International Perspectives on Social Work in Health Care

Past, Present, and Future

Gail K Auslander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317948834
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

In the new health care environment, social workers are being called upon to act as case managers, coordinators, evaluators, therapists, and researchers. International Perspectives on Social Work in Health Care brings together academics and practitioners to discuss what managed care, cost containment, corporatization, and pre-payment portend for social work's survival. Its explanatory pages will help you understand the need for skills in networking, mediation, and advocacy, how to link communities and institutions, and how to conceptualize, quantify, and measure the outcomes of social work interventions.In an effort to transcend traditional organizational and intellectual boundaries, International Perspectives on Social Work in Health Care explores conflicts inherent to social work, the need for new theoretical and practice models, social work administration in changing health care organizations, and developments in health social work research. Seeking to unite policy and practice, this guidebook addresses key issues, trends, and innovations in social work, including:

• services that enhance community health
• the transformation of health care in the U.S. into a market commodity
• a broader approach to health and health care to correct gender biases
• lifestyle changes and health promotion
• helping clients overcome patterns of denial, fear, and anger
• individual casework vs. group/community practice
• patterns of social work service provision in a rehabilitation hospital environment
• the effects of heterosexism on health and mental health services to lesbian and gay clientsInternational Perspectives on Social Work in Health Care acts as a forum for contributing authors and readers to exchange and gain information and learn from each others'experiences and expertise. This is the book to help social work academics, educators, and practitioners work together to meet the demands and challenges of the increasingly complex health care environment.

Index

Abuse, among homosexual and lesbian couples, 67, 69–70

Accountability, 2, 3–4, 145

in community-based social work, 16

in health-care institutions, 15

in long-term care, 132–133, 193–208

case analysis of, 200–206

of case-specific activities, 197, 198, 200–206

data collection method for, 195–197

of non-case-specific activities, 197, 199, 200

physical dependency assessment tool for, 201–206

social work activity log of, 196, 198–199

of time-consuming cases, 193–194, 197, 199–200

of practice research, 170–171

Acquired brain injury, definition of, 173

Acquired brain injury patients, medical social work services use by, 169–192

case mix model of, 171, 173

service mapping of, 174–187

case management services, 184–185

counseling services, 175–176, 182–184

crisis intervention services, 181–182, 183, 185–186

demographics of, 177

graphic approach of, 179, 180

methodology of, 174–177

service map example, 178–179, 180, 184, 189–192

social work focus of, 180–181

social workers 27 “invisibility” in, 185–186

theoretical background of, 170–172

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients

advance directives for, 109, 110, 111, 112

homosexuals as, 66–67

illness trajectory of, 172

minority groups as, 17

Active engagement, 95, 96, 99, 102

Activities of daily living (ADLS) limitations, 17–18

Addams, Jane, 16

Addiction. See also Alcohol abuse; Drug abuse

assessment of, 29

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• I. Health Policy and Social Work
• II: Social Work Practice Issues in Health
• III. Developments in Health Social Work Research
• IV. Social Work Administration in Changing Health Care Organizations
• Index