Provides an overview of the medical and psychosocial aspects of heart transplantation, highlighting the role of social work interventions in achieving optimal psychosocial functioning.
Patients and their families experience heart transplantation as an awesome, demanding, and stressful journey. The author presents an overview of medical and psychosocial aspects of heart transplantation, with a focus on the program at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center Social work interventions help patients and families to achieve optimal psychosocial functioning before and after transplantation.
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Lee H. Suszycki (1988) studied this question.
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