Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe

by Metteri; Anna

• ISBN13: 9780789025128
• ISBN10: 0789025124
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Overcome the challenges facing social workers today with international guidance Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe is a valuable stepping stone toward an understanding of the diversity of methods utilized in social work for community health services. This work stems from material gathered at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, held in Tampere, Finland. In this book, you will find new creative theoretical and practical orientations for designing, developing, and analyzing social work to help you produce policies and services in which clients can positively and productively invest. Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe covers a long period in the history of social work in health issues, from theoretical treatises to empirical research and analyses of practices. The book provides you with research, case studies, and existing international and national lite

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Anneli Pohjola
Anna Metteri
Teppo Kröger
Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala
SOCIAL WORK EXPERTISE IN HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH
Individualization and Prevention: Richard C. Cabot and Early Medical Social Work	7	(32)
Paul H. Stuart
Doing It Well: An Empirical Study of Expertise in Mental Health Social Work 2l
Martin Ryan
Bill Healy
Noel Renouf
CROSSING BORDERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS AND DIMENSIONS
Boundary-Spanning: An Ecological Reinterpretation of Social Work Practice in Health and Mental Health Systems	39	(20)
Toba Schwaber Kerson
Social Work Field Education as Social Development: A Lithuanian Case Study	59	(18)
Kathleen Tunney
Regina Kulys
Outcomes Measurement: A Social Work Framework for Health and Mental Health Policy and Practice	77	(18)
Edward J. Mullen
COMMUNITY AS A SOCIAL WORK ORIENTATION
Community Based Rural Health Care in India: Potential for Social Work Contribution	95	(22)
Sukla Deb Kanango
Tackling Problem Drug Use: A New Conceptual Framework	117	(22)
Julian Buchanan
Community Care in Taiwan: Mere Talk, No Policy	139	(18)
Yueh-Ching Chou
Teppo Kröger
The Efficacy of Involuntary Treatment in the Community: Consumer and Service Provider Perspectives	157	(18)
Lisa Brophy
David Ring
HIV/AIDS and Home Based Care in Botswana: Panacea or Perfidy?	175	(20)
Gloria Jacques
Christine Stegling
FROM DUAL DIVISIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS: CONSTRUCTING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH
Mental Health Practice and Children: Dogma, Discourse, Debate, and Practice	195	(12)
Barbara Fawcett
Social Exclusion and Psychosis: Exploring Some of the Links and Possible Implications for Practice	207	(28)
Helen Barnes
Index	235