Product Description: The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work...read more

Product Description: Public health social work is an interdisciplinary, epidemiologically oriented approach to improving human health and well-being. About one quarter of all social workers in the United States currently work in medical or public health settings, a number that is expected to increase significantly in coming years...read more

Product Description: An ecological perspective. This work is a a classic in the field which has won praise from scholars. Gathered in this book are the author's aritcles in the subject. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Labor plays a neglected role in the operation of social programs. Those who deliver goods and services, and relationships necessary for social well-being, have not been adequately recognized and studied. Social policy has been considered solely as the interaction of values, goals, resources, and programs...read more