Health Care Social Work: A Global Perspective - Hardcover

by Ren Winnett (Editor), Rich Furman (Editor), Douglas Epps (Editor)

Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadth and depth of the profession's health care contributions, legislative and policy influences upon practice, and implications for future practice and growth in different nations. Written by scholars and practitioners of health care social work from around the world, chapters encourage comparative analysis of distant health care social work practice as a means of supporting meaningful change on a local level and contributing to public health in a way that transcends boundaries and makes a difference globally. Readers will gain an opportunity to examine their assumptions about health care social work practice and reflect meaningfully upon less familiar techniques and approaches as a way of prompting problem-solving with an expanded frame of reference.

Author Biography

Ren Winnett, MSW, LICSW, is a licensed clinical social worker at Multicare Health System in Washington and a lecturer at the University of Washington Tacoma.

Rich Furman, PhD, MSW, is Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington Tacoma.

Douglas Epps, MSW, is a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

Greg Lamphear is a writer, editor, and teacher based in Asia.