The Changing Face of Health Care Social Work: Professional Practice in Managed Behavioral Health Care, Second Edition

by Sophia F. Dziegielewski PhD, LCSW

Overview

Updated and revised, this text advocates a proactive stance for health care social workers. It will serve as a practical guide that addresses the principles of practice in our current health care environment.

With the advent of numerous health care changes such as managed health care with its focus on behaviorally-based outcomes and objectives, this volume illustrates the "new" face of health care social work. This comprehensive text is full of practice-oriented tips, professional "profiles" in such diverse arenas of practice as the emergency room, home care, case management, and hospice, questions for further study, and select Website resources per chapter. It will help prepare social workers for the practice change needed in order to become viable clinical practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826181466
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/12/2003
Series:	Springer Series on Social Work
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sophia F. Dziegielewski, Ph.D., LCSW, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Central Florida.

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Table of Contents

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Understanding the Practice of Health Care Social Work
1. Changing Face of Health Care Social Work
2. Evolution of the ""New"" Health Care Social Work
3. Many Faces of Social Work Practice
4. Standards, Values and Ethics in Clinical Health Care Practice

Part II. Foundation Skills Necessary in Today's Health Care Environment

5. Concepts Essential to Clinical Practice
6. Practice Strategy: Considerations and Methods for Health Care Social Workers
7. Documentation and Record Keeping in the Health Care Setting
8. Health and Mental Health Assessment

Part III. Fields of Clinical Social Work Practice in Health Care Settings
9. Practice of Social Work in Acute Health Care Settings
10. Long-term Health Care and Restorative Health Settings
11. New Horizons: Health and Wellness Counseling

Part IV. Special Topics and Exemplars in Clinical Health Care Practice

12. Emergency Room Social Work Services
13. Case Management and Discharge Planning
14. Home Care Social Work
15. The Roles and Services Provided by the Hospice Social Worker
16. Social Work in Long Term Care Facilities
17. Children with Chronic and Life Threatening Illness
18. Shaken Baby Syndrome
19. Complementary Therapies: Tips and techniques for Health care Social Workers

Part V. Conclusion

20. Health care Social Work: A Product of Political and Cultural Times

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