Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants. This book covers the knowledge bases of obstetric and neonatal medicine--and other specialized topics--as applied to social work practice that you?ll need to be familiar with in order to provide effective care for mother and child. As a guide for new workers, students,...

Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work provides a reference for new perinatal social workers as they face the challenge of overwhelming medical information and technology which they must understand in order to function in their positions. This accessible book illustrates the depth and breadth the field of perinatal social work encompasses and stresses the unchanging goal of perinatal social work--to maximize the potential of every infant and every family.