Social Work Practice in Health

Melissa Petrakis is an associate professor in social work at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and director of SWITCH Research Group. She is a senior research fellow with St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne's Mental Health Service, and has over 30 years’ experience in public health and mental health service provision, management and research.

Part 1.What is Health Social Work? Role, Values, and Principals for Practice. 1.An Introduction to Health and Health Services Practice, and the Social Determinants of Health. 2.A Social Justice Perspective on the Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Dimensions of Health. 3.Neoliberal Capitalism and its Impact on Individual and Community Health: Implications for Critical Social Workers. 4.Compassion in Healthcare. Part 2.Health Practice and Practice Contexts. 5.Trauma-informed Practices in Health Social Work. 6.Mental Health Social Work: Recovery-oriented Practice Engagement and Collaboration. 7.Social Work Advanced Practice Skills in Mental Health. 8.Aged Care: Health, Assessments, In-Home Care and Residential Care. 9.Engaging with Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery: Dual Diagnosis Practice Principles and Tools. 10.Social Work Practice and People Living with Disability. Part 3.Reform Agendas. 11.Responding to Suicidal Distress in Social Work Practice: Challenges and Opportunities. 12.Social Work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Health: A Shared Learning, Trauma Informed, Cultural Safety Approach. 13.Bringing Whānau Ora to Health Social Work. 14.Social Work in Health: Considerations for Refugee Health. 15.Health Social Work in Regional, Rural and Remote Settings: Responding to the Intersection of Location, Disadvantaged Populations and Communities.