Table of Contents

Author biographies

List of figures and tables

Preface - Melissa Petrakis

PART I: WHAT IS HEALTH SOCIAL WORK? ROLE, VALUES AND PRINCIPLES FOR PRACTICE

1. An introduction to health and health services practice, and the social determinants of health - Melissa Petrakis and Carrie Lethborg

2. Building the knowledge for practice base in health social work - Fiona McDermott

PART II: HEALTH PRACTICE AND PRACTICE CONTEXTS

3. Children, childhood illness and supporting the family: a health perspective - Rosemary Sheehan

4. Hospital-based trauma social work - Margaret Cowgill and Melissa Petrakis

5. The wellbeing of Australia's mothers - Lauren Wills

6. Women and domestic and family violence - Deborah Western

7. Early intervention in mental health: opportunities and challenges - Kate Day and Melissa Petrakis

8. The social worker's role within an adult mental health inter-professional collaborative team - Carmel Alakus and Melissa Petrakis

9. A foundation for dual diagnosis practice: wisdom, tools and resources - Kevan Myers, Simon Kroes and Melissa Petrakis

10. Forensic social work - Sarah Harvey

11. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities: re-imagining and re-orienting of the social work role - Sonia Posenelli, Michelle Gallagher Winters, Carrie Lethborg and Toni Mason

12. Oncology social work: from diagnosis, treatment for cancer, recovery and end of life care - Sue Gorman

13. Aged care: health, assessments, in-home care and residential care - Lisa Braddy and Mara Erhardt-Rumpe

PART III: POLITICISED ISSUES IN HEALTH PRACTICE

14. Social work practice and people living with disability - Nicole Edwards and Julie King

15. Refugee health - Kim Robinson

16. A Maori-informed approach to health social work - Amohia Boulton, Lynley Cvitanovic and Tracey Cropp

Index

About the Author

Dr Melissa Petrakis is Senior Lecturer at Monash University and Senior Research Fellow at St Vincent's Hospital (Melbourne), Mental Health Service. She co-ordinates units and lectures in social work practice in health and mental health and has published widely in this field.