ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|21 pages
Individual and family work in health settings
chapter 2|19 pages
Primer on micro practice in social work in health care
part Section 1.1|26 pages
Perinatal health settings
chapter 4|11 pages
Ethical considerations in fetal surgery
part Section 1.2|56 pages
Children and youth
chapter 6|13 pages
Pediatric rare conditions
chapter 7|15 pages
Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Program (LEND)
part Section 1.3|43 pages
Emerging adults
chapter 9|15 pages
Carter's struggles with an eating disorder and suicidality
part Section 1.4|74 pages
Adults
chapter 12|12 pages
Working with undocumented immigrants
chapter 13|15 pages
When oncology and psychosocial issues clash
chapter 15|16 pages
A functional medicine approach for complex war related illnesses
part Section 1.5|86 pages
Older adulthood
chapter 17|15 pages
Competing interests
chapter 21|14 pages
Should Grandma be living by herself?
chapter 22|16 pages
A good death
part 2|18 pages
Program, policy, and public health social work
part Section 2.1|27 pages
Spanning boundaries across micro to macro practice
chapter 25|11 pages
The role of school in healthcare intervention
part Section 2.2|28 pages
Programmatic responses to public health needs
chapter 27|14 pages
Social work support for medical students
part Section 2.3|48 pages
Policy responses to public health needs
chapter 29|13 pages
Dentistry and HIV positive patients
part Section 2.4|13 pages
Summary