(1 reviews) Author: Marcia Egan ISBN : 9780789035608 New from $35.20 Format: PDFSocial work practice in health care requires that practitioners be prepared to meet the interdisciplinary and managed care demands for best practices in efficacious, time-limited, and culturally competent interventions, with populations across the lifespan. This text is designed to meet that demand for evidence-based practice.
The result of extensive systematic reviews, Evidence-based Interventions for Social Work in Health Care provides substantive in-depth knowledge of empirically based interventions specifically for major and emerging medical diseases and health conditions particularly affecting diverse, at-risk and marginalized populations. It outlines best practices for the psychosocial problems associated with the emerging chronic and major health conditions of the twenty-first century, such as paediatric asthma, Type I and Type II diabetes, obesity, paediatric cancer, and adult hypertension. The interventions discussed are detailed in terms of for whom, by whom, when, under what circumstances, for what duration, and for what level client system the intervention has proven most effective.
This invaluable text is suitable for students and will be a useful reference for practitioners specialising in social work in health settings.
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 22, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 078903560X
- ISBN-13: 978-0789035608
- Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 6.3 x 9 inches
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Evidence-based Interventions for Social Work in Health Care PDF
This is perhaps the most evidence-based social work in health care text one could locate at this point in time and is groundbreaking in this regard. There is a two page introduction followed by a total of five chapters, as follows: Asthma in Childhood and Adolescence, Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity, and Pediatric Cancer. Each chapter is followed by a Glossary and Scenario and Questions for Reflection and Discussion. There is a brief Afterword and a very informative Appendix. In fact, I'd advise reading the Appendix as a Foreward. This book is of interest primarily to those in the health care field, as the title reflects. Five stars would have been given had the book included more illnesses, for example a mental health condition, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, adult chronic respiratory disease, a surgical disease and resultant amputation and so on. A very good text that provides clinically relevant, up-to-date information that just leaves me desiring more.By Gerry
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