International Social Health Care Policy, Program, and Studies

Gary Rosenburg, Andrew Weissman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781135804077
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Noted experts provide practical, effective strategies to meet global health challengesInternational Social Health Care Policy, Program, and Studies presents a collection of papers drawn from the Ninth Doris Siegel Memorial Fund Colloquium that focuses on social work and international health issues, emphasizing an international exchange and cooperation as a crucial facet of meeting global health challenges. Honoring the memory and spirit of social work pioneer Doris Siegel for her accomplishments and advocacy on behalf of social-health issues, this fine selection of scholarly papers explores ideas and strategies from around the world which offer greater opportunity for success for diverse social work and health care problems. Internationally recognized practitioners and academics offer research and case studies illustrating approaches, programs, and policies that any practitioner or policymaker may find helpful.International Social Health Care Policy, Program, and Studies closely examines the common ground in social health care problems shared by various countries worldwide. Issues such as the effects of terrorism, academic-practice partnerships in practice research, and the international exchange program are explored, with insightful discussions that explain in which directions to best channel social and health care energies and resources. Helpful figures and tables further explain concepts and research.Topics in International Social Health Care Policy, Program, and Studies include:

• Strength-focused and Meaning-oriented Approach to Resilience and Transformation (SMART) as a model of crisis intervention that uses a holistic view of health
  
• outpatient commitment as a delivery system
  
• assisted conception and social work needs in the United Kingdom
  
• a study on the psychological distress between elderly Israeli residents and immigrant family caregivers
  
• impact of prolonged terrorist attacks on children and adolescents in Israel
  
• stress experienced by social workers working with terror victims
  
• integration of social workers into hospital disaster response teams in Australia
  
• academic practice research partnerships for health social workers
  
• evaluation of the outcomes from the Mount Sinai Social Work Leadership Enhancement Program
  
• discussion of the lessons learned from the 75-year history of health social work in Melbourne, Australia
  
• and more!

International Social Health Care Policy, Program, and Studies is horizon-expanding reading that is perfect for social workers dealing with a global community, social work libraries, educators, students, and libraries of all types.

Index

AASW. See Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)

AASW Special Interest Groups, 167

Aayalon, E., 126

Academic-practice partnerships, in practice research, 151–161

background of, 153–156

process of, 156–161

ACER (Assisted Conception Education Resources Forum), 58

Achenbach, T.M., 101–102

Adams, R.E., 135

Adolescent(s)

reactions to prolonged terrorist attacks in Israel, 95–114. See also Terrorist attacks, prolonged, in Israel, children and adolescents’ reactions to

SMART in, 26–27

Adoption, parallels with, in ‘Why Anonymity Paper,’ 63–64

Adoption Act of 1976, 55

Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 188

After Adoption Yorkshire, 68

ALERT team, 159

Alfred Hospital, 170

Allied Health & Nursing Research Group, 170

Allied Health Award, 186

Almoner training, commencement of, 176–177

Almoning, in Victoria, establishing of, 175–176

American Red Cross, 134

Applied Economic Research, of University of Melbourne, 182

Aranda, M.P., 84

Assisted Conception Education Resources Forum (ACER), 58

Association of Directors of Social Service, 57

Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers, 196

Auschwitz, 209

Australian Almoner Department, at Melbourne Hospital, 176

Australian Association of Hospital Almoners, 177

Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), 179, 182–184, 188

Victorian Branch of, Health Special Interest Group of, 187

Australian Red Cross Society, 176

Australian Social Welfare Union, 183, 184

Australian Social Work, 188

Awburn, M., 184, 189

Bali Disaster, 145

Barondess, J., 7

BASW. See British Association of Social Workers (BASW)

BASW Code of Ethics, 65

Beck, R.J., 133

Ben-Ari, O., 199

Benjamin, S., 134, 135

Ben-Yizhack, Y., 135

Berger, 153

BICA. See British Infertility Counselling Association (BICA)

Blears, H., 68

Bleich, A., 126

Blumenfield, S., 164, 165, 166, 195

Bonanno, G.A., 13

Boscarino, J.A., 116, 135

Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), 27, 80

Briefing Papers, 59

British Association of Social Workers (BASW), 54–56, 59

Code of Ethics of, 65

role of, 64–66

British Fertility Society, 69

British Infertility Counselling Association (BICA), 57, 60

Brown, L., 54

BSI. See Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)

Buchbiner, E., 135

Buregess, P., 37

Calhoun, L.G., 14

Cancer Council of Victoria, 167

Cancer survivors, posi...