Overview
- Re-examines lens of physical illness within healthcare social work using a common frame to focus on psychological impact
- Includes examinations of social justice and bereavement on each illness or injury, as well as the authors' reflections
- Builds critical thinking skills on clinical social work practice both within a specific illness and between illnesses
Part of the book series: Essential Clinical Social Work Series (ECSWS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- healthcare social work
- hospital social worker
- clinical social work
- social work practice in healthcare settings
- psychosocial care
- patient-centered
- caregiver support
- emotional impact of illness
- overall well-being
- comprehensive care
- serious illness
- social work education
- chronic illness
- health crisis
- pandemic
- medical social work
About this book
This book examines the complexities of clinical social work practice in healthcare today. It identifies many of the psychological, social, emotional and spiritual aspects of physical illness in adults. The approach draws on theories from trauma, crisis intervention and supportive counseling, as well as empirical literature from other healthcare fields. Recognizing that social work roles in healthcare range from short-term or crisis-oriented interventions to ongoing, depth-oriented relationships, the authors develop clinical assessment and intervention useful for social workers in various healthcare settings.
By utilizing a common frame of clinical analysis, social workers can deepen their critical thinking skills in examining the impacts of specific illnesses and injuries on coping and wellbeing. Each chapter includes an analysis of the psychosocial impacts of the given medical condition across the following spectrums:
- illness or injury (by onset, course, outcome, and degree of incapacitation)
- relationship between nature of illness, and emotional and psychosocial functioning
- common clinical issues, and impacts of historical and current trauma
- end-of-life and bereavement
- social justice
- the authors’ reflections on practice
The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare is an essential guide for MSW students and social work professionals in healthcare.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Meredith Hemphill, LCSW-R, DSW (she/her/hers) works as a Clinical Director and Director of Community Relations at City Center Psychotherapy in New York City. She teaches within the social work programs at New York University and Columbia University, and is a graduate of the Zelda Foster certificate program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees in social work from New York University, and bachelor’s degree at Brown University. She has acted as a Guest Editor for the Clinical Social Work Journal for a special issue on social work in healthcare. Dr. Hemphill has contributed research and writing on the topic of hope-centered work with cancer patients, counseling during the COVID-19 pandemic, and teaching grief and loss in social work education. She founded The Feather Foundation, a non-profit organization for parents who have cancer.
Abigail Nathanson, LCSW, DSW, APHSW-C, ACS (she/her/hers) isa palliative social worker and the founder of a trauma therapy practice specializing in illness, caregiving and loss. She is a part-time faculty member at New York University, where she teaches Grief, Loss and Bereavement, and a faculty member of the Zelda Foster Studies Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care. She holds national board certification in palliative care, and has advanced training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, EMDR and Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy. She worked in healthcare for 15 years, and has presented in grand rounds and division trainings in major academic medical centers across the country and published on topics relating to trauma, healthcare, bereavement and death anxiety. Dr. Nathanson received both her master’s and doctoral degrees in social work from New York University, and is the 2022 award recipient of the Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Network’s Professional Educator of the Year.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Practice of Clinical Social Work in Healthcare
Editors: Meredith Hemphill, Abigail Nathanson
Series Title: Essential Clinical Social Work Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31650-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31649-4Published: 15 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31652-4Due: 15 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-31650-0Published: 14 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2520-162X
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1611
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Ethics and Values in Social Work, Health Care Management, Psychology, general