The field of medical social work is an area of social work that
many students find appealing, as it presents them with an
opportunity to experience a wide range of situations, patients, and
challenges within a concentrated time and location. And while many
schools of social work offer a variety of courses on health care
issues, hospital work, and social work in health care settings,
most of the literature in the field has focused on either the
political, economic and social issues involved in the work, or
alternatively on the how-to aspects of the field. Joan Beder, a
Brunner-Routledge author who has enjoyed success in both academia
and clinical practice, recently noted an apparent lack of empirical
discussion of the actual - as opposed to the theoretical, idealized
- role and real day-to-day functioning of the medical social
worker. Through her own work in medical settings and her classroom
experience with texts, the author has seen a need for a unique
supplemental text that would also be of use to practicing medical
social workers.
The result is this proposed book, which begins by detailing the
history of the field in the US and abroad, and brings the reader
up-to-date through the impacts of managed care and recent hospital
reforms. Chapters will focus on social work in specific units of
health care, such as the burn unit, dialysis unit, pediatric AIDS
unit, hospice, surgical unit, and oncology unit. The bulk of the
text will be centered on a series of interviews of practicing
social workers in these different areas, based on a standard set of
questions and given by the author. The author intends to interview
social workers from both urban and rural settings, as well as
hospitalsand institutions of differing sizes and coverage areas.
The responses to these survey questions will be collated and
discussed within each chapter, so that large issues can be
addressed, while specific advice and information relevant to work
within the smaller units will be easily accessible to the reader.
These "voices" from people in the field will orient the reader with
first-hand experiences, while discussions of practice principles,
policy considerations, and theoretical treatments will provide each
chapter with a unique blend of theory and practice. Medical social
work is a field with international applications, and while
significant differences between national health care systems exist,
a unique text such as this should have world-wide appeal.
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