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TERI ARTHUR BROWNE, MSW, LSW, has been a nephrology social worker since 1995. She chairs the Council of Nephrology Social Workers, and coedits The Journal of Nephrology Social Work. She is a doctoral fellow at the School of Social Service Administration of The University of Chicago where she teaches in the health care concentration

Acknowledgments.

Editor Biographies.

Contributors.

Introduction (Sarah Gehlert).

PARTI: THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK IN HEALTH CARE.

1 The Conceptual Underpinnings of Social Work in Health Care (Sarah Gehlert).

2 Social Work Roles and Health-Care Settings (Teri Arthur Browne).

3 Ethics and Social Work in Health Care (Jared Sparks).

4 Public Health and Social Work (Deborah R. Schild and Marjorie R. Sable).

5 Health Policy and Social Work (Julie S. Darnell and Edward F. Lawlor).

6 Community and Health (Christopher Masi).

PARTII: HEALTH SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: A SPECTRUM OF CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS.

7 Theories of Health Behavior (Sarah Gehlert).

8 Physical and Mental Health: Interactions, Assessment, and Intervention (Malitta Engstrom).

9 Communication in Health Care (Sarah Gehlert).

10 Religion, Spirituality, and Health (Kevin Burke).

11 Families, Health, and Illness (John S. Rolland and Allison Werner-Lin).

12 Human Sexuality and Physical Intimacy (Les Gallo-Silver).

13 Substance Use Problems in Health Social Work Practice (Colleen A. Mahoney, Malitta Engstrom, and Jeanne C. Marsh).

PART III: HEALTH SOCIAL WORK: SELECTED AREAS OF PRACTICE.

14 Social Work with Older Adults in Health-Care Settings (Sadhna Diwan and Shantha Balaswamy).

15 Social Work Practice and Disability Issues (Rebecca Brashler).

16 Nephrology Social Work (Teri Arthur Browne).

17 Oncology Social Work (Allison Werner-Lin and Nancee M. Biank).

18 Social Work and Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Heart Disease, and HIV/AIDS (Wendy Auslander and Stacey Freedenthal).

19 Social Work and Genetics (Deborah R. Schild, Susan Taylor-Brown, and Luba Djurdjinovic).

20 End-of-Life Care (Yvette Colón).

21 Pain Management and Palliative Care (Terry Altilio, Shirley Otis-Green, Susan Hedlund, and Iris Cohen Fineberg).

22 Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine in a Conventional Setting (Penny Block).

Afterword (Candyce S. Berger).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

"The Handbook of Health Social Work is a most valuable resource for social work practitioners... its importance as a readily available reference for students, practitioners and faculties in schools and existing health cares settings is obvious. [The Handbook] is an important and welcome addition to our contemporary social work literature."
—Phyllis Caroff and Helen Rehr (Journal of Social Work Education)