Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe / Edition 1

by Anna Metteri, Teppo Kroger, Anneli Pohjola, Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala

Overview

Overcome the challenges facing social workers today with international guidance

Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe is a valuable stepping stone toward an understanding of the diversity of methods utilized in social work for community health services. This work stems from material gathered at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, held in Tampere, Finland. In this book, you will find new creative theoretical and practical orientations for designing, developing, and analyzing social work to help you produce policies and services in which clients can positively and productively invest.

Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe covers a long period in the history of social work in health issues, from theoretical treatises to empirical research and analyses of practices. The book provides you with research, case studies, and existing international and national literature from India, Botswana, Taiwan, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. This resource explores the shared qualities of social work in health services throughout the world despite differences between countries in terms of culture, social system, and history.

Although these experts come from different parts of the world, the book displays an emergence of similar issues and themes, including:

• the development of expertise for social workers in the health and mental health fields
• social work as an agent of change that crosses borders, operates on many levels, and across many dimensions of society
• community-based care—principles, perspectives, marginalized groups, and the role of the social worker
• dual divisions—becoming aware of and choosing a position in work practice
  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789025128
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/05/2005
Series:	A Monograph Published Simultaneously As Social Work in Mental Health Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.38(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anna Metteri, Teppo Kroger, Anneli Pohjola, Pirkko-Lisa Rauhala

Table of Contents

• Introduction (Anneli Pohjola, Anna Metteri, Teppo Kröger, and Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala)
• SOCIAL WORK EXPERTISE IN HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH
• Individualization and Prevention: Richard C. Cabot and Early Medical Social Work (Paul H. Stuart)
• Doing It Well: An Empirical Study of Expertise in Mental Health Social Work (Martin Ryan, Bill Healy, and Noel Renouf)
• CROSSING BORDERS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS AND DIMENSIONS
• Boundary Spanning: An Ecological Reinterpretation of Social Work Practice in Health and Mental Health Systems (Toba Schwaber Kerson)
• Social Work Field Education as Social Development: A Lithuanian Case Study (Kathleen Tunney and Regina Kulys)
• Outcomes Measurement: A Social Work Framework for Health and Mental Health Policy and Practice (Edward J. Mullen)
• COMMUNITY AS A SOCIAL WORK ORIENTATION
• Community Based Rural Health Care in India: Potential for Social Work Contribution (Sukla Deb Kanango)
• Tackling Problem Drug Use: A New Conceptual Framework (Julian Buchanan)
• Community Care in Taiwan: Mere Talk, No Policy (Yueh-Ching Chou and Teppo Kröger)
• The Efficacy of Involuntary Treatment in the Community: Consumer and Service Provider Perspectives (Lisa Brophy and David Ring)
• HIV/AIDS and Home Based Care in Botswana: Panacea or Perfidy? (Gloria Jacques and Christine Stegling)
• FROM DUAL DIVISIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS: CONSTRUCTING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH
• Mental Health Practice and Children: Dogma, Discourse, Debate, and Practice (Barbara Fawcett)
• Social Exclusion and Psychosis: Exploring Some of the Links and Possible Implications for Practice (Helen Barnes)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included
  

What People are Saying About This

Kia J. Bentley

UNIQUE AND INTRIGUING . . . certain to stimulate much-needed conversation on international perspectives on health and mental health in social work. Cutting-edge concepts and issues abound: boundary-spanning, outcomes assessment, community care, truly holistic perspectives, and even a welcome call for more attention to the voices of children. As the editors note in their introduction, this is a solid entrée into the 'contradictory demands and diversity of expectations' faced by social workers in health and mental health.
—PhD, LCSW, Professor and Director, PhD Program in Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University; Author of Social Work Practice in Mental Health and Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists

Suki Desai

VERY INTERESTING. . . . It is good to find a text that draws on commonalities of social work practice, enabling the profession to establish shared solutions and capture new ideas. The themes explored in this text have a global relevancy that encapsulates knowledge, skills, and values essential for social work practice and development. The chapters demonstrate the complexities of social work practice and show clearly how social work is carried out on many different levels.
—CQSW, MA, Lecturer in Social Work, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom