Full Description
This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice-in-Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in healthcare settings. The PiC is updated in this edition to attend to social determinants of health and structural conditions. The PiC framework is applied in over 30 case chapters to reflect varied health and social care settings with multiple populations.
Fully updated to reflect the landscape of healthcare provision in the US since the Affordable Care Act was reaffirmed in 2020, the cases are grounded by "primer" chapters to illustrate the necessary decisional and foundational skills for best practices in social work in health settings. The cases cover micro through macro level work with individuals, families, groups, and communities across the life course. The PiC framework helps maintain focus on each of the practice decisions a social worker must make when working with a variety of clients (including military veterans, refugees, LGBTQ+ clients).
The ideal textbook for social work in healthcare and clinical social work classes, this thought-provoking volume thoroughly integrates social work theory and practice and provides an excellent opportunity for understanding particular techniques and interventions.
Contents
0.Foreword. 1.Practice-in-Context (PiC): The Framework. Part One - Individual and Family Work in Health Settings. 2.Primer on micro practice in social work in health care: Context, skills, interventions, and best practices. Section 1.1 - Perinatal health settings. 3.Navigating the unexpected: When maternal trauma and birth intersect. 4.Ethical considerations in fetal surgery: Social workers' role determining maternal-fetal surgery eligibility given an addiction history. Section 1.2 - Children and Youth. 5.Amelia's big changes embodied: Cyclic vomiting syndrome or somatization. 6.Pediatric rare conditions: Working with families through diagnosis and living with illness. 7.Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Program (LEND): Interprofessional work supporting rural and urban children with neuro-developmental disabilities. 8.Sam's "hatching" process: Care management for a child with gender dysphoria. Section 1.3 - Emerging Adults. 9.Carter's struggles with an eating disorder and suicidality: Navigating eating disorder treatment spaces as a queer, mixed-race adolescent. 10.Assistive technology and developmental disability: Helping Gina find her voice. 11.Enhancing the psychosocial and sexual well-being of gender-diverse young adults within a multidisciplinary clinic. Section 1.4 - Adults. 12.Working with undocumented immigrants: Creative problem-solving when serious illness intersects with no insurance. 13.When oncology and psychosocial issues clash: A social worker's role in a complex case with multiple barriers to care. 14.Social work practice adapts to liver transplant population shifts. 15.A functional medicine approach for complex war-related illnesses: Interprofessional teams creating benefits for personalized veteran care. 16.Smoking cessation as a social justice issue: Robert's struggles to stop smoking. Section 1.5 - Older adulthood. 17.Competing interests: Upholding social work ethics in the for-profit dialysis setting. 18.Working with Junior: A study of collaboration, boundaries, and use of self. 19.Social work in long-term care and rehabilitation settings for older adults. 20.Joan's hold on independence: A case of safety and self-determination. 21.Should Grandma be living by herself? The challenges of older adults with mild cognitive impairment in rural communities. 22.A good death: Accessing care at the end of life-cultural, clinical, and institutional considerations. Part Two - Program, Policy, and Public Health Social Work. 23.Primer on macro practice in social work in health care: Public health social work. Section 2.1 - Spanning boundaries across micro to macro practice. 24.Supervision: A micro through macro form of practice in health care. 25.The role of school in healthcare intervention: The benefit of daily monitoring, teamwork, and data collection. Section 2.2 - Programmatic responses to public health needs. 26.Prenatal social support for underserved women in an inner-city community. 27.Social work support for medical students: The creation of a Wellness Advisory Program. Section 2.3 - Policy responses to public health needs. 28.Contact tracing: public health in unprecedented times. 29.Dentistry & HIV positive patients: Indiana University School of Dentistry, social work team. 30.Community-based health interventions and peer support for Bhutanese refugees. Section 2.4 - Summary. 31.Conclusion.
