Social Work Health and Mental Health: Practice, Research and Programs

* Part I * Section 1: The Content of Practice * Introduction: Parts I and II * Globalization and Its Impact on Health and Mental Health Policy * Globalization and Social Policy * Health Care and Social Work Education in a Changing World * The Restructuring of Health and Mental Health Service Systems and Its Consequences * The Buck Stops Where? Contracting, Service Delivery and the Challenge to Provide Responsive Services * The Business Model and Social Work: A Conundrum for Social Work Practice * Social Work and Health Restructuring in Canada and Finland * Delivering Health Care Services in the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective * Health Problems and Long-Term Unemployment * Section 2: Research * Using Standardized Instruments in Practice Research * Use of Standardized Measures in Agency Based Research and Practice * Construction of a Global Assessment Scale of Family Function, Using a Questionnaire * Research Tools for Describing Health Social Work Practice and Client Characteristics * Development of the Workload Analysis Scale (WAS) for the Assessment and Rehabilitation Services of Ballarat Health Services * Discharge Planning for Complex Paediatric Cases * The Development of an Australian National Classification System for Social Work Practice in Health Care * A Classification System of Social Problems: Concepts and Influence on GPs' Registration of Problems * Part II * Section 3: Generic Practice Issues * Community Care in Practice: Social Work in Primary Health Care * A Body-Mind-Spirit Model in Health: An Eastern Approach * Resilient Children: What They Tell Us About Coping with Maltreatment * Keeping It in the Family: Caregiving in Australian-Greek Families * Retooling Social Work Practice for High Volume, Short Stay * It's Just Different in the Country: Postnatal Depression and Group Therapy in a Rural Setting * Part III * Section 1: Health and Medical Care * Introduction: Part III * Engaging in a Public Health Program with Populations That are the Traditional Targets of Social Work Intervention * Implementing a Community Intervention Program for Health Promotion * Resource Development to Enable the Use of Medical Treatment * Social Work Practice in the Donation of Human Tissue for Transplantation: Utilizing Social Work Values and Competencies to Achieve Effective Outcomes for Transplant Patients and Donor Families * Supporting the Patient in Coping with Problems * A Follow-Up Study of Women with Cancer: Their Psychosocial Well-Being and Close Relationships * Evaluating an Activity Intervention with Hemodialysis Patients in Israel * Social Support, Medication Compliance and HIV/AIDS * Addressing the Issue of Long-Term Care * The Mental Health Status and Long Term Care Needs of the Chinese Elderly in Hong Kong * Section 2: Multicultural Practice * Immigration * Stage-Specific and Culture-Specific Coping Strategies Used by Mainland Chinese Immigrants During Resettlement in Hong Kong: A Qualitative Analysis * Impact of Immigration on Health and Human Services: Florida's Experience * Language * Cross Cultural Research in Palliative Care * Section 3: Mental Health * The Workings of the System and System Change * Mental Health System Reform: A Multi Country Comparison * Evaluating System Fit with Need * Mental Health Service Utilization Among the Arabs in Israel * Involuntary Return to a Psychiatric Emergency Service Within Twelve Months * Conjoint Multi-Disciplinary Assessment in a Community Mental Health Team: The Impact on the Social Work Role * The Changing Role of the Social Worker in the Mental Health System * Index * Reference Notes Included