Social Work in Health Settings

by Kerson, Toba Schwaber

• ISBN13: 9780789060181
• ISBN10: 0789060183
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Widely used in social work and health care education courses, Social Work in Health Settingsis the most comprehensive text of its kind. It introduces social work students to a range of clients and provides an overview of many social work settings and services in the health arena. If you're a practitioner, you'll find the book useful for examining and evaluating your practice. This second edition features 18 new chapters and chapter subjects and rewritten and updated versions of the 14 chapters which were part of the first edition. As a casebook, Social Work in Health Settingsprovides you with an excellent opportunity for understanding particular techniques and interventions. You'll find examples from expert practitioners in a variety of health settings and a thorough integration of social work theory and practice that eliminates the need to assign other supplements for undergraduate/graduate sequences in health care. The book will also help you promote discussions of issues that arise when working in particular settings and with certain populations. Social Work in Health Settings presents a framework called #xE2;#xAC;Spractice in context,#xE2;#xAC; developed as a tool for teaching and evaluation, that addresses the three dimensions of context thought to have the most direct consequences for the relationship between social worker and client--policy, technology, and organization. The framework is applied to 32 settings (ten more than the first edition!) drawn from services to children and/or families; acute and high-technology care; rehabilitation, long-term intervention and advocacy; mental health care; and care for the frail elderly and hospice care. Social Work in Health Settingsenables you, as a social work professional, to understand the context in which your work with clients occurs, in order to interpret and influence the important dimensions of your client contact. This thought-provoking volume will also encourage educators and students to understand the decisions that affect the helping relationship so that the needs of clients can be evaluated and met properly. In this era of managed care, downsizing, and cost-cutting, the approach in Social Work in Health Settingsproves more salient than ever before.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	x	(1)
Contributors	xi	(4)
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(14)
Practice in Context: The Framework	15	(38)
Toba Schwaber Kerson
PART I: SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND/OR FAMILIES	53	(174)
Chapter 1. Premature Babies in the Intensive Care Nursery	53	(16)
Janet L. Taksa
Chapter 2. Social Work in a Perinatal AIDS Program	69	(20)
Virginia Walther
Judy Mason
Joyce Preisinger
Chapter 3. Social Work Interventions on Behalf of a Burned Child: Children's Hospital Emergency Room	89	(22)
Robin S. Johnson
Nancy Nelson
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 4. Social Work Practice in Early Intervention: Child Service Coordination in a Rural Health Department	111	(20)
Kathleen Rounds
Irene Nathan Zipper
Tina Powell Green
Chapter 5. School-Based Health Centers: A Multisystem Approach to the Delivery of Primary Health Care	131	(18)
Mary Ellen Hass
Debra Katz
Mary Ann Shanahan
Chapter 6. Epilepsy in Childhood: Pediatric Neurology Clinic	149	(16)
Carol Appolone Ford
Chapter 7. Family-Centered Care: Life Span Issues in a Spina Bifida Specialty Care Program	165	(24)
Wendy Schmid
Chapter 8. Family House/Womanspace: A Residential Treatment Program for Women and Their Children	189	(18)
Randee Morose Gallo
Chapter 9. Residential Care Facility: Treatment of a Child with Severe Disabilities	207	(20)
Mary O'Neill
PART II: ACUTE AND HIGH-TECHNOLOGY CARE	227	(108)
Chapter 10. Discharge Planning in a Community Hospital: A Patient Whose Symptoms the System Could Not Manage	227	(16)
Danielle L. Hammer
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 11. Psychological Recovery from Burn Injury: Regional Burn Center	243	(26)
Betsy C. Blades
Chapter 12. Confronting a Life-Threatening Disease: Renal Dialysis and Transplant Programs	269	(22)
Margo Regan Bare
Chapter 13. Beyond Survival by Machine: Reflections of a Spouse	291	(16)
Elisabeth Doolan
Chapter 14. Adult Oncology: Helping a Terminally Ill Woman to Plan and Cope	307	(28)
Lesley Sharp Haushalter
PART III: REHABILITATION, LONG-TERM INTERVENTION, AND ADVOCACY	335	(92)
Chapter 15. Family Therapy with a Chronic Pain Patient: Rehabilitation Hospital	335	(18)
Genevieve S. Coyle
Chapter 16. Rehabilitation of a Quadriplegic Adolescent: Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center	353	(22)
Judith F. Hirschwald
Chapter 17. Mutual Help Group for Emphysema Patients: Veterans Administration Medical Center	375	(16)
Zelda Foster
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 18. Advocacy and Social Action Among Navajo Uranium Workers and Their Families	391	(18)
Susan E. Dawson
Perry H. Charley
Phillip Harrison Jr.
Chapter 19. A Community-Based Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic	409	(18)
George S. Getzel
PART IV: MENTAL HEALTH CARE	427	(170)
Chapter 20. Brief Treatment: Community Mental Health	427	(18)
Maria DeOca Corwin
Elizabeth Read
Chapter 21. "Would You Abandon Your Child?" An Inpatient Psychiatric Staff Confront Change, a Difficult Case-and Each Other	445	(18)
Sherri Alper
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 22. Placement of a Developmentally Disabled Man	463	(18)
Susan B. Freeman
Beth Wrightson
Chapter 23. A Transitional Residence for the Mentally Ill: To Achieve Independent Living	481	(24)
Carey Donovan
Edward Blanchard
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 24. Intensive Case Management for People with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness	505	(18)
Carolyn S. Weiss
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 25. He's Schizophrenic and the System Is Not Helping: Reflections of a Troubled Parent and Professional	523	(16)
Mona Wasow
Chapter 26. Children's Intensive Case Management in an Urban Community Mental Health Center	539	(22)
Diane Frankel
Lyne Iris Harmon
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 27. Mental Health Care in a Combat Environment: The Application of Small Unit Stress Debriefings	561	(20)
James A. Martin
Chapter 28. A Woman Addresses Her Recurrent Depression in Psychotherapy: Private Practice	581	(16)
Carol Silbergeld
Toba Schwaber Kerson
PART V: Care for the Frail Elderly and Hospice Care	597	(88)
Chapter 29. Hospital-Based Case Management for the Frail Elderly	597	(22)
Renee Weisman Michelsen
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 30. Home Care	619	(16)
Nancy V. Lotz
Chapter 31. A Support Group in a Home for the Elderly	635	(16)
Phyllis Braudy Harris
Chapter 32. Alzheimer's Disease: Intervention in a Nursing Home Environment	651	(18)
Susan O. Mercer
Betsy Robinson
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Chapter 33. Hospice Care for a Widowed Mother of Six Children	669	(16)
Sylvia Ziserman
Martin B. Millison
Bonnie Carolan-McNulty
Index	685