Cardiovascular problems are on the rise in America. Care providers need tounderstand the overall clinical and statistical significance these lifechanging events... » 

Cardiovascular problems are on the rise in America. Care providers need tounderstand the overall clinical and statistical significance these lifechanging events have to patients and families alike. Social Group Work withCardiac Patients is a pragmatic guide that helps social workers and otherpsychosocial professionals develop and apply cardiac group work in a proactiveand directed manner. This valuable text explores social group work withpatients immediately recovering from a cardiac event heart attack or failuretransplants and implantable cardiac devices as well the secondary effects ofsuch events. «