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. In health care, the term case Management can refer to cost-conscious telephone interventions to monitor medical services or to discharge planning from an inpatient facility.

social workers interested in environmental concerns became interested in community organizing. The term social casework, reflecting an integrative perspective, became increasingly anachronistic and was largely abandoned by the social work profession. Even the esteemed journal Social Casework, founded in 1920 by Mary Richmond,

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