversity of multiple approaches to health care social work, as presented in Social Work in Health Care, will have a strong impact on the field. Through the intertwining network of education, policy, practice, and research issues in the book, and professsional discussion of those topics, a beginning point exists from which social workers can develop principles to guide their social work activities in the medical and health fields.

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Part 1: Health Care Social Work: History and Contemporary Issues
Introduction
Social Work in Health Settings: A Historical Review
The Role of Social Workers in Medical Education: A Historical Perspective
Hyman J. Weiner’s Use of Systems and Population Approaches: Their Relevance to Social Work Practice in Health Care Today
An Ecological Perspective on Social Work Practice in Health Care
Social Work in Health Settings
Commentary
Additional Readings
Part 2: Working With Patients and Families
Introduction
Psychosocial Responses to Traumatic Physical Disability
The Impact of Severe Illness on the Individual and Family: An Overview
The Social Nature of Chronic Disease and Disability
Families, Transitions, and Health: Another Look
Social Work in Home Dialysis: Responding to Trends in Health Care
The Anatomy of Discharge Planning
Evolving Social Work Roles in Health Care: The Case of Discharge Planning
Commentary
Additional Readings
Part 3: Research and Evaluation
Introduction
Social Work Services as a Component of Palliative Care With Terminal Cancer Patients
Family Coping With the Crisis of Heart Attack
Evaluation of Social Work Practice in Health Care Settings
Commentary
Additional Readings
Part 4: Working With Colleagues
Introduction
The Interprofessional Team as a Small Group
A Multimodel Approach to Collaborative Practice in Health Settings
Diagnosing the Hospital Team
The Impact of Illness on Patients and Families: Social Workers Teach Medical Students
A Gerontology Internship Program for Medical Students
Commentary
Additional Readings
Part 5: Developing Programs and Delivering Services
Introduction
A Systems Approach to the Provision of Social Work Services in Health Settings
A Preventive Program for Bereaved Families
The Short-Term Treatment of Depression of Physically Ill Hospital Patients
Terminal Cancer: A Challenge for Social Work
The Case of Ann: A Sleep Disturbance in a 3-Year-Old Child
Family Treatment in the Health Setting: The Need for Innovation
Social Work Groups in Health Settings: Promises and Problems
The Legacy of the Group: A Study of Group Therapy With a Transient Membership
Rehabilitation After Mastectomy: The Group Process
Commentary
Additional Readings
Part 6: Professional Authority, Autonomy, and Accountability
Introduction
A Social Work Department Develops and Tests a Screening Mechanism to Identify High Social Risk Situations
The Impact of Early and Comprehensive Social Work Services on Length of Stay
Myocardial Infarction Patients in the Acute Care Hospital: A Conceptual Framework for Social Work Intervention
Medical Handmaidens or Professional Colleagues: A Survey of Social Work Practice in the Pediatrics Departments of Twenty-Eight Teaching Hospitals
Initiation of a Quality Assurance Program for Social Work Practice in a Teaching Hospital
Clinical Social Work With Young Adult Inpatients: Perspectives of Patients, Parents, and Clinicians
Predicting Patterns of Social Work Staffing in Hospital Settings
A Survey of Patient and Family Satisfaction With Social Work Services
Commentary
Additional Readings
Part 7: Special Populations and Contexts
Introduction
Social Work and Alzheimer’s Disease: Psychosocial Management in the Absence of Medical Cure
Social Work and AIDS
Developing Responsiveness to the Health Needs of Hispanic Children and Families
Factors Affecting Coping of Adolescents and Infants on a Reverse Isolation Unit
Trauma Centers: A New Dimension for Hospital Social Work
The Intensive Care Unit: Social Work Intervention With the Families of Critically Ill Patients
Social Work and Primary Health Care: An Integrative Approach
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Social Work in Health Care A Handbook for Practice

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