Social Work in Health Care: Its Past and Future gives social workers up-to-date, comprehensive information about the roles and the kinds of skills needed in all aspects of health care in the field. The book focuses on health care's four major domains: acute care, ambulatory care, illness prevention and health promotion, and long-term care. Surjit SIngh Dhooper reviews the past and present of each of these areas, projects their major needs in the future, and suggests how social work can help meet these needs. The author presents practice theories, principles, approaches, models, and techniques appropriate for the many roles and responsibilities in social work. The book concludes by describing general strategies social workers can use to succeed and thrive in health care settings.
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Preface
1. Introduction
2. Health Care Settings: Their Past
3. Future Needs of Health Care
4. Social Work in Acute Care
5. Social Work in Ambulatory Care
6. Social Work in Illness Prevention and Health Promotion
7. Social Work in Long-Term Care
8. Thriving in Health Care
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Author
PowerPoint® Slides
Chapter-specific slide presentations offer assistance with lecture and review preparation by highlighting essential content, features, and artwork from the book.
Word Test BankThis Word test bank offers a diverse set of test questions and answers for each chapter of the book. Multiple-choice, true/false, short-answer, and essay questions for every chapter help instructors assess students’ progress and understanding.
THIS NEW EDITION:
- Examines The Patient Protection and Affordable Act of 2010, giving students an understanding of the history of efforts to reform the American health care system, provisions of the new law, the political controversy it has generated, and likely consequences
- Includes new discussions on the changing characteristics of hospitals, such as hospital-physician relationships, new ambulatory care settings, and new health care situations
- Provides coverage of state and local public health departments and organizations, including goals and strategies for Healthy People 2020, nursing homes, and other long-term care organizations
- Addresses the issues involved in understanding and interacting with various patient populations, such as elderly, disabled, homeless, alcoholic, and psychiatric patients, families of dying/dead patientsm and others
- Details explanatory and intervention theories, practice principles, and approaches, such as theories of child abuse, principles of family-centered care, health promotions for AIDS prevention, and methods of conflict resolution
- Presents new sections on Relevant Ethical Considerations to expose students to the most ethically challenging situations in various health care settings and the leadership roles that social workers can take on
- Password-protected Instructor Resource Site www.sagepub.com/dhooper2ed/ includes PowerPoint® slides and a test bank
