Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 50 Professionals Tell "Real Life" Stories from the Social Work Practice

by GROBMAN LINDA MAY

• ISBN13: 9780965365307
• ISBN10: 0965365301
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: White Hat Communications

Table of Contents

About the Editor/Contributors	xi
Introduction	xix
Acknowledgments	xxi
PART 1---HEALTH CARE
Social Work in the ER	1	(10)
Managing a Hospital Social Work Department	11	(8)
Social Work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit	19	(8)
Social Work in an Infertility Clinic	27	(6)
Working with Pregnant Women in Public Health	33	(4)
Managing in Managed Care	37	(6)
PART 2---HIV/AIDS
Private Practice With Urban Gay Men: With a Sub-specialty in HIV/AIDS	43	(8)
A Very Special Nursing Home in the South Bronx	51	(8)
Pediatric HIV Research	59	(6)
PART 3---SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK
Elementary School Social Work	65	(6)
An Inner-City High School	71	(6)
Social Work in a Rural School District	77	(6)
PART 4---CHILDREN YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
Urban Child Protective Services	83	(4)
Neighborhood Youth Center	87	(10)
Working with Gay and Lesbian Youth	97	(8)
Child Welfare Ombudsman	105	(6)
Family Advocacy in the Military	111	(6)
Employee Assistance Programs	117	(6)
PART 5---DISABILITIES
Developmental Disabilities	123	(8)
``Us'' Becoming ``Them''	131	(6)
PART 6---MENTAL HEALTH
Involuntary Admission: A New Worker's Introduction to the ``603''	137	(8)
Partial Hospitalization	145	(8)
Social Work in a Clubhouse	153	(6)
Life as a Group Home Manager	159	(6)
Disaster Mental Health Services	165	(6)
PART 7---SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse and Mental Health in an Inpatient Setting	171	(6)
Social Work in the Alaskan Bush	177	(4)
Adventure-Based Practice	181	(6)
PART 8---PRIVATE PRACTICE
Private Practice and the Eclectic Social Worker	187	(6)
An Office to Call My Own: Private Practice in the Lesbian Community	193	(4)
PART 9---CRIMINAL JUSTICE: WORKING WITH OFFENDERS AND VICTIMS
Prison Substance Abuse Treatment	197	(8)
A Hard Day's Night: Working with Assaultive Men in Prison	205	(6)
Residential Treatment for Adolescent Sexual Offenders	211	(6)
Forensic Social Work: Mitigating Death Penalty Cases in a Capital Defense Unit	217	(6)
Victim Services	223	(6)
PART 10---OLDER ADULTS AND THE END OF LIFE
Nursing Home Social Work	229	(6)
Senior Adult Coordinator	235	(4)
Hospice Social Work	239	(8)
Home Health Social Work	247	(6)
PART 11---MANAGEMENT
Life as an Agency CEO	253	(6)
Association Management	259	(6)
PART 12---HIGHER EDUCATION
Life as a BSW Educator	265	(8)
University Counseling Center	273	(8)
PART 13---INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK
Consulting in Armenia	281	(8)
Working with Raskal Gangs in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea	289	(6)
PART 14---WORKING IN COMMUNITIES
Community Organizing for Social Change	295	(6)
It Takes a Village: Reclaiming our Youth Through Community Partnerships	301	(6)
A Day in the Life of a Policy Practitioner	307	(4)
Homeless Community Outreach	311	(8)
Mucho Gusto a Conocerle: Working with Migrant Farm Families	319	(6)
Appendix A: Organizations of Interest to Social Workers	325	(8)
Appendix B: Additional Reading	333	(14)
Appendix C: Internet Resources	347