This is a practical and accessible guide for those supervising case managers, personal care providers, and interns working in community services and long-term care of older persons. This updated edition expands its focus by offering the latest ideas and proven "practice wisdom" for handling many of the field's most common problems.



Autorentext

Ann Burack Weiss, Frances Coyle Brennan



Zusammenfassung
The growing population of aging Americans is bringing with it thousands of new workers into agencies serving the elderly each year. Now, the need for supervisors to administer and train staff in programs for older persons is increasing as well. This is a practical, "how-to" guide for the supervision of case managers, personal care providers, and interns working in community services and long-term care of ill or disabled older persons. This updated edition expands its focus by offering the latest, up-to-date ideas and proven "practice wisdom" for handling many of the field's most common problems. Filled with direct and composite case examples, this useful guide looks at concerns central to the changing field of practice. Part one gives an overview of the social work perspective. Parts two and three consider practice and administrative issues. Supervision of interns is covered in part four, and part five expands the scope of original edition by discussing the similarities and differences between home care and long-term care settings. Chapters include coverage of: dual emphasis on person and environment treatment with dignity and respect stages of helping, learning, and teaching negotiating the balance between dependence and independence styles of learning and teaching tuning in and anticipatory empathy assessment, case planning, on-going work, and termination empowerment, mediation, and advocacy the supervisor as "middle management" staff development the supervisory conference and recording requirements evaluation in group supervision home care residential care Gerontological Supervision is an invaluable resource for supervisors with or without MSWs and RNs, as well as case managers, personal care providers, interns, and educators and students in social work.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments, Part I: An Overview, Part II: Supervising Social Workers/Case Managers-Practice Skills, Part III: Supervising Social Workers/Case Managers-Administrative Issues, Part IV: Supervising Interns, Part V: Supervising Direct Care Workers, Afterword, Selected Bibliography, Index

Titel
Gerontological Supervision
Untertitel
A Social Work Perspective in Case Management and Direct Care
EAN
9781136422478
ISBN
978-1-136-42247-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
13.05.2013
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.75 MB
Anzahl Seiten
180
Jahr
2013
Untertitel
Englisch