A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals : A Daring Response to an Epidemic

ISBN-13: 9780789015877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 398 str.

Barbara Willinger; Alan Rice

Opis

Presents first-hand historical perspectives form frontline hospital social workers who cared for HIV/ AIDS patients during the epidemic's beginning in the early 1980s.

Spis treści

• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section I: Medical Overview
• Chapter 1. An Adult Infectious Disease Doctor’s Encounter with HIV/AIDS (Alan Berkman)
• Chapter 2. A Pediatrician’s Encounter with HIV/AIDS
• Section II: Uncharted Territory
• Chapter 3. Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Metropolitan New York
• Chapter 4. The Emergence of Social Workers in the AIDS Epidemic: SWAN—Social Work AIDS Network, San Francisco
• The Emergence of SWAN
• The Growth of SWAN
• The Politicalization of SWAN
• Chapter 5. The South Carolina Experience
• Organizational Genesis
• Organizational Practice and Culture
• Daily Life in an Early ASO
• Organizational Challenges
• The Past Is Present
• Family Secrets
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Social Work in HIV Care: A Labor of Love in Philadelphia
• Chapter 7. The New York State Response: Case Management for Persons Living with HIV and AIDS
• Development of COBRA Community Follow-Up
• Measuring Case Management Outcomes
• The New Era of Managed Care
• The Future of Case Management in New York State
• Chapter 8. The New York City Division of AIDS Services
• Background
• The Model
• The Program
• The Staff
• The Clients
• Housing
• Change
• Chapter 9. A Case of Serendipity: A Brief History of the Early Years of the Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS
• Introduction
• Can This Idea Work?
• The Conference Becomes a Reality
• Can This Conference Continue?
• A Look at 1992 to the Present
• Concluding Thoughts
• Chapter 10. Motivating the System from Within
• Section III: The Heyday
• Chapter 11. From Medical Social Work to the Constant Object: The Long and Winding Road
• Chapter 12. You Cannot Make This Stuff Up
• Chapter 13. Rethinking Group Process—Or Do We?
• Chapter 14. HIV Support Groups in a Hospital Setting
• Group Formation
• Group Facilitation
• Group Themes and Issues
• Chapter 15. Group Intervention in the Early Days of the GRID Epidemic: A Reflection of One Social Worker’s Personal Experience
• Introduction
• Common Emotional Reactions
• Group Intervention
• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• Chapter 16. The Missing Support Group: Interventions with AIDS Patients
• The Existing Groups
• Program Expansion
• Group Expansion
• The Absence of Need
• Chapter 17. Twenty Years of the Epidemic: A Social Work Administrator’s Personal Perspective
• 1981 to 1985—The Crisis to Be, Still Unknown (3,500 Cases Worldwide by 1983)
• 1985 to 1995—A Decade of Hope (10,000 AIDS Cases in the United States in 1985)
• 1995 to the Present—Living with Reality and Coping with New Challenges (500,000 AIDS Cases in the United States in 1995)
• Chapter 18. Supervising Pediatric HIV/AIDS Case Managers: Lessons Learned
• Introduction
• Background
• The Supervisory Model
• Conclusions
• Chapter 19. Social Work with Hospitalized AIDS Patients: Observations from the Front Line of an Inner-City Hospital
• Harper Model: Responses and Vignettes
• A Model of Hospital AIDS Work
• Conclusion
• Section IV: The Decline/The Future—What Does It Look Like?
• Chapter 20. Social Work, New York State AIDS Centers, and Special Needs Plans
• Chapter 21. HIV/AIDS and Social Work Practice in Rural North Carolina: A Retrospective Account
• Introduction
• Community and Health Care Provider Reactions
• Practice Issues
• Perspectives on Support Resources
• Professional Awareness and Future Practice Considerations
• Chapter 22. Hospital Social Work with HIV/AIDS Patients to 1995: Death, Dying, Layoffs, and Managed Care
• Chapter 23. Acute Care: Personal Reflections of Providing Social Work Interventions to Patients with HIV/AIDS
• Chapter 24. Social Work in an Interdisciplinary

O autorze

Barbara I Willinger, Alan Rice