Days in the lives of social workers 58 professionals tell "real-life" stories from social work practice /
| Other Authors: | Grobman, Linda May,, Clark, Elizabeth J., 1944- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Harrisburg, PA :
White Hat Communications,
[2012]
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| Physical Description: |
443 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Edition: | 4th ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Social work in the ER
- Social work in the neonatal intensive care unit
- Remembering why I became a social worker: lessons learned on internal medicine
- Social work in an infertility clinic
- Working with pregnant women in public health
- Managing in managed care
- Social work in the commissioned corps
- Private practice with urban gay men: with a subspecialty in HIV/AIDS
- A very special nursing home in the South Bronx
- Pediatric HIV research
- Elementary school social work
- An inner-city high school
- Social work in a rural school district
- Urban child protective services
- A neighborhood youth center
- Play therapy and bullying
- Working with gay and lesbian youth
- Child welfare ombudsman
- Employee assistance programs
- Social work goes to summer camp
- Developmental disabilities
- "Us" becoming "them"
- Involuntary admission: a new worker's introduction to the "603"
- Partial hospitalization
- Social work in a clubhouse
- Life as a group home manager
- Disaster mental health services
- Dual diagnosis: substance abuse and mental health in an inpatient setting
- Social work in the Alaskan bush
- Adventure-based practice
- Private practice and the eclectic social worker
- An office to call my own: private practice in the lesbian community
- Prison substance abuse treatment
- A hard day's night: working with assaultive men in prison
- Residential treatment for adolescent sexual offenders
- Forensic social work: mitigating death penalty cases in a capital defense unit
- Victim services
- Social work with survivors of the Holocaust
- Nursing home social work
- Senior adult coordinator
- Hospice social work
- Home health social work
- Geriatric care management: a growing profession
- The daily life of NASW's executive director
- Life as an agency CEO
- Association management
- Family advocacy in the military
- Outreach to homeless veterans
- Life as a BSW educator
- A university counseling center
- Providing continuing education to social workers
- Consulting in Armenia
- Working with unaccompanied minors in Britain
- Working with Raskal gangs in the Highland of Papua New Guinea
- Working with Russian immigrants
- Community organizing for social change
- A day in the life of a policy practitioner
- Mucho gusto en conocerle (I'm pleased to meet you): working with migrant farm families.