Social Group Work With Cardiac Patients

Develop a comprehensive understanding of cardiac disease process Cardiovascular problems are on the rise in America. Care providers need to understand the overall clinical and statistical significance these life-changing events have to patients and families alike. Social Group Work with Cardiac Patientsis a pragmatic guide that helps social workers and other psychosocial professionals develop and apply cardiac group work in a proactive and directed manner. This valuable text explores social group work with patients immediately recovering from a cardiac event--heart attack or failure, transplants, and implantable cardiac devices--as well the secondary effects of such events. Social Group Work with Cardiac Patientshelps social work and healthcare professionals develop a comprehensive understanding of the psychosocial aspect of cardiac care. In addition to examining the correlation between cardiac disease and depression and anxiety, looking at the emotional aspects of heart disease, and providing an overview of social work group care, this unique text details the four core social groups--cognitive-behavioral, psychoeducational, skill development, and interpersonal. Both fundamental and state-of-the-art, this comprehensive approach serves to enhance practice skills for immediate and constructive implementation. Important topics discussed in Social Group Work with Cardiac Patientsalso include: understanding adherence to cardiac health and psychosocial variables suggestions for using basic social groups and their development adherence issues associated with care stress management management of anger among patients holistic affects of cardiac disease on patients and families compliance, follow-up, and follow through substance abuse human sexuality differences between support groups and social group work models group leadership and co-leadership skills and many more! Social Group Work with Cardiac Patientsis an asset as a pragmatic, relevant guide for development and actuation of both general social groups and specialty group treatment. An accessible and practical stand-alone text, Social Group Work with Cardiac Patientsis ideal for mental health and substance abuse social workers, counselors, cardiac nurse specialists, cardiac treatment staff, and students of social work.

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
General Prevalence Heart Statistics	p. 3
General Cardiovascular Incidence Statistics	p. 4
Cardiac Mortality Statistics	p. 5
General Cardiac Risk Factor Statistics	p. 7
Statistical Cost Factors	p. 8
The Use of Social Group Work Models	p. 10
Social Group Interventions Currently Used in Cardiac Rehabilitation	p. 11
Conclusions	p. 14
Correlation Between Cardiovascular Disease and Depression, Anger, and Anxiety	p. 15
Depression	p. 15
Anxiety	p. 18
Anger	p. 22
Static and Dynamic Cardiovascular Disease Factor	p. 25
Conclusions	p. 27
Social Group Work and Cardiac Care	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Basic Social Groups for Use in Psychosocial Treatment of Cardiac Patients	p. 30
Social Group Development and Phase-Specific Tasks	p. 31
Stages of Social Group Treatment	p. 33
Social Group Worker Leadership, Techniques, and Concepts	p. 34
Rationale for Using Social Group Models with Cardiac Patients	p. 36
Conclusions	p. 38
Core Cardiac Social Work Group	p. 39
Introduction	p. 39
Cognitive-Behavioral Cardiac Group Therapy	p. 39
Psychoeducational Groups	p. 47
Skill-Development Groups	p. 53
Interpersonal (Social) Groups	p. 59
Conclusions	p. 67
Adherence Issues Associated with Cardiac Care: A Social Group Work Model	p. 69
Introduction	p. 69
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 69
Purpose/Goals	p. 70
Functional Characteristics	p. 71
Structural Characteristics	p. 72
Group Leadership Skills	p. 73
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 74
Use of the Group-As-a-Whole	p. 81
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 82
Conclusions	p. 83
Social Work Group for Heart Attack Patients	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
Risk Factors and Causes of Heart Attacks	p. 87
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 88
Purpose/Goals	p. 89
Functional Characteristics	p. 91
Structural Characteristics	p. 92
Group Leadership Skills	p. 93
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 94
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 95
Conclusions	p. 96
Social Group Work for Heart Failure Patients	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 99
Purpose/Goals	p. 100
Functional Characteristics	p. 100
Structural Characteristics	p. 101
Group Leadership Skills	p. 103
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 104
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 104
Conclusions	p. 105
Social Group Work with Patients with Implanted Cardiac Devices	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 109
Purpose/Goals	p. 110
Functional Characteristics	p. 110
Structural Characteristics	p. 111
Group Leadership Skills	p. 111
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 112
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 113
Conclusions	p. 113
Social Group Work with Heart Transplant Patients	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 117
Purpose/Goals	p. 118
Functional Characteristics	p. 120
Structural Characteristics	p. 121
Group Leadership Skills	p. 122
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 123
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 124
Conclusions	p. 125
Stress Management Social Work Group for Cardiac Patients	p. 127
Introduction	p. 127
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 127
Purpose/Goals	p. 129
Functional Characteristics	p. 130
Structural Aspects	p. 131
Group Leadership Skills	p. 139
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 139
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 140
Conclusions	p. 140
Social Group Management of Anger Among Cardiac Patients	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 144
Purpose/Goals	p. 145
Functional Characteristics	p. 146
Structural Characteristics	p. 147
Group Leadership Skills	p. 148
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 148
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 153
Conclusions	p. 155
Cardiac Patient Substance Abuse Group	p. 157
Introduction	p. 157
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 158
Most Problematic Drugs for Cardiac Patients	p. 158
Purpose/Goals	p. 164
Functional Characteristics	p. 164
Structural Characteristics	p. 165
Group Leadership Skills	p. 166
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 167
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 169
Conclusions	p. 170
Human Sexuality for Cardiac Patients	p. 171
Introduction	p. 171
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 172
Purpose/Goals	p. 174
Functional Characteristics	p. 175
Structural Characteristics	p. 175
Group Leadership Skills	p. 180
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 181
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 182
Conclusions	p. 183
Cardiac Support Groups	p. 185
Introduction	p. 185
Differences Between Support Groups and Social Group Work Models	p. 186
Rationale for Using the Social Group Work Model	p. 187
Purpose/Goals	p. 189
Functional Characteristics	p. 190
Structural Characteristics	p. 190
Group Leadership Skills	p. 192
Clinical Techniques Utilized	p. 192
Expected Clinical Benefits and Outcomes	p. 194
Conclusions	p. 195
Cardiac Social Groups and Coleadership	p. 197
Introduction	p. 197
Cardiac Coleadership: Background	p. 197
Advantages of Coleadership	p. 198
Disadvantages of Coleadership	p. 199
Social Group Work Coleadership Models	p. 200
Selection of a Social Group Work Coleader	p. 201
Managing Problems that Emerge in Social Group Work Coleadership	p. 202
Use of Social Group Work Coleadership with Cardiac Patients	p. 204
Conclusions	p. 204
Conclusions: Integration of Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 227
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