Handbook of Health Social Work provides a comprehensive and evidence-based overview of contemporary social work practice in health care.

Table of Contents

• Foreword - Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• PART I FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE 1
• 1 Conceptual Underpinnings of Social Work in Health Care - Sarah Gehlert
• 2 Social Work Roles and Health-Care Settings - Teri Browne
• 3 Ethics and Social Work in Health Care - Jared Sparks
• 4 Public Health and Social Work - Marjorie R. Sable, Deborah R. Schild, and J. Aaron Hipp
• 5 Health Policy and Social Work - Julie S. Darnell and Edward F. Lawlor
• 6 Theories of Health Behavior - Sarah Gehlert and Sarah E. Bollinger
• PART II HEALTH SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: A SPECTRUM OF CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS
• 7 Community and Health - Christopher Masi
• 8 Physical and Mental Health: Interactions, Assessment, and Interventions - Malitta Engstrom
• 9 Social Work Practice and Disability Issues - Rebecca Brashler
• 10 Communication in Health Care - Sarah Gehlert
• 11 Religion, Spirituality, Health, and Social Work - Terry A. Wolfer
• 12 Developing a Shared Understanding: When Medical Patients Use Complementary and Alternative Approaches - Penny B. Block
• 13 Families, Health, and Illness - John S. Rolland
• 14 Human Sexual Health - Les Gallo-Silver and David S. Bimbi
• PART III HEALTH SOCIAL WORK: SELECTED AREAS OF PRACTICE
• 15 Social Work With Children and Adolescents With Medical Conditions - Nancy Boyd Webb and Rose A. Bartone
• 16 Social Work With Older Adults in Health-Care Settings - Sadhna Diwan, Shantha Balaswamy, and Sang E. Lee
• 17 Substance Use Problems in Health Social Work Practice - Malitta Engstrom, Colleen A. Mahoney, and Jeanne C. Marsh
• 18 Nephrology Social Work - Teri Browne
• 19 Oncology Social Work - Daniel S. Gardner and Allison Werner-Lin
• 20 Adherence and Mental Health Issues in Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Heart Disease, and HIV/AIDS - Wendy Auslander and Stacey Freedenthal
• 21 Social Work and Genetics - Allison Werner-Lin and Kate Reed
• 22 Pain Management and Palliative Care - Terry Altilio, Shirley Otis-Green, Susan Hedlund, and Iris Cohen Fineberg
• 23 End-of-Life Care - Yvette Colón
• Afterword - Candyce S. Berger
• About the Editors