4th Edition
Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context
Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice in Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in health care settings. The PIC framework is used to cover a broad range of social work practice sites, settings and populations over 30 case chapters.
Fully updated to reflect the landscape of health care provision in the US since the Affordable Care Act was passed, the cases are grounded by ‘primer’ chapters to illustrate the necessary decisional and foundational skills for best practices in social work in health settings. The cases cover working with both individuals and groups of clients across the life course and the PiC framework helps maintain focus on each of the practice decisions a social worker must make when working with a variety of clients from military veterans to HIV positive children.
The ideal textbook for social work in health care and clinical social work classes, this thought-provoking volume thoroughly integrates social work theory and practice, and provides an excellent opportunity for understanding particular techniques and interventions.
1. Practice in Context: The Framework Part 1: Individual and Family Work in Health Settings 2. Primer on Micro Practice in Social Work in Health Care: Context, Skills, Interventions and Best Practices 1.1: Maternal and Child Health Settings 3. Barriers for Mentally Ill Mother's Adoption Plan 4. Fetal Surgery 5. Getting There: Decision Making in the NICU 1.2: Children and Youth 6. Working with Families with HIV-positive Children 7. Social Work in a Pediatric Hospital: Managing a Medically Complex Patient 8. Assistive Technology and Developmental Disability: Helping Gina Find Her Voice 9. Genetic Testing Following a Pediatric Cancer Diagnosis: A Role for Direct Practice Social Workers in Helping Families with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome 10. Family Focused Care of an Adolescent with a Burn: A Multidisciplinary Approach 11. The Young Women's Program: A Health and Wellness Model to Empower Adolescents with Physical Disabilities in a Hospital Based Setting 1.3: Adults 12. The Social Worker on the Genetic Counseling Team: A New Role in Social Work Oncology 13. Woman to Woman: A Hospital-based Support Program for Women with Gynecologic Cancer and Their Families 14. Liver Transplant 2015 15. The Role of the Social Worker in Transgender Healthcare 16. Returning Veterans, Constrictive Bronchiolitis, and Veterans' Administration Services: A War Related Illness and Injury Study Center 17. Work with Undocumented Immigrants: When Serious Illness Intersects with No Insurance 18. An Integrated Healthcare Approach to Promote Smoking Cessation for Persons with Serious Mental Illness 1.4: Aging 19. In-home Support for Junior: A Study of Collaboration, Boundaries, and Use of Self 20. Geriatric Social Work in a Community Hospital: High Touch, Low Tech Work in a High Tech, Low Touch Environment 21. A Framework for Working with People with Early-stage Dementia: A Relationship-focused Approach to Counseling 22. The Future of End-of-life Care: As Palliative Care Gains Momentum, What is the Future of Hospice Care Part 2: Social Work and Public Health 23. Public Health Social Work Primer 2.1: Work with Special Health Populations 24. Social Work Practice in an Adolescent Parenting Program 25. Screening for Perinatal Depression in an Inner City Prenatal Setting 26. Social Work in the Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Setting: Fighting the New Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes in Children 27. Managing Asthma from a Social Work Perspective in a Center for Children with Special Health Needs 28. Camp Achieve: A Week Long Overnight Camp for Children and Teens with Epilepsy 29. Following Her Lead: A Measured Approach to Working with Homeless Adults 30. Pediatric Public Health: Educating Professionals and Communities about Children's Health and Environmental Exposures Bambi Fisher 2.2: Internationally-related Public Health 31. Community-based Health and Social Services for Bhutanese Refugees 32. Research for Health Efforts in the West Bank, Palestine 2.3: Summary 33. Conclusions
Biography
Judith L. M. McCoyd, Ph.D., Q.C.S.W., L.C.S.W. is Associate Professor of Social Work at Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, USA, with a focus on clinical practice, loss and grief, and interprofessional education.
Toba Schwaber Kerson, D.S.W., Ph.D. is Mary Hale Chase Professor Emeritus in Social Science at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and a Fulbright Specialist.
The new edition of this classic text offers the most comprehensive and insightful analysis of social work practice in health care found in any textbook. The cases are new and discuss cutting-edge issues including transgender health, genetic testing and counseling, immigrant health, and international public health. Of particular value are the discussions of each case that identify new learning and that model reflective practice skills. Because it presents contemporary issues influencing the context for, and the process of, social work decision-making in the accessible form of case studies, Social Work in Health Settings is strongly recommended as a textbook for students as well as advanced practitioners.
Goldie Kadushin, Professor Emerita, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
The 4th edition of McCoyd and Kerson’s Social Work in Health Settings makes a strong case for its impact and utility for social workers in health care. This well-written and consistently edited book allows each contributor to speak in her own voice. The range of settings and social work roles presented expands our understanding of social work in health care while the casebook format helps the reader to see reflective social workers in action. Social work educators will also find the book useful for teaching generalist social work practice.
Julie S. Abramson, Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
