This new book explores a variety of physical, mental, and lifestyle challenges faced by community populations, including homelessness, community health promotion, nutrition intervention, smoking trends among certain populations, mental health issues among different age and gender groups, substance abuse, domestic violence, contraception, and more. Studies in the book cover a number of important health issues, such as promoting chlamydia screening, class-based nutrition education, exercise and physical activity among children and adults, mental health problems, postpartum depression among women, factors influencing cognition, intimate partner violence, contraception methods, and more.

CONTENTS: Pathways into Homelessness:Recently Homeless Adults Problems and Service Use Before and After Becoming Homeless in Amsterdam • Promoting Chlamydia Screening with Posters and Leaflets in General Practice— A Qualitative Study • Evaluation of Effectiveness of Class-Based Nutrition Intervention on Changes in Soft Drink and Milk Consumption Among Young Adults • Smoking Prevalence Trends in Indigenous Australians, 1994-2004:A Typical Rather than an Exceptional Epidemic • Collecting Household Water Usage Data:Telephone Questionnaire or Diary? • Development of Scales to Assess Children's Perceptions of Friend and Parental Influences on Physical Activity • Preliminary Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Association Between Socio-Environmental Factors and Suicide • Cycling and Walking to Work in New Zealand, 1991-2006:Regional and Individual Differences, and Pointers to Effective Interventions • Adolescent-Parent Interactions and Attitudes Around Screen Time and Sugary Drink Consumption:A Qualitative Study • Women with Postpartum Depression:"My Husband" Stories • Challenges at Work and Financial Rewards to Stimulate Longer Workforce Participation • Worry as a Window into the Lives of People Who Use Injection Drugs:A Factor Analysis Approach • Effect of Sunlight Exposure on Cognitive Function Among Depressed and Non-Depressed Participants:A REGARDS Cross-Sectional Study • Safe Using Messages May Not Be Enough to Promote Behaviour Change Amongst Injecting Drug Users Who Are Ambivalent or Indifferent Towards Death • Factors Associated with Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence Against Women:A Comparative Analysis of 17 Sub-Saharan Countries • Psychological Well-being, Physical Impairments and Rural Aging in a Developing Country Setting • Use of Modern Contraception by the Poor Is Falling Behind • Index

Social work in geriatric services deals with the care of the elderly in many facets. This new book addresses many of the important topics in social work with the elderly, including the prevalence of chronic disease in the elderly, conducting research with older people, cognitive functioning and social integration, exercise for the elderly, suicide and depression in the elderly, smoking cessation for elderly clients, health screening, and more.

CONTENTS: Chronic Disease Prevalence and Care Among the Elderly in Urban and Rural Beijing, China • Challenges to Conducting Research with Older People Living in Nursing Homes • Association Between Subjective Memory Complaints and Health Care Utilisation:A Three-Year Follow Up • Cognitive Function, Social Integration and Mortality in a U.S. National Cohort Study of Older Adults • Magnitude of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Germany Among Older Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder • Social Vulnerability, Frailty and Mortality in Elderly People • Impact of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults • Social Participation and Independence in Activities of Daily Living:A Cross Sectional Study • Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority • Are Sedatives and Hypnotics Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide in the Elderly? • Mental Rotation of Faces in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease • Preventing Falls in Older Multifocal Glasses Wearers by Providing Single-Lens Distance Glasses:The Protocol for the VISIBLE Randomized Controlled Trial • Emotional Stress as a Trigger of Falls Leading to Hip or Pelvic Fracture—A Case-Crossover Study Among Elderly People • Health Status Transitions in Community-Living Elderly with Complex Care Needs:A Latent Class Approach • Effectiveness of a Mobile Smoking Cessation Service in Reaching Elderly Smokers and Predictors of Quitting • Discomfort and Agitation in Older Adults with Dementia • Factors Influencing Elderly Women's Mammography Screening Decisions • Do Social Networks Affect the Use of Residential Aged Care Among Older Australians? • more • Index

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