Professional Social Work Education and Health Care

Challenges for the Future

Mildred D Mailick, Phyllis Caroff

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136370670
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Professional Social Work Education and Health Care responds to critical concerns about the educational preparation of social workers within the rapidly changing health care environment. Contributors address issues and questions of importance to educators who are contending with the multiple challenges of rapidly changing institutions, fiscal constraints, and service to populations with complex social health care needs. This coverage provides you with important visions of the future education of leaders in health care social work. The editors of Professional Social Work Education and Health Care present information that looks to the future in order to open the floor for communication among the leaders in health care social work settings. Chapters explain the context of social work practice, exploe current social work practice issues, and look into continuing education and fieldwork. In doing so, they give you valuable information about imprtant issues such as:

• changes in social work department structure and function in challenging economic times
• collaborative efforts and reciprocal relationships in education and training
• emergence of networks that will join forces with hospitals
• preparation for short-term, solution-based social work
• the remaining need for traditional, long-term social work frameworks and values
• the shift in ideology to viewing clients as consumers rather than patients
• modification of curriculum to focus on parenting, health education, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and wellness programs
• emergence of a model for post-master's education
• field work in community-based health care placements versus inpatient hospital settingsThis book's model for making education and practice responsive to each other and for responding to the needs for collaboration makes it a valuable resource for social work educators, practitioners, and clinicians in health and mental health; advanced gerontologists in academic and practice agencies; and teachers of policy and research in health concentrations in schools of social work. Professional Social Work Education and Health Care is an excellent ancillary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in social work practice in health and mental health and is a strong addition to reading lists for classes on social work with the aged, social work research in health care, and field work seminars in health and mental health.

Index

Page numbers followed by f indicate figures; those followed by t indicate tables.

Academic medical center, social work in, 115–135

context of health care, 126–129

ethical issues, 129–130

individual, farnily, and groups, 124–126

legal issues, 129–130

research skills needed for, 129

Accountability, in contemporary health care social work practice, 25–26

Addison’s disease, 121

American Association of Medical Social Workers (AAMSW), 39

American Association of Schools of Social Work, 15

Anxiety, of social workers, cost constraints and, 54

Apprenticeship, in social work education, 74

Association of Training Schools for Professional Social Work, 39

Asthmatics, relaxation training for, 121

Bandura, 80

Bartlett, H., 23, 119

Behavioral theories, in social work practice, 4

Berkman, B., 95

Beth Israel Hospital, post-master’s program in gerontological social work at, 137–152

Betz, N.E., 81

Biomedical knowledge, in social work, 118–124

Cancer patients, chronically ill, computerized telephone monitoring system for, 58–59

Carlton, T., 15, 16

Caroff, P., 15

Child psychiatrists, cost constraint effects on, 54

Clients as consumers, in social work practice, 5

Clinton, W., 38, 41

Communication, in contemporary health care social work practice, 26–29

in cost conscious health care environment, 53–72

Computerized telephone monitoring system, for chronically ill cancer patients, 58–59

Consultation, restructuring of, in cost conscious health care environment, 64–68

Continuing education, restructuring of, in cost conscious health care environment, 64–68

Continuous quality improvement (CQI), 20

Cost containment, health care, school and agency collaboration in, 53–72. See also under Health care system, cost conscious

to social workers, consequence of. See Health care system, cost conscious

Council on Social Work Education, 39–40

school of social work “linkages” with systems in medical centers and other health care professional schools in, 14–15

Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), 15

Cushing’s disease, 121

Cuzzi, L., 27

Diabetes, relaxation training for, 121

Dialysis, side effects of, 123

Education, continuing, restructuring of, in cost conscious health care environment, 64–68

versus practice, 15

social work, 2

social work field. See Social work field education

social work pract...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Educational Preparation for Contemporary Health Care Social Work Practice
• Social Work Practice in Health Care: Looking to the Future with a Different Lens
• School and Agency Collaboration in a Cost Conscious Health Care Environment
• A Pilot Study of Fieldwork Rotations vs. Year Long Placements for Social Work Students in a Public Hospital
• Education of Staff and Students in Health Care Settings: Integrating Practice and Research
• Social Work in the Academic Medical Center: Advanced Training—A Necessity
• A Post-Master’s Program in Gerontological Social Work: Fulfilling a Practice Need in I-Iealth Care
• Index