Health & Wellness Resources for Social Workers

Cancer

• Cancer Center Social Worker: Christy Bullman interviews a staff social worker at the St. Agnes cancer center and comes out with valuable advice for social workers.
• Association of Oncology Social Work: Current news, resources and research for psychosocial care of cancer patients and families.
• How to help: A brief look at the areas of where an oncology social worker can be essential in the care of cancer patients.
• Social Work and Cancer Research: Explores the advancements needed in social work cancer research.
• National Association of Social Workers: Resources for social workers and their clients and families.

Family Genetics

• Genetics and Social Work: An examination of the lack of Biophilia in Social Work.
• Help Starts Here: Explores how social workers help couples that have suffered from pregnancy loss.
• Role in Genetics: A comprehensive look at a social workers role in genetic counseling.
• Social Work: A guide to how social workers can help children of parents with mental illness.
• Promoting Resiliency: A North Carolina social workers’ support guide to helping families overcome hardships.
• Genetic Counseling: Genetic counseling resources from UKMC.

Death & Dying

• Grief in Older Adults: An instructional module for recognizing and implementing interventions for older adults coping with loss.
• The School Social Worker: Social workers provide tips and advice for parents and teachers helping children cope with grief.
• Grief Strategies: Kenneth J. Doka explores strategies for social workers in supporting grief for patients with dementia.
• Healing Children’s Grief: Research for dealing with children’s grief.
• Research: The Center for Family Education and Resilience projects offers goals for promoting resilience in family matters.
• Social Work World: Death and dying and end of life care resources.

Disabilities

• Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation: The journal publishes papers that examine research and practice of disability issues in social work.
• Approaches to Disability: A social model in developing approaches to disability.
• British Journal of Social Work: Learning disability research in social work.
• Disabilities: An examination of social work literature in supporting social workers in their interactions with persons with disabilities.
• Disability Rights: A brief synopsis of social work in the period of disability rights.

Healthy Lifestyles

• Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles: A research article reviewing the benefits of extra learning opportunities in promoting a healthy lifestyle.
• Permanency Planning Guide: A guide to providing services for families.
• Depression: A guide to recognizing and treating depression.
• Health Lifestyle Choices: A counselor’s tool kit for promoting a healthy lifestyle.
• Healthy Women: A clinical guide to womens’ health.

HIV/AIDS

• Medication Compliance: Explores the relationship between social work and the support of patients with HIV.
• Procedures: A social work factsheet for working with patients who just received positive test results.
• Social Work Practice: Explores the practice of social work in a patient’s care.
• Latinos Living with HIV/AIDS: This paper examines the relationship of social work and Latinos living with HIV or AIDS.
• Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services: The journal focuses on social work advancements related to HIV care.

Living with Illness

• Life Threatening Illness: A social workers role in managing chronic illness.
• Cystic Fibrosis: A social workers role in cystic fibrosis medicine.
• Helping Patients: The American Association of Kidney Patients describes how social workers can be of help to kidney patients.
• Understanding Chronic Illness: A comprehensive article focusing on understanding chronic illness.
• Nephrology Social Workers: Guidelines for social workers in the clinical field of nephrology.

Pain

• Palliative Care: An organizational model for instituting a palliative program.
• Social Workers and Pain: This interview answers critical questions on the issues of social work in pain management.
• Interventions: Describes the psychosocial therapies for cancer pain.
• Pain Psychosocial: Research article on arthritis and the effect it may have on mental health.
• Psychosocial Consequences: Explores the connection between pain and psychosocial affects.

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