Full Description
This book focuses on the characteristics, roles, and training needs of social service delivery providers in leadership roles in U.S. skilled nursing facilities. The chapters in this volume explore a range of issues salient to nursing home social workers and social work practices such as realistic staffing ratios, qualification levels, dementia training needs, involvement in care transitions and admissions and barriers to psychosocial care. The book also addresses the Social Service Directors' involvement in and preparation for disaster care planning, suicide risk management, and serious mental illness.
This edited collection will greatly benefit students, academics and researchers in nursing, psychology, health and social work. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
Contents
Introduction: Nursing Home Social Services Research 1. About a Third of Nursing Home Social Services Directors Have Earned a Social Work Degree and License 2. Serious Mental Illness in Nursing Homes: Roles and Perceived Competence of Social Services Directors 3. Social Services Involvement in Care Transitions and Admissions in Nursing Homes 4. Dementia Tops Training Needs of Nursing Home Social Services Directors; Discharge Responsibilities Are Common Core Functions of the Department 5. Structural Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Social Service Directors that Influence Their Engagement in Disaster Preparedness Processes 6. Social Service Directors' Roles and Self-Efficacy in Suicide Risk Management in US Nursing Homes 7. More Evidence that Federal Regulations Perpetuate Unrealistic Nursing Home Social Services Staffing Ratios 8. Barriers to Psychosocial Care in Nursing Homes as Reported by Social Services Directors
9. Dementia Care Involvement and Training Needs of Social Services Directors in U.S. Nursing Homes
