This book examines many of the predominant issues in the field of social work in mental health and substance abuse today, including incarceration of drug abusers, methadone treatment for heroin users, substance abuse among sex workers, how parental smoking affects children's attitudes, binge drinking, depression and its relation to sociodemographic factors, help for homeless drug abusers, and more.

CONTENTS: Performance Measurement for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders • Methamphetamine Use and Rates of Incarceration Among Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting • Medication Management and Practices in Prison for People with Mental Health Problems • Estimating Incidence Trends in Regular Heroin Use in 26 Regions of Switzerland Using Methadone Treatment Data • Substance Abuse, Treatment Needs and Access Among Female Sex Workers and Non-Sex Workers in Pretoria, South Africa • How Stigma Limits the Options of Female Drug Users After Release from Jail • Evidence for Habitual and Goal-Directed Behavior Following Devaluation of Cocaine • Conflict and User Involvement in Drug Misuse Treatment Decision-Making • Deficits in Implicit Attention to Social Signals in Schizophrenia and High Risk Groups:Behavioral Evidence from a New Illusion • The Moderating Role of Parental Smoking on Their Children's Attitudes Toward Smoking Among a Predominantly Minority Sample • Women's Childhood and Adult Adverse Experiences, Mental Health, and Binge Drinking • Relation Between Depression and Sociodemographic Factors • Satisfaction with Life and Opioid Dependence • Can Playing the Computer Game "Tetris" Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? • more • Index

Social Work in Public Health and Hospitals deals with a variety of issues on social work in hospital settings and public policy issues. Included are chapters on hospital stays for the elderly, identifying postnatal depression during well-child visits, breast-feeding and awareness of health recommendations, maternal health services in Nigeria, children living with parents with HIV and AIDS, patients' rights in hospitals, harm reduction in hospitals, and more. In addition to hospitals, the book looks at public health services at rural and community clinics, at university hospitals, and at doctors' offices.

CONTENTS: Direct Costs Associated with the Appropriateness of Hospital Stay in Elderly Population • The Use of Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to Identify Postnatal Depression Symptoms at Well Child Visit • Financial Access to Health Care in Karuzi, Burundi:A Household-Survey-Based Performance Evaluation • Intention to Breastfeed and Awareness of Health Recommendations:Findings from First-Time Mothers in Southwest Sydney, Australia • An Exploration of How Clinician Attitudes and Beliefs Influence the Implementation of Lifestyle Risk Factor Management in Primary Healthcare:A Grounded Theory Study • Prevalence and Risk Factors for Stunting and Severe Stunting Among Under-Fives in North Maluku Province of Indonesia • Determinants of Use of Maternal Health Services in Nigeria—Looking Beyond Individual and Household Factors • "I Washed and Fed My Mother Before Going to School:" Understanding the Psychosocial Well-Being of Children Providing Chronic Care for Adults Affected by HIV/AIDS in Western Kenya • Three Methods to Monitor Utilization of Healthcare Services by the Poor • Association Between Community Health Center and Rural Health Clinic Presence and County-Level Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions • more • Index