Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context

by Judith L.M. McCoyd, Jessica Euna Lee, Toba Schwaber Kerson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032186603
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/27/2022
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Judith L.M. McCoyd, PhD, LCSW is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work, having served as a health social worker in perinatal, oncology, and emergency room settings in the 1980s through the early 2000s. Her research and practice lie at the intersection of physical and mental health, loss and grief, and interprofessional collaboration.

Jessica Euna Lee, PhD, LSW is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Social Work, having practiced as a health social worker with refugee and immigrant communities. Her research and practice focus on refugee and global health, health equity, ethics, forced migration, decolonizing practices, and community-driven interventions.

Toba Schwaber Kerson, DSW, PhD is Mary Hale Chase Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences and Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. As a Fulbright Specialist, she has lectured and consulted about social work in public health at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and the French Social Work Training Institute in Marseille, France. In retirement, Professor Kerson continues to follow her passions for social work, public health, and civic responsibility.

Table of Contents

0.Foreword. 1.Practice-in-Context (PiC): The Framework. Part One - Individual and Family Work in Health Settings. 2.Primer on micro practice in social work in health care: Context, skills, interventions, and best practices. Section 1.1 - Perinatal health settings. 3.Navigating the unexpected: When maternal trauma and birth intersect. 4.Ethical considerations in fetal surgery: Social workers’ role determining maternal-fetal surgery eligibility given an addiction history. Section 1.2 – Children and Youth. 5.Amelia’s big changes embodied: Cyclic vomiting syndrome or somatization. 6.Pediatric rare conditions: Working with families through diagnosis and living with illness. 7.Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Program (LEND): Interprofessional work supporting rural and urban children with neuro-developmental disabilities. 8.Sam's "hatching" process: Care management for a child with gender dysphoria. Section 1.3 - Emerging Adults. 9.Carter’s struggles with an eating disorder and suicidality: Navigating eating disorder treatment spaces as a queer, mixed-race adolescent. 10.Assistive technology and developmental disability: Helping Gina find her voice. 11.Enhancing the psychosocial and sexual well-being of gender-diverse young adults within a multidisciplinary clinic. Section 1.4 - Adults. 12.Working with undocumented immigrants: Creative problem-solving when serious illness intersects with no insurance. 13.When oncology and psychosocial issues clash: A social worker’s role in a complex case with multiple barriers to care. 14.Social work practice adapts to liver transplant population shifts. 15.A functional medicine approach for complex war-related illnesses: Interprofessional teams creating benefits for personalized veteran care. 16.Smoking cessation as a social justice issue: Robert’s struggles to stop smoking. Section 1.5 - Older adulthood. 17.Competing interests: Upholding social work ethics in the for-profit dialysis setting. 18.Working with Junior: A study of collaboration, boundaries, and use of self. 19.Social work in long-term care and rehabilitation settings for older adults. 20.Joan’s hold on independence: A case of safety and self-determination. 21.Should Grandma be living by herself? The challenges of older adults with mild cognitive impairment in rural communities. 22.A good death: Accessing care at the end of life–cultural, clinical, and institutional considerations. Part Two - Program, Policy, and Public Health Social Work. 23.Primer on macro practice in social work in health care: Public health social work. Section 2.1 - Spanning boundaries across micro to macro practice. 24.Supervision: A micro through macro form of practice in health care. 25.The role of school in healthcare intervention: The benefit of daily monitoring, teamwork, and data collection. Section 2.2 - Programmatic responses to public health needs. 26.Prenatal social support for underserved women in an inner-city community. 27.Social work support for medical students: The creation of a Wellness Advisory Program. Section 2.3 - Policy responses to public health needs. 28.Contact tracing: public health in unprecedented times. 29.Dentistry & HIV positive patients: Indiana University School of Dentistry, social work team. 30.Community-based health interventions and peer support for Bhutanese refugees. Section 2.4 - Summary. 31.Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

The new edition of this classic text offers the most comprehensive and insightful analysis of social work practice in health care found in any textbook. The cases are new and discuss cutting-edge issues including transgender health, genetic testing and counseling, immigrant health, and international public health. Of particular value are the discussions of each case that identify new learning and that model reflective practice skills. Because it presents contemporary issues influencing the context for, and the process of, social work decision-making in the accessible form of case studies, Social Work in Health Settings is strongly recommended as a textbook for students as well as advanced practitioners.

Goldie Kadushin, Professor Emerita, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

The 4^th edition of McCoyd and Kerson’s Social Work in Health Settings makes a strong case for its impact and utility for social workers in health care. This well-written and consistently edited book allows each contributor to speak in her own voice. The range of settings and social work roles presented expands our understanding of social work in health care while the casebook format helps the reader to see reflective social workers in action. Social work educators will also find the book useful for teaching generalist social work practice.

Julie S. Abramson, Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA

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