Health Care Issues for Social Care Staff

By Siobhan Maclean, Fern Basnett,
Dave Drayton-Green and Colin Blunn

This book discusses the central role that social care staff have in promoting the health and well being of service users, both in preventative work and in facilitating contact with health professionals. The book also provides social care staff with information about a number of specific medical conditions and highlights many of the implications for practice. One of the main themes of this publication is the importance of seeing each person as an individual whose identity must not be lost under a label. Contents include: Understanding the social care worker's role in healthcare; promoting healthy living; understanding medication; healthcare professionals; healthcare systems; understanding needs relating to specific conditions; anxiety and phobias; arthritis; autistic spectrum disorder; cerebral palsy; dementia; depression; diabetes; down's syndrome; eating disorders; epilepsy; HIV; MND; multiple sclerosis; muscular dystrophy; Parkinson's disease; personality disorders; schizophrenia; sensory impairment; spina bifida; strokes.   A5 spiral bound; 180 pages ISBN: 978-1-903575-24-6 £10

Frequently purchased together with:   Birth to Eighteen Years: Children and the Law Social Care and the Law: An NVQ Related Reference Guide Cultural Sensitivity in Social and Health Care Handbook of Theory for Social Care: Volume 1

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