Social work in health settings : practice in context / / [edited by] Toba Schwaber Kerson, Judith L.M. McCoyd, and associates

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.1; 362.1/0425
• Soggetto topico: Medical social work - United States; Public health - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KersonToba Schwaber McCoydJudith L. M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Practice in context: The framework; Part 1.1 INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY WORK: Maternal and child health; 2 Fetal surgery: A new setting for social work intervention; 3 Intimate partner violence in the NICU; 4 Social work in a perinatal AIDS program; 5 Social work practice in an adolescent parenting program; Part 1.2 INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY WORK: Children and youth; 6 Managing asthma from a social work perspective in a center for children with special health needs ; 7 Social work in the pediatric endocrinology and diabetes clinic: Fighting the new epidemic of type 2 diabetes in children8 Foster care for children with special health care needs; 9 Social work in a pediatric hospital: Managing a medically complex patient; 10 Family-focused care of an adolescent with a burn: A multidisciplinary approach; 11 Longing to belong: Finding a sense of acceptance and community at a Special Services School District; Part 1.3 INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY WORK: Adults; 12 Helping a man who had been living in a ventilator assistance facility to receive a new lung ; 13 Following her lead: A measured approach to providing case management and mental health treatment to homeless adults14 Social work in a for-profit renal dialysis unit; 15 Returning veterans, traumatic brain injury, and Veterans' Administration services: A War Related Illness and Injury Study Center; Part 1.4 INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY WORK: The elderly; 16 The case of Junior: A study of collaboration, boundaries, and use of self; 17 A framework for working with people with early-stage dementia: A relationship-focused approach to counseling ; 18 Autonomy-friend or foe in the health care center: A social worker's perspective19 Geriatric social work in a community hospital: High-touch, low-tech work in a high-tech, low-touch environment; 20 Hospice services: The dilemmas of technology at the end of life; Part 2 GROUP, PROGRAM AND/OR ADVOCACY WORK; 21 We Are Not Alone: A support group for loss after diagnosis of fetal anomaly; 22 Spina bifida and physical activity: Group-centered care ; 23 Group interventions for adults with HIV/AIDS: Meeting the needs of Latino patients living with HIV/AIDS at a comprehensive care center in New York City24 Woman to Woman: A hospital-based support program for women with gynecologic cancer and their families; 25 The child and parent team approach: A Philadelphia interdepartmental collaborative to provide communitybased services to at-risk mothers and newborns; 26 The Young Women's Program: A health and wellness model to empower adolescents with physical disabilities in a hospital-based setting ; 27 The social worker on the genetic counseling team: A new role in social work oncology
• Sommario/riassunto: The most comprehensive book of its kind, Social Work in Health Settings presents a ""practice in context"" framework which is then applied in thirty-one casebook chapters, covering a great variety of health care settings from working with survivors of domestic violence through supporting people with HIV to services for military personnel. Reflecting the enormous changes in policy, health care delivery, insurance systems, and the diagnosis and treatment of many conditions, this third edition features all new case chapters. Each chapter considers the impact of dimensions of co
• Titolo autorizzato: Social work in health settings
• ISBN: 1-135-16529-7; 1-282-50353-7; 9786612503535; 0-203-85973-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910305548603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II