Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings

Summary

The recent sweeping changes in health care present social workers with a variety of new issues in ethics, practice, and policy. Social workers must deal with the human implications of such wider trends as lack of social support and multicultural poverty in urban areas, as well as the specifically medical issues of organ transplants, behavioral medicine, and managed care. Behavioral Social Work in Health Care Settings, the proceedings of the Seventh Doris Siegel Memorial Conference, presents a productive discussion of the key issues of ethics, policy, and practice that affect social workers and patients in this new environment.