Resuscitating health social work

Mental Health and Social Work

L.C.C. Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

Handbook of Mental Health Social Work

set up in 1943 by the Medical Officer of Health of the L.C.C. in connection with the re-organization of the Council's Mental Health Services, and was compiled primarily for the use of Psychiatric and Mental Deficiency Social Workers in the Public Health Department. The actual information it contains is .therefore related to the methods used by one particular Authority, but so varied are the top...

Knowledge development in health & social work.

This issue marks the beginning of my second year as editor-in-chief of Health & Social Work, and I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “knowledge development,” as in how much I’ve been learning about this complex social work profession and how we develop knowledge for it. Publishing a professional journal requires expertise, commitment, and coordination among dozens of people. Consequently, I a...

Public health, nursing and medical social work.