Humanistic approaches to health care: focus on social work
- Editor:
- BERKOWITZ Norma
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Looks at social work practice in health care in the United States and internationally. Stresses the caring and humanising role of the social worker when working with those who have health problems. Includes chapters on: alcohol abuse; social work practice in hospitals; oncology social work and palliative care in the United States; primary health care and its relation to generalist practice and to public health; social work and family planning in Russia; HIV and AIDS; community mental health services in Slovenia; social work practice with refugee populations in Hungary; disabled people; empowerment; and preparing social workers for practice in health care.
- Subject terms:
- HIV AIDS, hospital social work, medical social work, medical social workers, palliative care, physical disabilities, social work education, social work methods, social work theories, social workers, alcohol misuse, cancer, community mental health services, contraception, empowerment, family planning, health care;
- Location(s):
- Hungary, Russia, Slovenia, United States
- ISBN print:
- 018421