Social Work in the Hospital Setting: Interventions

by César M. Garcés Carranza

The book is about social work interventions in the different units of the hospital, from the history of social work in the hospital setting to the different units of the hospital, including emergency room, medical intensive care units, and discharge planning. The book is important because it is about the different interventions of the social worker with patients and families.

136 pages, Paperback

First published May 7, 2013

About the author

Born and raised in Lima Peru, came to the United States in 1975 and entered Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, graduated in 1979 with BA degree in Psychology/Social Work. In 1983 entered Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work and graduated in 1985 (MSW). In 1997 entered Yeshiva University- WWSSW and graduated with a PhD in 2002. From 1985 to 1989 Worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker at The Puerto Rican Family Institute Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, Bronx, New York. from 1989 to 2013 worked at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center (ER/ICU), Bronx, New York. In private psychotherapy practice at Queens Neuropsychiatric Institute, Queens, New York from 1989 to present. At Community Counseling Mental Health Clinic, Long Island, New York, from 2010 to present. In 2002 published The Social Worker in the Emergency Room-Doctoral Dissertation (Yeshiva University), in 2018, published La Intervenion del Trabajador Social en el Centro Hospitalario-Retos para la Profesion. Also in 2018 published Intervenciones del Trabajador Social en el Hospital-Trabajo Social Hospitalario. In 2019 published Hospital Social Work Interventions. The author has also published several articles in English and Spanish about Social Work in Spain, Puerto Rico, and Latin America, as well as articles about Covid-19 Coronavirus. The author was a guest speaker in different International Social Work Conferences in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Colombia. In 2017, received the Award of Excellence in Social Work from the Organizacion Internacional de Trabajo Social (OITS) in Santiago-Chile.

Reviews

[Phillip]

Even though I previously interned at a hospital, I decided to read this book before starting a new job as a refresher. Unfortunately I found it lacking in many aspects and only minimally helpful. The author does not go into any detail regarding interventions that would be appropriate in a hospital, and there are very few examples demonstrating them. The author spends much more time about why social work is important in hospitals and how social workers need to advocate for themselves, but I am not sure how they would be able to do that without actually learning valuable skills. Finally, the book is not edited very well and there are several grammatical errors. The author's heart is in the right place, and as a short quick read I don't regret having picked it up, but I can really only see this useful as a introductory text perhaps to a student who is completely unfamiliar with what a hospital social worker does.

[Libby]

Needed few more details of social work interventions. helpful in my careermade me realize not only one who feels medical community sometimes misunderstands the value of social work.