Social work health and mental health : practice, research and programs / Alun C. Jackson, Steven P. Segal, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Alun C.

Segal, Steven P., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical social work.

Medical social work--Administration.

Social work administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (678 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rise to today's challenges with these innovative and helpful value-based solutions!Containing important, research-based insights into social work practice in these fields, Social Work Health and Mental Health Practice, Research and Programs provides unique perspectives on shared practice problems from around the world, offering new solutions to the dilemmas practitioners face every day, such as reduced reliance in inpatient/residential service provision, increased reliance on economics in the era of managed care, the move toward multidisciplinary service provision, the growing awaren

Contents:

Cover; Social Work Health and Mental Health: Practice, Research and Programs; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part I; Section 1: The Content of Practice; Introduction: Parts l and II; Globalization and Its Impact on Health and Mental Health Policy; Globalisation and Social Policy; Health Care and Social Work Education in a Changing World; The Restructuring of Health and Mental Health Service Systems and Its Consequences; The Buck Stops Where? Contracting, Service Delivery and the Challenge to Provide Responsive Services

The Business Model and Social Work: A Conundrum for Social Work PracticeSocial Work and Health Restructuring in Canada and Finland; Delivering Health Care Services in the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective; Health Problems and Long-Term Unemployment; Section 2: Research; Using Standardized Instruments in Practice Research; Use of Standardized Measures in Agency Based Research and Practice; Construction of a Global Assessment Scale of Family Function, Using a Questionnaire; Research Tools for Describing Health Social Work Practice and Client Characteristics

Development of the Workload Analysis Scale (WAS) for the Assessment and Rehabilitation Services of Ballarat Health ServicesDischarge Planning for Complex Paediatric Cases; The Development of an Australian National Classification System for Social Work Practice in Health Care; A Classification System of Social Problems: Concepts and Influence on GPs' Registration of Problems; Part II; Section 3: Generic Practice Issues; Community Care in Practice: Social Work in Primary Health Care; A Body-Mind-Spirit Model in Health: An Eastern Approach

Resilient Children: What They Tell Us About Coping with MaltreatmentKeeping It in the Family: Caregiving in Australian-Greek Families; Retooling Social Work Practice for High Volume, Short Stay; It's Just Different in the Country: Postnatal Depression and Group Therapy in a Rural Setting; Part III; Section 1: Health and Medical Care; Introduction: Part III; Engaging in a Public Health Program with Populations that are the Traditional Targets of Social Work Intervention; Implementing a Community Intervention Program for Health Promotion

Resource Development to Enable the Use of Medical TreatmentSocial Work Practice in the Donation of Human Tissue for Transplantation: Utilising Social Work Values and Competencies to Achieve Effective Outcomes for Transplant Patients and Donor Families; Supporting the Patient in Coping with Problems; A Follow-Up Study of Women with Cancer: Their Psychosocial Well-Being and Close Relationships; Evaluating an Activity Intervention with Hemodialysis Patients in Israel; Social Support, Medication Compliance and HIV/AIDS; Addressing the Issue of Long Term Care

The Mental Health Status and Long Term Care Needs of the Chinese Elderly in Hong Kong

Notes:

". has been co-published simultaneously as Social work in health care, Volume 34, Numbers 1/2 and 3/4 2001 and Volume 35, Numbers 1/2 2002."

First published by the Haworth Social Work Practice Press, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7890-1713-X

1-317-78808-7

1-315-80895-1

1-317-78809-5

9781315808956

OCLC:

872682262