Social Work, Health, and International Development : Compassion in Social Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780789035110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 289 str.

Serge Dumont

Opis

This edited work presents leading international experts from a range of disciplines providing the latest in research, theory, and practical solutions to advance social work in health care issues."

Spis treści

• PART I
• Introduction: Social Work and the Development of a More Compassionate World; Experiences and Knowledge to Share (Serge Dumont and Myreille St-Onge)
• SECTION 1: COMPASSION AND SOLIDARITY
• The Fourth International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health Welcoming Remarks (Serge Dumont)
• Compassion and Solidarity (Fr. Florenzo María Rigoni)
• Ethical Preferences for the Clinical Practice of Empowerment Social Work (Karla Miley and Brenda DuBois)
• SECTION 2: HIV-AIDS
• Cultural Competence in HIV Prevention and Care: Different Histories, Shared Future (William Rowe)
• We Care Don’t We? Social Workers, the Profession and HIV/AIDS (Nigel Hall)
• An Investigation of the Practice of Unsafe Sex Yet Repeated HIV Testing (Naama Patinkin, Ben Werner, Israel Yust, Yaron Yagil, Margalit Drory, and Michael Burke)
• SECTION 3: AGING
• Promoting the Psychosocial Health of the Elderly—The Role of Social Workers (Alice Ming-lin Chong)
• Promoting Older People’s Voices—The Contribution of Social Work to Inter-Disciplinary Research (Jackie Powell)
• PART II
• SECTION 4: PRACTICE
• Do Culturally Sensitive Services for Chinese In-Patients Make a Difference? (Joseph Ng, Svetlana Popova, Myra Yau, and Joanne Sulman)
• Does Difference Matter? Diversity and Human Rights in a Hospital Workplace (Joanne Sulman, Marylin Kanee, Paulette Stewart, and Diane Savage)
• Best Practice Case Management for Improved Medical Adherence (Betsy Vourlekis and Kathleen Ell)
• Improvement of Return Rates in a Neonatal Hearing Screening Program: The Contribution of Social Work (Maria de Fátima de Campos Françozo, Juliana Cristina Fernandes, Maria Cecília Marconi Pinheiro Lima, and Tereza Ribeiro de Freitas Rossi)
• Physicians’ Ability to Influence the Life-Style Behaviors of Diabetic Patients: Implications for Social Work (Revital Gross, Hava Tabenkin, Anthony Heymann, Miriam Greenstein, Ronit Matzliach, Avi Porath, and Basil (Boaz) Porter)
• Perceptions of Online Support for Hospitalized Children and Adolescents (David B. Nicholas, Jane Darch, Ted McNeill, Leanne Brister, Kimberly O’Leary, Deborah Berlin, and Donna Koller)
• Clinical Practice Standards and Ethical Issues Applied to a Virtual Group Intervention for Spousal Caregivers of People with Alzheimer’s (Julie Dergal Serafini, Thecla Damianakis, and Elsa Marziali)
• An Evaluation of Dyadic Peer Support for Caregiving Parents of Children with Chronic Lung Disease Requiring Technology Assistance (David B. Nicholas and Krista Keilty)
• Knowledge and Social Work in Health Care—The Case of Finland (Johanna Björkenheim)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Serge Dumont, Myreille St-Onge