Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work

A Guide for Clinical Practice with Women, Infants, and Families

Regina F Lind, Debra H Bachman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781136372070
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants. This book covers the knowledge bases of obstetric and neonatal medicine--and other specialized topics--as applied to social work practice that you'll need to be familiar with in order to provide effective care for mother and child. As a guide for new workers, students, and experienced social workers in perinatal settings, Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work is the only book to approach the topic with the necessary overview of medical information. Beyond the history and basics of perinatal and medical social work, you'll also learn about such related topics as:

• adoption
• postpartum depression
• mental illness
• diabetesOften, students and new workers find themselves overwhelmed with the medical information and technology they must understand in order to function in perinatal social work. The literature that guides the social work practice is shared with medicine, nursing, public health, and others, and the busy student and new worker do not have the time to gather a body of literature to use as a reference. Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work provides such a reference and illustrates the depth and breadth the field of perinatal social work has come to encompass today. Perinatal social workers are no longer employed only in hospital settings, but work in AIDS clinics, public health settings, ethics centers, and private practice. Whatever the setting, the goal of perinatal social work is still the same--to maximize the potential of every infant and every family. This book helps you achieve that goal.

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by t indicate tables.

Abortion

elective, 143

therapeutic, 143

Abrahamse, A.F., 87

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), in women, 127–134. See also Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, in women

Adolescents, childbearing

biopsychosocial implications of, 87

epidemiology, 86–87

health consequences of, 88

implications for social work practice, 89–90

perinatal social work with, 85–97

clinical case management, 90–91

enhancing involvement in, 92–93

family mobilization, 91

following birth of healthy baby, 93

following birth of preterm or sick newborn, 93–95

inclusion of baby’s father, 92

prevalence of, 85

psychological/developmental implications of, 89

social implications of, 88–89

Adoption, birth father’s role in, in perinatal setting, 153–163. See also Birth father, in adoption process

Adoption of Kelsey S., 160

Adoption of Michael H., 160

Advocate, social worker as, 30

Alcohol abuse, perinatal, 65–83. See also under Perinatal substance abuse

Ambivalence, in perinatal patients, 13

Amniocentesis, in prenatal testing, 49

Anatomic birth defects, prenatal diagnosis of, 51t, 52

Aneuploidies, prenatal diagnosis of, 50,51t

Anxiety

in families of NICU patients, 27

in perinatal patients, 11–12

Assessment, social worker’s role in, on perinatal unit, 13–15

Assisted reproductive technology

costs of, 42–43

failure of, 43–44

for infertility, 42–46

Autonomy, described, 79

“Baby blues,” 102

Baby Boy Janikova, 159

Beauchamp, T., 78–79

Beneficence, defined, 78

Bibring, G., 4

Biopsychosocial issues, adolescent childbearing and, 87

Birth defects, anatomic, prenatal diagnosis of, 51t, 52

Birth father

in adoption process

feelings toward birth mother, 156

implications for perinatal social workers, 161–162

role of, 153–163

defining of, 154–156

defined, 153–154

during labor and delivery, 156–158

legal rights of, 158–161

Boredom, in perinatal patients, 12

Caban v. Mohammed, 159

Campbell, J., 72–73

Causality, perinatal loss and, 147

Cervical dysplasia, in HIV-infected women, 129

Chapman, L.L., 157–158

Chasnoff, I., 71

Child welfare agency, social worker’s role with, 31

Child Welfare League of America, 74

Childbearing, adolescent, perinatal social work with, 85–97. See also Adolescents, chil...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Perinatal Social Work and the High Risk Obstetrics Patient
• Perinatal Social Work and the Family of the Newbom Intensive Care Infant
• Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology: The Role of the Perinatal Social Worker
• Counseling Prenatal Diagnosis Patients: The Role of the Social Worker
• The Role of the Social Worker in Perinatal Substance-Abuse
• Perinatal Social Work with Childbearing Adolescents
• Postpartum Depression: A Review for Perinatal Social Workers
• Parenting a Technology Assisted Infant: Coping with Occupational Stress
• The Profile of HIV Infection in Women: A Challenge to the Profession
• Social Policy Considerations in Perinatal Social Work
• Perinatal Loss: Considerations in Social Work Practice
• A Birth Father and Adoption in the Perinatal Setting
• Index