Soundings: Explorations of Social Work in a Changing Health Care Environment - Softcover

Donnelly, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967277531 ISBN 13: 9780967277530

Publisher: South Garden Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Soundings offers a series of essays about the challenges facing social work in the continuously changing context of health care provisioning from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Chapter I, “Society Page,” demonstrates through a series of essays, theoretical and practice attempts to cope with these changes. Chapter II, “Tools for Professional Leadership,” presents attempts to make operational the concepts developed in the first chapter. The therapeutic functions of social work in discharge planning and long-term care are framed with clear emphasis on the task within a clearly defined therapeutic function. A social work perspective on organizational ethics is also addressed. Suggestions for documentation and data collection are included.

About this title

About the Author:

Over his thirty-five-year career in social work, James Donnelly, DSW, LCSW, has held clinical, supervisory, and administrative social work positions in both medical and mental health settings. He was the director of social work at Goldwater Memorial Hospital and Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, both in New York City. He was president of the Metropolitan New York chapter of the Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care, and is a member of the NASW Pioneers. He is the author of Love and Knowledge: The Quest for Personal Meaning, a book about psychotherapy and the art of living, and Ramifications: A Social Work Exploration of Therapeutic Space. Donnelly maintains a psychotherapy practice in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: South Garden Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0967277531
• ISBN 13: 9780967277530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236