Social Work Visions from Around the Globe: Citizens, Methods, and Approaches

by Metteri; Anna

• ISBN13: 9780789023667
• ISBN10: 0789023660
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Increase the effectiveness of the services you provide to clients Social Work Visions from Around the Globe examines the fundamental principles and dilemmas of social work with people whose health is under threat. This valuable resource was compiled from material presented at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health in Tampere, Finland. The book explores key issues in social work in health and mental health, from the early historical roots of social work in health to developing a human rights perspective on the lives of men who face capital punishment. Using tables, figures, case studies, and interviews, the text will help you provide holistic, client-based care to children, men, women, and families. Social Work Visions from Around the Globe is divided into two sections: the first half discusses the position of individuals and families as users of health and mental health care services. Specific cases in the book include social work situations for children with disabilities, the mentally ill, the elderly, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. This text includes research and findings on the challenges and solutions faced by social workers in North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the second half, Social Work Visions from Around the Globe focuses on various approaches to social work in health and mental health that address: the diversity of societies strengthening the voice of the social worker and service user the expertise of service users development of methods family life and childhood in global comparison human rights issues in social work

Table of Contents

Introduction : women's and men's needs as a challenge for gender-sensitive services	p. 3
Opening remarks, 1 July 2001, Tampere	p. 7
Understanding the interconnections between ethnicity, gender, social class and health : experiences of minority ethnic women in Britain	p. 11
Psychosocial problems and coping patterns of HIV seropositive wives of men with HIV/AIDs	p. 29
Rehabilitation of the wandering seriously mentally ill (WSMI) women : the Banyan experience	p. 49
Time to father	p. 67
Disabled children and their families in Ukraine : health and mental health issues for families caring for their disabled child at home	p. 89
Parents as advocates : stories of surplus suffering when a child is diagnosed and treated for cancer	p. 107
The long-term psychosocial effects of cancer diagnosis and treatment on children and their families	p. 129
Coping and resilience of children of a mentally ill parent	p. 151
The experience of urban aboriginals with health care services in Canada : implications for social work practice	p. 165
Participation and citizenship of elderly persons : user experiences from Finland	p. 181
Mental homelessness : locked within, locked without	p. 209
Introduction : part II	p. 227
Cultural competence in psychosocial and psychiatric care : a critical perspective with reference to research and clinical experiences in California, U. S. and in Germany	p. 231
Cultural and ethical issues in working with culturally diverse patients and their families : the use of the culturagram to promote cultural competent practice in health care settings	p. 249
Transforming the legacies of childhood trauma in couple and family therapy	p. 263
Social group work : building a professional collective of hospital social workers	p. 287
Partnership in mental health and child welfare : social work responses to children living with parental mental illness	p. 309
Changing practice : involving mental health service users in planning service provision	p. 325
Postmodern social work in interdisciplinary contexts : making space on both sides of the table	p. 343
Using music as a therapy tool to motivate troubled adolescents	p. 361
Mental health, social inclusion and the green agenda : an evaluation of a land based rehabilitation project designed to promote occupational access and inclusion of service users in North Somerset, U. K.	p. 375
Social vaccine for HIV prevention : a study on truck drivers in South India	p. 399
The experience of receiving a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis after age 20 : implications for social work	p. 415
What social workers can do about violence : learnings from the lives of 37 men	p. 435
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