1st Edition

Social Work in Health Emergencies Global Perspectives

Edited By Patricia Fronek, Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares Copyright 2021
390 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

390 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

390 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the first comprehensive book that provides accessible, international knowledge for practitioners, students and academics about social work in health emergencies and spans fields of practice across world regions with particular reference to the COVID-19 pandemic.   Divided into three sections: • Regional, Historical and Social Work Perspectives takes a journey through world... Read more

Chapter 1: Introducing social work in health emergencies

Patricia Fronek and Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares with Jonathan Dickens

Part I- Regional, historical and social work perspectives

Chapter 2: Regions of the world and the COVID-19 health emergency Patricia Fronek and Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares with Jianqiang Liang, Wanchai Roujanavong, Myung Hun Kim, Sungmin Kim, Yanuar Farida Wismayanti, Gokul Mandayam, Antonio López Peláez, Roberta Di Rosa, Jonathan Dickens, Nicoleta Neamțu, Mădălina Hideg, Claudia Fonseca, Carmen Monico, Renie Rondon-Jackson, Gidraph G.Wairire, Janestic Mwende Twikirize, Dorothee Hölscher, Corlie Giliomee, Taghreed Abu Sarhan, Nadia C. Badran, Tarek Zidan, Sareh Rotabi and Lynne Briggs

Chapter 3: Lessons from pandemic history

Matthew C. Ward

Chapter 4: Human dignity

Donna McAuliffe with Hilary N. Weaver, Sharon E. Moore and Robert Common

Part II– Social work practice, issues and responses

Chapter 5: Hospital social work during the second wave in Canada

Barbara Muskat, Shelley Craig, Deepy Sur and Alexa Kirkland

Chapter 6: Child protection and health emergencies in Botswana 

Thabile A. Samboma

Chapter 7: Family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic

Louise Harms, Eliza Crossley, Elyssa Hudson, Connie Kellet and Lauren Kosta

Chapter 8: Families and the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from the UK 

Gabriela Misca, Janet Walker and Gemma Thornton

Chapter 9: Disability and health emergencies

Tarek Zidan

Chapter 10: Ageism, older people and COVID-19

Malcolm Payne

Chapter 11: Impacts of global pandemics on people on the move

Justin S. Lee and Carmen Monico

Chapter 12: Mental health social work in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic 

Ching-Wen Chang and Marcus Chiu

Chapter 13: Urban homelessness: housing and health equity during health emergencies

Elizabeth Bowen and Nicole Capozziello

Chapter 14: The new social services: organising community during ecosocial health crises

Joel Izlar

Chapter 15: Challenges and innovations in field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States

Lynne Briggs, Jane Maidment, Kathryn Hay, Kai Medina-Martinez, Renie Rondon-Jackson and Patricia Fronek

Part III– Preparing for the future

Chapter 16: Social innovation as the need of the hour in health emergencies

Gokul Mandayam, Samuel Ochieng, Kelley Bunkers, Siân Long, Yoko Kobayashi and Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares

Chapter 17: Preparing for the next health emergency

Patricia Fronek and Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares

Chapter 18: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

Patricia Fronek and Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares

Part IV: Bonus Chapters

Chapter 19: SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife: Q &A with Alan B. Franklin

Chapter 20: COVID-19: Q &A with Peter C. Doherty

Biography

Patricia Fronek is an Associate Professor in social work, academic and researcher in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University, Australia. Currently, she is the Director of the Bachelor of Social Work Program, a member of Griffith University’s Law Futures Research Centre, and is Special Advisor to Child Identity Protection (CHIP). Social justice, human rights, ethics and professional practice are core to her practice and research over the last forty years. Her work is widely published and highly regarded.

Karen Smith Rotabi-Casares is a Professor in social work with a background in child protection and family support. Her work is international and she has been engaged in child rights and health promotion projects in a number of countries, to include Belize, Guatemala, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Malawi, the United Arab Emirates and Somalia. Focused on child rights, Rotabi-Casares is most interested in prevention with an orientation to the development of programs that engage the community and human service organizations in social change.