The Handbook of Health Social Work provides a comprehensive and evidence-based overview of contemporary social work practice in health care. Written from a wellness perspective, the chapters cover the spectrum of health social work settings with contributions from a wide range of experts. The resulting resource offers both a foundation for social work practice in health care and a guide for strategy, policy, and program development in proactive and actionable terms. Three sections present the material: The Foundations of Social Work in Health Care provides information that is basic and central to the operations of social workers in health care, including conceptual underpinnings; the development of the profession; the wide array of roles performed by social workers in health care settings; ethical issues and decision - making in a variety of arenas; public health and social work; health policy and social work; and the understanding of community factors in health social work. Health Social Work Practice: A Spectrum of Critical Considerations delves into critical practice issues such as theories of health behavior; assessment; effective communication with both clients and other members of health care teams; intersections between health and mental health; the effects of religion and spirituality on health care; family and health; sexuality in health care; and substance abuse. Health Social Work: Selected Areas of Practice presents a range of examples of social work practice, including settings that involve older adults; nephrology; oncology; chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS; genetics; end of life care; pain management and palliative care; and alternative treatments and traditional healers. The first book of its kind to unite the entire body of health social work knowledge, the Handbook of Health Social Work is a must-read for social work educators, administrators, students, and practitioners.

TERI ARTHUR BROWNE, MSW, LSW, has been a nephrology social worker since 1995. She chairs the Council of Nephrology Social Workers, and coedits The Journal of Nephrology Social Work. She is a doctoral fellow at the School of Social Service Administration of The University of Chicago where she teaches in the health care concentration

Foreword

ix

Jay Cayner

Acknowledgments

xi

Editor Biographies

xiii

Contributors

xv

Introduction

xvii

Sarah Gehlert

PART I THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE

1

(176)

The Conceptual Underpinnings of Social Work in Health Care

3

(20)

Sarah Gehlert

Social Work Roles and Health-Care Settings

23

(20)

Teri Arthur Browne

Ethics and Social Work in Health Care

43

(27)

Jared Sparks

Public Health and Social Work

70

(53)

Deborah R. Schild

Marjorie R. Sable

Health Policy and Social Work

123

(30)

Julie S. Darnell

Edward F. Lawlor

Community and Health

153

(24)

Christopher Masi

PART II HEALTH SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: A SPECTRUM OF CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS

177

(238)

Theories of Health Behavior

179

(15)

Sarah Gehlert

Physical and Mental Health: Interactions, Assessment, and Intervention

194

(58)

Malitta Engstrom

Communication in Health Care

252

(30)

Sarah Gehlert

Religion, Spirituality, and Health

282

(23)

Kevin Burke

Families, Health, and Illness

305

(30)

John S. Rolland

Allison Werner-Lin

Human Sexuality and Physical Intimacy

335

(32)

Les Gallo-Silver

Substance Use Problems in Health Social Work Practice

367

(48)

Colleen A. Mahoney

Malitta Engstrom

Jeanne C. Marsh

PART III HEALTH SOCIAL WORK: SELECTED AREAS OF PRACTICE

415

(294)

Social Work with Older Adults in Health-Care Settings

417

(31)

Sadhna Diwan

Shantha Balaswamy

Social Work Practice and Disability Issues

448

(23)

Rebecca Brashler

Nephrology Social Work

471

(36)

Teri Arthur Browne

Oncology Social Work

507

(25)

Allison Werner-Lin

Nancee M. Biank

Social Work and Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Heart Disease, and HIV/AIDS

532

(36)

Wendy Auslander

Stacey Freedenthal

Social Work and Genetics

568

(47)

Deborah R. Schild

Susan Taylor-Brown

Luba Djurdjinovic

End-of-Life Care

615

(20)

Yvette Colon

Pain Management and Palliative Care

635

(38)

Terry Altilio

Shirley Otis-Green

Susan Hedlund

Irish Cohen Fineberg

Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine in a Conventional Setting

673

(36)

Penny Block

Afterword

709

(6)

Candyce S. Berger

Author Index

715

(18)

Subject Index

733

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