Social Work Health and Mental Health: Practice, Research and Programs

by Segal; Steven P.

• ISBN13: 9780789017123
• ISBN10: 0789017121
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Rise to today's challenges with these innovative and helpful value-based solutions! Containing important, research-based insights into social work practice in these fields, Social Work Health and Mental Health Practice, Research and Programs provides unique perspectives on shared practice problems from around the world, offering new solutions to the dilemmas practitioners face every day, such as reduced reliance in inpatient/residential service provision, increased reliance on economics in the era of managed care, the move toward multidisciplinary service provision, the growing awareness of diversity of needs, and the cultural requirements of providing effective services. Social Work Health and Mental Health Practice, Research and Programs provides unique international perspectives on real-world social work practice issues, including: ways to use your social work skills to solicit organ/tissue donation for transplants how a social work directed community organization affected change in health behaviors in East Harlem, New York a look at how to promote psychosocial well-being following a diagnosis of cancer a survey of what mental health services Hong Kong elderly feel they need and what they now receive an examination of the role of demographics and social support in clinician- and patient-related compliance among HIV/AIDS patients a discussion of the appropriateness of hospice services for non-English speaking patients and much more!

Table of Contents

PART I
SECTION 1: THE CONTENT OF PRACTICE
Introduction: Parts I and II	3	(8)
Alun C. Jackson
GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH POLICY
Globalisation and Social Policy	11	(20)
John Langmore
Health Care and Social Work Education in a Changing World	31	(12)
Ronald A. Feldman
THE RESTRUCTURING OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEMS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
The Buck Stops Where? Contracting, Service Delivery and the Challenge to Provide Responsive Services	43	(16)
Robyn Munford
Jackie Sanders
The Business Model and Social Work: A Conundrum for Social Work Practice	59	(12)
P. Reg Orovwuje
Social Work and Health Restructuring in Canada and Finland	71	(18)
Tuula Heinonen
Irma MacKay
Anna Metteri
Maija-Liisa Pajula
Delivering Health Care Services in the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective	89	(12)
Ron Levin
Margot Herbert
Health Problems and Long-Term Unemployment	101	(14)
Anneli Pohjola
SECTION 2: RESEARCH
USING STANDARDIZED INSTRUMENTS IN PRACTICE RESEARCH
Use of Standardized Measures in Agency Based Research and Practice	115	(16)
Barbara Berkman
Peter Maramaldi
Construction of a Global Assessment Scale of Family Function, Using a Questionnaire	131	(12)
Mikaela Starke
Elisabeth Svensson
RESEARCH TOOLS FOR DESCRIBING HEALTH SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE AND CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS
Development of the Workload Analysis Scale (WAS) for the Assessment and Rehabilitation Services of Ballarat Health Services	143	(18)
Michael F. Gathercole
Lesley R. DeMello
Discharge Planning for Complex Paediatric Cases	161	(16)
Alun C. Jackson
Belinda Johnson
Maree O'Toole
Gail Auslander
The Development of an Australian National Classification System for Social Work Practice in Health Care	177	(18)
Rosalie Pockett
Bruce Lord
Jane Dennis
A Classification System of Social Problems: Concepts and Influence on GPs' Registration of Problems	195	(46)
Denise A. Deliege
PART II
SECTION 3: GENERIC PRACTICE ISSUES
Community Care in Practice: Social Work in Primary Health Care	241	(20)
Mark Lymbery
Andy Millward
A Body-Mind-Spirit Model in Health: An Eastern Approach	261	(22)
Cecilia Chan
Petula Sik Ying Ho
Esther Chow
Resilient Children: What They Tell Us About Coping with Maltreatment	283	(16)
Darla L. Henry
Keeping It in the Family: Caregiving in Australian-Greek Families	299	(16)
Carol A. Morse
Voula Messimeri-Kianidis
Retooling Social Work Practice for High Volume, Short Stay	315	(18)
Joanne Sulman
Diane Savage
Suesan Way
It's Just Different in the Country: Postnatal Depression and Group Therapy in a Rural Setting	333	(26)
Barbara Lane
Louise M. Roufeil
Susan Williams
Rosemary Tweedie
PART III
SECTION 1: HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE
Introduction: Part III	351	(8)
Steven P. Segal
ENGAGING IN A PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM WITH POPULATIONS THAT ARE THE TRADITIONAL TARGETS OF SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTION
Implementing a Community Intervention Program for Health Promotion	359	(18)
Barbara Brenner
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT TO ENABLE THE USE OF MEDICAL TREATMENT
Social Work Practice in the Donation of Human Tissue for Transplantation: Utilising Social Work Values and Competencies to Achieve Effective Outcomes for Transplant Patients and Donor Families	377	(14)
Lyndall Forbe-Smith
Mary Haire
Mary Doneley
SUPPORTING THE PATIENT IN COPING WITH PROBLEMS
A Follow-Up Study of Women with Cancer: Their Psychosocial Well-Being and Close Relationships	391	(16)
Karen Kayser
Mary Sormanti
Evaluating an Activity Intervention with Hemodialysis Patients in Israel	407	(18)
Gail K. Auslander
Adina Buchs
Social Support, Medication Compliance and HIV/AIDS	425	(36)
Lisa E. Cox
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LONG TERM CARE
The Mental Health Status and Long Term Care Needs of the Chinese Elderly in Hong Kong	461	(18)
Raymond Ngan
Alex Kwan
SECTION 2: MULTICULTURAL PRACTICE
IMMIGRATION
Stage-Specific and Culture-Specific Coping Strategies Used by Mainland Chinese Immigrants During Resettlement in Hong Kong: A Qualitative Analysis	479	(22)
Daniel Fu Keung Wong
Impact of Immigration on Health and Human Services: Florida's Experience	501	(22)
C. Aaron McNeece
Mary Kay Falconer
David Springer
LANGUAGE
Cross Cultural Research in Palliative Care	523	(24)
Annette Field
Paul Maher
David Webb
SECTION 3: MENTAL HEALTH
THE WORKINGS OF THE SYSTEM AND SYSTEM CHANGE
Mental Health System Reform: A Multi Country Comparison	547	(30)
Wes Shera
Uri Aviram
Bill Healy
Shula Ramon
EVALUATING SYSTEM FIT WITH NEED
Mental Health Service Utilization Among the Arabs in Israel	577	(14)
Alean Al-Krenawi
Involuntary Return to a Psychiatric Emergency Service Within Twelve Months	591	(14)
Steven P. Segal
Phillip D. Akutsu
Margaret A. Watson
Conjoint Multi-Disciplinary Assessment in a Community Mental Health Team: The Impact on the Social Work Role	605	(10)
Fraser Mitchell
Douglas A. Patience
The Changing Role of the Social Worker in the Mental Health System	615	(18)
Uri Aviram
Index	633