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Explore the in-hospital evolution of social work with HIV/AIDS patients!
A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals: A Daring Response to an Epidemic presents first-hand historical perspectives from frontline hospital social workers who cared for HIV/AIDS patients during the epidemic's beginning in the early 1980s. Contributors recount personal and clinical experiences with patients, families, significant others, bureaucracies, and systems during a time of fear, challenge, and extreme caution. Their experiences illustrate the transformation of social work as the development of new programs and treatments increased the lifespan of HIV/AIDS patients.
A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals portrays the nature of human suffering and teaches how clients deal with adversity and overcome devastating obstacles. At the same time this book, which, while nonfiction, reads like a novel, opens a window into the world of social work providers working with an illness once considered taboo (and now referred to as simply chronic).
A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals provides you with an easy-to-understand medical overview of adult and pediatric infectious diseases that often accompany HIV/AIDS and examines:
the evolution of social work with hospitalized patients during the first twenty years of the pandemic
the important roles of social workers in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and South Carolina
challenges that resulted from improved medications and longer life expectancy
the status of current HIV/AIDS care programs
the development of HIV/AIDS case management in emergency room settings
the benefits of developing custody planning programs for HIV-infected families
the challenges of working with perinatally infected adolescents
With case studies and thoughtful analysis of the history of city, state, and national case management responses to the AIDS crisis, A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals is a valuable book for educators, students, historians, beginning mental health practitioners, social workers, case managers, substance abuse counselors, and anyone interested in stories of human courage. Make it part of your collection today!
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Medical Overview
Chapter 1. An Adult Infectious Disease Doctor's Encounter with HIV/AIDS (Alan Berkman)
Chapter 2. A Pediatrician's Encounter with HIV/AIDS
Section II: Uncharted Territory
Chapter 3. Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Metropolitan New York
Chapter 4. The Emergence of Social Workers in the AIDS Epidemic: SWANSocial Work AIDS Network, San Francisco
The Emergence of SWAN
The Growth of SWAN
The Politicalization of SWAN
Chapter 5. The South Carolina Experience
Organizational Genesis
Organizational Practice and Culture
Daily Life in an Early ASO
Organizational Challenges
The Past Is Present
Family Secrets
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Social Work in HIV Care: A Labor of Love in Philadelphia
Chapter 7. The New York State Response: Case Management for Persons Living with HIV and AIDS
Development of COBRA Community Follow-Up
Measuring Case Management Outcomes
The New Era of Managed Care
The Future of Case Management in New York State
Chapter 8. The New York City Division of AIDS Services
Background
The Model
The Program
The Staff
The Clients
Housing
Change
Chapter 9. A Case of Serendipity: A Brief History of the Early Years of the Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS
Introduction
Can This Idea Work?
The Conference Becomes a Reality
Can This Conference Continue?
A Look at 1992 to the Present
Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 10. Motivating the System from Within
Section III: The Heyday
Chapter 11. From Medical Social Work to the Constant Object: The Long and Winding Road
Chapter 12. You Cannot Make This Stuff Up
Chapter 13. Rethinking Group ProcessOr Do We?
Chapter 14. HIV Support Groups in a Hospital Setting
Group Formation
Group Facilitation
Group Themes and Issues
Chapter 15. Group Intervention in the Early Days of the GRID Epidemic: A Reflection of One Social Worker's Personal Experience
Introduction
Common Emotional Reactions
Group Intervention
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Chapter 16. The Missing Support Group: Interventions with AIDS Patients
The Existing Groups
Program Expansion
Group Expansion
The Absence of Need
Chapter 17. Twenty Years of the Epidemic: A Social Work Administrator's Personal Perspective
1981 to 1985The Crisis to Be, Still Unknown (3,500 Cases Worldwide by 1983)
1985 to 1995A Decade of Hope (10,000 AIDS Cases in the United States in 1985)
1995 to the PresentLiving with Reality and Coping with New Challenges (500,000 AIDS Cases in the United States in 1995)
Chapter 18. Supervising Pediatric HIV/AIDS Case Managers: Lessons Learned
Introduction
Background
The Supervisory Model
Conclusions
Chapter 19. Social Work with Hospitalized AIDS Patients: Observations from the Front Line of an Inner-City Hospital
Harper Model: Responses and Vignettes
A Model of Hospital AIDS Work
Conclusion
Section IV: The Decline/The FutureWhat Does It Look Like?
Chapter 20. Social Work, New York State AIDS Centers, and Special Needs Plans
Chapter 21. HIV/AIDS and Social Work Practice in Rural North Carolina: A Retrospective Account
Introduction
Community and Health Care Provider Reactions
Practice Issues
Perspectives on Support Resources
Professional Awareness and Future Practice Considerations
Chapter 22. Hospital Social Work with HIV/AIDS Patients to 1995: Death, Dying, Layoffs, and Managed Care
Chapter 23. Acute Care: Personal Reflections of Providing Social Work Interventions to Patients with HIV/AIDS
Chapter 24. Social Work in an Interdisciplinary
