1st Edition

Social Work Practice for Promoting Health and Wellbeing Critical Issues

Edited By Liz Beddoe, Jane Maidment Copyright 2014
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Promoting health and wellbeing is an essential part of all effective social work – not just for practice in healthcare settings. In fact, the IFSW holds that ‘social workers in all settings are engaged in health work’ and physical and mental resilience can make a major difference to all service users’ lives. Drawing on international literature and research, the authors collected here encourage... Read more

1. Social Work Practice for Promoting Health and Wellbeing  Liz Beddoe and Jane Maidment  Part 1: Current Themes and Critical Issues in Health and Well-Being  2. Exploring Interpretations of Health and Wellbeing for Social Work  Jane Maidment  3. Globalisation, Social Work and Health  Paul Bywaters  4. Facing the Challenges Together - a Future Vision for Health Social Work  Linda Haultain  5. Risk and Vulnerability Discourses in Contemporary Health Care  Liz Beddoe  6. Stress, Resilience and Responding to Civil Defence Emergencies and Natural Disasters: an Ecological Approach  Carole Adamson  7. Stigma in Health and Social Work: Towards a New Paradigm  Viviene Cree  8. The Natural Environment and Well-Being  Uschi Bay  Part 2: Diverse Communities: Culture, Identity, Spirituality and Health  9. Indigenous Australian Social-Health Theory: Decolonisation, Healing—Reclaiming Wellbeing  Lorraine Muller  10. Whai Ora – Maori Health  Jim Anglem  11. Pacific Health  Yvonne Crichton-Hill, Tanya McCall and Genevieve Togiaso  12. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual People and Discourses of Health and Wellbeing  Joy Phillips  13. Disability-Inclusive Social Work Practice  Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic  Part 3: Messages from Research  14. Collaborative Practice and Family Meetings in Children’s Health  Andrew Thompson and Carole Adamson  15. Improving Public Spaces for Young People: The Contribution of Participatory Research  Phil Crane  16. Ageing in Resiliency: Learning from the Experiences and Perceptions of Migrant Older Adults  Hong Jae Park  17. Refugee Resettlement: Considerations of Health and Wellbeing  Jay Marlowe  18. Mental Health, Social Work and Professionalism  Selma Macfarlane  19. Partnering in the Field of Chronic Care Service Provision  Christa Fouché  20. Crafting Social Connectedness: A Community Development Model  Jane Maidment, Uschi Bay and Michelle Courtenay  21. Pregnancy in an Age of Medical Technology: Decisions, Loss, and Research with a Vulnerable Population  Judith McCoyd

Biography

Liz Beddoe is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her teaching and research interests include critical perspectives on social work education, professional supervision, the professionalization project of social work, interprofessional learning and media framing of social problems.

Jane Maidment is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Services and Social Work at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has been a practitioner in the health sector and has researched and written extensively in the areas of field education, aged care and craft as a vehicle for social connectedness. Jane currently co-ordinates field education and teaches practice skills, field integration, and theory for practice.