Case Management for Community Practice

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Case Management for Commumity Practice provides the reader with the knowledge, approahces and tools to help case managers help a diverse range of client groups achieve their optimal quality of life and life goals. Case studies throughout show the practical application of theoretical approaches and emphasise the importance of collaboration within the formal service system, informal supports and the wider community.

Readership: Later year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Case Management as part of a Social Work, Human Services or Health or Allied Health degree or postgraduate diploma.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Elizabeth Moore, Lecturer in Social Work and Human Services and Course Co-ordinator of Social Welfare, Charles Sturt University, Australia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface

1: Origins, influences and challenges of contemporary case management

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF CASE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE
2: Systems diversity: definitions and archetypes
3: Practice values, principles and ethics
4: Theories that inform practice: toward client agency and autonomy
5: Practice functions
6: Advocacy: an overarching approach

PART TWO: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE: COMMUNITIES, CARERS AND ORGANISATIONS
7: Community integrated practice: lessons from rural practice from rural practice
8: Engaging with communities' informal care and welfare practices
9: The evolution of person-centered planning in supporting people with a developmental disability
10: The organisational context of case management practice
11: Case manager standards and skills development

PART THREE: PRACTICE CONTEXTS: APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES
12: Emergent models of health care coordination: meeting individual and community needs
13: Home and community care
14: Case management and community mental health
15: Don't forget the kids: working with families affected by parental mental illness
16: Defining the 'case' to be 'managed' in services for children at risk of harm and their families
17: Case management within employment and rehabilitation mandates
18: Uses and abuses of case management: a critical analysis of contemporary practices