The rapidly changing organization and financing of health care delivery in the United States compels social work to specify the elements of its health-related practice and to convincingly document its cost-effectiveness. This article highlights psychosocial research that supports the inclusion of psychosocial interventions as standard elements in health care practice and suggests action to be undertaken by social work to increase the empirical foundation of its practice and inform its health care policy advocacy with research-based knowledge. Three overlapping foci of health care-related psychosocial research of vital interest to social work are discussed: basic psychosocial research, psychosocial treatment and intervention research, and health services research.
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