Full Description
Health services practice or working with clients facing health issues requires diverse approaches and wide-ranging knowledge. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Melissa Petrakis draws on the experience and expertise of leading researchers and practitioners to provide a guide to the disparate settings in which social workers are engaged and the conceptual frameworks and skills needed for effective practice.
Including new chapters on compassion in healthcare, neoliberalism and health, social justice, suicidal distress, and health social work in regional, rural and remote settings, the book begins by examining the nature of health social work and considers its core values and principles. Part I also provides an overview of the social determinants of health. Part II explores key areas of practice including trauma-informed practice, mental health, aged care, dual diagnosis and working with people living with disability. Part III looks at politicised issues, reform agendas in the field including indigenous approaches to health, refugee health, and concludes by considering how a focus on well-being informed by Maori approaches could provide new insights into better practice.
Underpinning the book throughout is a clear guide to assessment procedures, case management, strengths-based practices and developing effective partnerships and collaboration. All this makes Social Work Practice in Health a key reference tool for social work students and practitioners.
Contents
Part 1.What is Health Social Work? Role, Values, and Principals for Practice. 1.An Introduction to Health and Health Services Practice, and the Social Determinants of Health. 2.A Social Justice Perspective on the Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Dimensions of Health. 3.Neoliberal Capitalism and its Impact on Individual and Community Health: Implications for Critical Social Workers. 4.Compassion in Healthcare. Part 2.Health Practice and Practice Contexts. 5.Trauma-informed Practices in Health Social Work. 6.Mental Health Social Work: Recovery-oriented Practice Engagement and Collaboration. 7.Social Work Advanced Practice Skills in Mental Health. 8.Aged Care: Health, Assessments, In-Home Care and Residential Care. 9.Engaging with Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery: Dual Diagnosis Practice Principles and Tools. 10.Social Work Practice and People Living with Disability. Part 3.Reform Agendas. 11.Responding to Suicidal Distress in Social Work Practice: Challenges and Opportunities. 12.Social Work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Health: A Shared Learning, Trauma Informed, Cultural Safety Approach. 13.Bringing Whānau Ora to Health Social Work. 14.Social Work in Health: Considerations for Refugee Health. 15.Health Social Work in Regional, Rural and Remote Settings: Responding to the Intersection of Location, Disadvantaged Populations and Communities.
