| Description |
1 online resource (1345 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PART I; Preface; PART 1: HEALTH CARE SOCIAL WORK: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES; Introduction; Social Work in Health Settings: A Historical Review; The Role of Social Workers in Medical Education: A Historical Perspective; Hyman J. Weiner's Use of Systems and Population Approaches: Their Relevance to Social Work Practice in Health Care Today; An Ecological Perspective on Social Work Practice in Health Care; Social Work in Health Settings; Commentary; Additional Readings; PART 2: WORKING WITH PATIENTS AND FAMILIES; Introduction |
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Psychosocial Responses to Traumatic Physical DisabilityThe Impact of Severe Illness on the Individual and Family: An Overview; The Social Nature of Chronic Disease and Disability; Families, Transitions, and Health: Another Look; Social Work in Home Dialysis: Responding to Trends in Health Care; The Anatomy of Discharge Planning; Evolving Social Work Roles in Health Care: The Case of Discharge Planning; Commentary; PART 3: RESEARCH AND EVALUATION; Introduction; Social Work Services as a Component of Palliative Care with Terminal Cancer Patients; Family Coping with the Crisis of Heart Attack |
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Evaluation of Social Work Practice in Health Care SettingsCommentary; Additional Readings; PART 4: WORKING WITH COLLEAGUES; Introduction; The Interprofessional Team as a Small Group; A Multimodel Approach to Collaborative Practice in Health Settings; Diagnosing the Hospital Team; The Impact of Illness on Patients and Families: Social Workers Teach Medical Students; A Gerontology Internship Program for Medical Students; Commentary; Additional Readings; PART 5: DEVELOPING PROGRAMS AND DELIVERING SERVICES; Introduction |
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A Systems Approach to the Provision of Social Work Services in Health SettingsA Preventive Program for Bereaved Families; The Short-Term Treatment of Depression of Physically Ill Hospital Patients; Terminal Cancer: A Challenge for Social Work; The Case of Ann: A Sleep Disturbance in a 3-Year-Old Child; Family Treatment in the Health Setting: The Need for Innovation; Social Work Groups in Health Settings: Promises and Problems; The Legacy of the Group: A Study of Group Therapy with a Transient Membership; Rehabilitation After Mastectomy: The Group Process; Commentary; Additional Readings |
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Half TitleTitle; Copyright; CONTENTS; PART II; PART 6: PROFESSIONAL AUTHORITY, AUTONOMY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY; Introduction; A Social Work Department Develops and Tests a Screening Mechanism to Identify High Social Risk Situations; The Impact of Early and Comprehensive Social Work Services on Length of Stay; Myocardial Infarction Patients in the Acute Care Hospital: A Conceptual Framework for Social Work Intervention; Medical Handmaidens or Professional Colleagues: A Survey of Social Work Practice in the Pediatrics Departments of Twenty-Eight Teaching Hospitals |
| Summary |
Here is an outstanding reference book of major readings in the field of social work in health care. Practitioners, educators, researchers, and students can use this landmark two-part volume to review dominant themes and critical issues in today's practice environment and to understand the evolution of current trends and emerging policies and programs. In this one desktop source book, hundreds of references relevant to the health care social work field are immediately accessible. Education, policy, practice, and research issues integral to social work's expanding role in health care ar |
| Notes |
Initiation of a Quality Assurance Program for Social Work Practice in a Teaching Hospital |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical social work.
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Medical social work -- United States
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Medical social work
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317823971 |
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1317823974 |
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