Social Work: Strength-Based Practice in Hospital Case Management

Social workers and case managers work to identify resources to meet primary social welfare needs; at their core, they demonstrate key skills of assessing, brokering, engaging, partnering, risk managing, and problem solving. However, many case management managers and directors need help understanding the social work done in their departments as well as pinpointing what support or mentoring social workers need. Case management directors don't always know how to align social workers and RN case managers to maximize care coordination, discharge planning, and other case management functions for patients. To make matters worse, there is a lack of resources for managing social work programs and the activities that are shared between case managers and social workers.

Social Work: Strength-Based Practice in Hospital Case Management will help case managers manage their social work resources and staff members to achieve optimal results as well as maximize the social work being done in their departments. This resource will offer insight into the critical role, contributing value, and significant need of social workers within the healthcare continuum. It will address capitalizing not only on social work strengths but also on valuable tools used to demonstrate measurable care management outcomes.

This resource will also present the nursing staff's important perspective and offer suggestions on developing and supporting essential synergies between social work and multidisciplinary teams.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Components of Hospital Social Work
Chapter 3: Capitalizing on Social Work Skills and Strengths in Case Management
Chapter 4: Social Work Models in Healthcare
Chapter 5: Professional Development
Chapter 6: The Value of Social Work Practice
Chapter 7: Tying Social Work to Outcomes
Chapter 8: Partnerships and Department Collaborators
Chapter 9: Leadership Breaking the Social Work Glass Ceiling in Healthcare
Chapter 10: Widening the Landscape
Chapter 11: Conclusion

Who should read this book?

- Case managers
- Case management directors and managers
- Social workers
- Nurse directors and managers
- Care management directors and managers
- Nurses