Social Work Practice for Promoting Health and Wellbeing: Critical Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415535205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 280 str.

Liz Beddoe; Jane Maidment

Opis

Promoting health and wellbeing is an essential part of all effective social work not just for practice in healthcare settings. In fact, the IFSW holds that social workers in all settings are engaged in health work and physical and mental resilience can make a major difference to all service users lives.

Drawing on international literature and research, the authors collected here encourage thinking about the social, political, cultural, emotional, spiritual, economic and spatial aspects of health and wellbeing, and how they impact on the unique strengths and challenges of working with particular populations and communities. Divided into three parts, the first section outlines the major theoretical paradigms and critical debates around social work and ideas of wellbeing, globalisation, risk and vulnerability, and the natural environment. The second part goes on to explore how diverse understandings of culture, identity, spirituality and health require different strategies for meeting health and wellbeing needs. The final part presents a variety of examples of social work research in relation to health and wellbeing with specific populations, including mental health.

Exploring how structural inequality, oppression and stigma can impact upon people, and drawing upon a social model of health, this book is an important read for all practitioners and researchers interested in social work, public health and social inclusion.

Spis treści

1. Social Work Practice for Promoting Health and Wellbeing  Liz Beddoe and Jane Maidment  Part 1: Current Themes and Critical Issues in Health and Well-Being  2. Exploring Interpretations of Health and Wellbeing for Social Work  Jane Maidment  3. Globalisation, Social Work and Health  Paul Bywaters  4. Facing the Challenges Together - a Future Vision for Health Social Work  Linda Haultain  5. Risk and Vulnerability Discourses in Contemporary Health Care  Liz Beddoe  6. Stress, Resilience and Responding to Civil Defence Emergencies and Natural Disasters: an Ecological Approach  Carole Adamson  7. Stigma in Health and Social Work: Towards a New Paradigm  Viviene Cree  8. The Natural Environment and Well-Being  Uschi Bay  Part 2: Diverse Communities: Culture, Identity, Spirituality and Health  9. Indigenous Australian Social-Health Theory: Decolonisation, Healing—Reclaiming Wellbeing  Lorraine Muller  10. Whai Ora – Maori Health  Jim Anglem  11. Pacific Health  Yvonne Crichton-Hill, Tanya McCall and Genevieve Togiaso  12. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual People and Discourses of Health and Wellbeing  Joy Phillips  13. Disability-Inclusive Social Work Practice  Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic  Part 3: Messages from Research  14. Collaborative Practice and Family Meetings in Children’s Health  Andrew Thompson and Carole Adamson  15. Improving Public Spaces for Young People: The Contribution of Participatory Research  Phil Crane  16. Ageing in Resiliency: Learning from the Experiences and Perceptions of Migrant Older Adults  Hong Jae Park  17. Refugee Resettlement: Considerations of Health and Wellbeing  Jay Marlowe  18. Mental Health, Social Work and Professionalism  Selma Macfarlane  19. Partnering in the Field of Chronic Care Service Provision  Christa Fouché  20. Crafting Social Connectedness: A Community Development Model  Jane Maidment, Uschi Bay and Michelle Courtenay  21. Pregnancy in an Age of Medical Technology: Decisions, Loss, and Research with a Vulnerable Population  Judith McCoyd