Clinical Case Management

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Published in Theory and Practice of Clinical Social Work (2nd Edition), J. Brandell, Ed., Columbia University Press, 2010. 2200 Clinical case Management Joel Kanter Over the past 30 years, case Management has become a ubiquitous intervention approach throughout the mental health and health care fields. Often poorly defined, case Management , perhaps a linguistic repackaging of social work or social casework, encompasses a wide range of environmental interventions with persons in need, including persons suffering from severe mental illness, substance abuse, and chronic medical conditions such as HIV, tuberculosis, and diabetes.

valued, interventions are holistically focused, and case managers recognize the interplay between psychological and environmental domains. Clinical case management can be

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