Social work in health settings : practice in context / Toba Schwaber Kerson and Associates.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Introduction
Practice in Context: The Framework
Part I: Services for Children and/or Families
Chapter 1. Premature Babies in the Intensive Care Nursery
Chapter 2. Social Work in a Perinatal AIDS Program
Chapter 3. Social Work Interventions on Behalf of a Burned Child: Children's Hospital Emergency Room
Chapter 4. Social Work Practice in Early Intervention: Child Service Coordination in a Rural Health Department
Chapter 5. School-Based Health Centers: A Multisystem Approach to the Delivery of Primary Health Care
Chapter 6. Epilepsy in Childhood: Pediatric Neurology Clinic
Chapter 7. Family-Centered Care: Life Span Issues in a Spina Bifida Specialty Care Program
Chapter 8. Family House/Womanspace: A Residential Treatment Program for Women and Their Children
Chapter 9. Residential Care Facility: Treatment of a Child with Severe Disabilities

Part II: Acute and High-Technology Care
Chapter 10. Discharge Planning in a Community Hospital: A Patient Whose Symptoms the System Could Not Manage
Chapter 11. Psychological Recovery from Burn Injury: Regional Burn Center
Chapter 12. Confronting a Life-Threatening Disease: Renal Dialysis and Transplant Programs
Chapter 13. Beyond Survival by Machine: Reflections of a Spouse
Chapter 14. Adult Oncology: Helping a Terminally Ill Woman to Plan and Cope

Part III: Rehabilitation, Long-Term Intervention, and Advocacy
Chapter 15. Family Therapy with a Chronic Pain Patient: Rehabilitation Hospital
Chapter 16. Rehabilitation of a Quadriplegic Adolescent: Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center
Chapter 17. Mutual Help Group for Emphysema Patients: Veterans Administration Medical Center
Chapter 18. Advocacy and Social Action Among Navajo Uranium Workers and Their Families
Chapter 19. A Community-Based Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Part IV: Mental Health Care
Chapter 20. Brief Treatment: Community Mental Health
Chapter 21. "Would You Abandon Your Child?"An Inpatient Psychiatric Staff Confront Confront Change, a Difficult Case--and Each Other
Chapter 22. Placement of a Developmentally Disabled Man
Chapter 23. A Transitional Residence for the Mentally Ill: To Achieve Independent Living
Chapter 24. Intensive Case Management for People with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness
Chapter 25. He's Schizophrenic and the System Is Not Helping: Reflections of a Troubled Parent and Professional
Chapter 26. Children's Intensive Case Management in an Urban Community Mental Health Center
Chapter 27. Mental Health Care in a Combat Environment: The Application of Small Unit Stress Debriefings
Chapter 28. A Woman Addresses Her Recurrent Depression in Psychotherapy: Private Practice
Part V: Care for the Frail Elderly and Hospice Care
Chapter 29. Hospital-Based Case Management for the Frail Elderly
Chapter 30. Home Care
Chapter 31. A Support Group in a Home for the Elderly
Chapter 32. Alzheimer's Disease: Intervention in a Nursing Home Environment
Chapter 33. Hospice Care for a Widowed Mother of Six Children Index Reference Notes Included