Social Work in Health Care

Its Past and Future
2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4522-0620-2
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dhooper, Surjit Singh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dhooper, Surjit Singh
Surjit Singh Dhooper is Professor Emeritus at the College of Social Work, University of Kentucky. His professional experience, spread over more than 40 years, includes both practice and teaching. He did clinical as well as administrative and community organizational work in health care settings for 18 years and taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels for about 25 years. He also held academic administrative positions such as Director of Ph.D. Program and Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Social Work. He was closely associated with the work of the Human Development Institute and Sanders Brown Center on Aging of the University of Kentucky. He was awarded an endowed professorship—Constance Wilson Professor of Mental Health—in 2000, which he occupied until his retirement.