Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 50 Professionals Tell "Real Life" Stories from the Social Work Practice

, by GROBMAN LINDA MAY

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ISBN: 9780965365307 | 0965365301
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/1999

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Supplemental Materials

About the Editor/Contributors

Introduction

xix

Acknowledgments

xxi

PART 1---HEALTH CARE

Social Work in the ER

(10)

Managing a Hospital Social Work Department

(8)

Social Work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

(8)

Social Work in an Infertility Clinic

(6)

Working with Pregnant Women in Public Health

(4)

Managing in Managed Care

(6)

PART 2---HIV/AIDS

Private Practice With Urban Gay Men: With a Sub-specialty in HIV/AIDS

(8)

A Very Special Nursing Home in the South Bronx

(8)

Pediatric HIV Research

(6)

PART 3---SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK

Elementary School Social Work

(6)

An Inner-City High School

(6)

Social Work in a Rural School District

(6)

PART 4---CHILDREN YOUTH, AND FAMILIES

Urban Child Protective Services

(4)

Neighborhood Youth Center

(10)

Working with Gay and Lesbian Youth

(8)

Child Welfare Ombudsman

105

(6)

Family Advocacy in the Military

111

(6)

Employee Assistance Programs

117

(6)

PART 5---DISABILITIES

Developmental Disabilities

123

(8)

``Us'' Becoming ``Them''

131

(6)

PART 6---MENTAL HEALTH

Involuntary Admission: A New Worker's Introduction to the ``603''

137

(8)

Partial Hospitalization

145

(8)

Social Work in a Clubhouse

153

(6)

Life as a Group Home Manager

159

(6)

Disaster Mental Health Services

165

(6)

PART 7---SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse and Mental Health in an Inpatient Setting

171

(6)

Social Work in the Alaskan Bush

177

(4)

Adventure-Based Practice

181

(6)

PART 8---PRIVATE PRACTICE

Private Practice and the Eclectic Social Worker

187

(6)

An Office to Call My Own: Private Practice in the Lesbian Community

193

(4)

PART 9---CRIMINAL JUSTICE: WORKING WITH OFFENDERS AND VICTIMS

Prison Substance Abuse Treatment

197

(8)

A Hard Day's Night: Working with Assaultive Men in Prison

205

(6)

Residential Treatment for Adolescent Sexual Offenders

211

(6)

Forensic Social Work: Mitigating Death Penalty Cases in a Capital Defense Unit

217

(6)

Victim Services

223

(6)

PART 10---OLDER ADULTS AND THE END OF LIFE

Nursing Home Social Work

229

(6)

Senior Adult Coordinator

235

(4)

Hospice Social Work

239

(8)

Home Health Social Work

247

(6)

PART 11---MANAGEMENT

Life as an Agency CEO

253

(6)

Association Management

259

(6)

PART 12---HIGHER EDUCATION

Life as a BSW Educator

265

(8)

University Counseling Center

273

(8)

PART 13---INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK

Consulting in Armenia

281

(8)

Working with Raskal Gangs in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

289

(6)

PART 14---WORKING IN COMMUNITIES

Community Organizing for Social Change

295

(6)

It Takes a Village: Reclaiming our Youth Through Community Partnerships

301

(6)

A Day in the Life of a Policy Practitioner

307

(4)

Homeless Community Outreach

311

(8)

Mucho Gusto a Conocerle: Working with Migrant Farm Families

319

(6)

Appendix A: Organizations of Interest to Social Workers

325

(8)

Appendix B: Additional Reading

333

(14)

Appendix C: Internet Resources

347

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