Section I: An Overview of Social Work Roles in Health Care: A Case for Generalist Practice
Chapter 1. An Overview of Social Work Practice in Health Care Settings – Rebecca Erickson and Gerald Erickson
Chapter 2: Social Work Practice Roles in Health Care: Daring to be Different – Michael J. Holosko
Chapter 3: Insights About Social Work Field Placements in a Teaching Hospital: Preparation for Generalist Practice – Sonia Busca
Section II: Hospital-Based Practice
Chapter 4: Social Work Practice with Myocardial Infarction Patients and Families in an Acute Care Hospital – Joanne Sulman and Godelieve Vergaeghe
Chapter 5: Social Work Practice with Infertility Patients in an In Vitro Fertilization Program – Sima K. Needleman
Chapter 6: The Role of the Social Worker in the Realm of HIV Disease – Peter Quick
Chapter 7: Perinatal Social Work Practice – Catherine J. Cameron, Randee J. Moir and Marlene L. Rees-Newton
Chapter 8: Social Work Practice with Childhood Cancer – David W. Adams
Chapter 9: Social Work Practice with Paediatric Bereavement Patients – Michael Bull
Chapter 10: Social Work Practice in Family Centred Airway Management – Jean M. Lawrence
Chapter 11: Social Work Practice with Ventilator-Assisted Patients – Linda B. Fischer
Chapter 12: Social Work Practice in a Women’s Health Care Centre – Deborah MacLean-Brine
Chapter 13: Social Work Practice with Domestic Violence in Hosptial Settings – Don Ebert and Shan Landry
Chapter 14: Social Work Practice in a Black Community-Based Teaching Hospital – Marvin D. Feit and Sheila D. Miller
Chapter 15: Social Work Practice in Hospital-Based Crisis Intervention – Robert J. Todd and Mary Webb
Chapter 16: Social Work Practice in Critical Care and Trauma Units – Irene Tiegs
Chapter 17: Social Work Practice with Plastic Surgery/Burn Patients — Clifford N. Levy
Chapter 18: Social Work Practice in a Psychiatric Ambulatory Care Setting – Sherrill Hershberg and Craig M. Posner
Chapter 19: Social Work Practice with Institutionalized Frail Elderly – Len Fabiano and Ron Martyn
Chapter 20: Social Work Practice on a Geriatric Consultation Team – Bernice Wilson
Chapter 21: Social Work Practice in Geriatric Assessment Units – Patricia MacKenzie
Chapter 22: Social Work Practice in Hospice Care – Nina Millett Fish
Chapter 23: Social Work Practice in Palliative Care – Margaret R. Rodway and Judith Blythe
Chapter 24: Social Work Practice with Organ Transplant Patients – M. Jane Bright
Chapter 25: Social Work Practice with Chronic Pain Management – Mario Spiler
Chapter 26: Social Work Practice in a Multi-disciplinary Physical Rehabilitation Setting – Carolynn Campbell, Zora Jackson and Libusa Jeglic
Chapter 27: Discharge Planning and the Role of the Social Worker – Mary Ciotti and Susan Watt
Chapter 28: Discharging Patients from an Acute Care Hospital – Margaret A. Dimond and Theresa Jansen-Santos
Section III: Community-Based Practice
Chapter 29: Social Work Practice with Family caregivers of Frail Older Persons – Ronald W. Toseland and Charles M. Rossiter
Chapter 30: Social Work Practice with Head Injured Persons – Sabine Huege and Michael J. Holosko
Chapter 31: Social Work Practice with Military Personnel in a Health Care Setting – Marvin D. Feit and Raymond D. McCoy
Chapter 32: Social Work Practice with Community-Based Dementia Care – Roberta Krakoff and Lucy Esralew
Chapter 33: Social Work Practice in a Community-Based Substance Abuse Program – Marvin D. Feit and Terence Mayes
Chapter 34: Social Work Practice in a Therapeutic Community Context – Neal Ruton and Tracey Foreman
Chapter 35: Community Social Work Practice: Health Promotion in Action – Judith Dunlop and Michael J. Holosko
Section IV: Postscript
Chapter 36: New Wave Social Work: Practice Roles for the 2990s and Beyond – Patricia A. Taylor