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Summary Maintaining good quality of life and health in face of living and/or aging with a chronic illness and/or disability can be challenging. The health care and related education and training of these individuals to become proactive partners in their ongoing care is the cornerstone of most chronic care models. Findings Social workers are not specifically mentioned in most chronic care models. However, as the health and social care processes can become complicated if the individual has barriers to partnering roles necessitated by chronic care models, a role for the social worker should be more clearly defined. Examination and application of the ecosystems perspective defines a clear role for social work to work collaboratively with other health professionals within a chronic care model. Application This paper explores how social work's ecosystems model can interface with Wagner's Chronic Care Model to fill the void that some individuals may experience in seeking and maintaining care to provide a useful framework to facilitate interventions within that model.

Many female service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan report experiencing some level of combat. However, female veterans may perceive combat and threat differently than their male counterparts. A feminist analysis of semistructured interviews was used to examine female veterans' ( N = 12) definitions of and experiences with combat. Participants described combat in three themes—experiencing combat-related events, witnessing combat-related events, and feeling threatened. Veterans also described a flexible definition of "combat veteran," comparing their experiences to others' to determine their status. This study has implications for practice, research, and policy on veterans, including broadening the assessment of combat.

This article examines the response of social services organizations and their workers to the COVID-19 pandemic in a northeastern U.S. state. Using an exploratory, cross-sectional survey design with a convenience sample ( N = 1472), we ask: (1) how did agencies and social service workers manage service disruptions associated with COVID-19; (2) how did social service workers perceive shifts in clients' needs; (3) how did social service workers experience the transition to remote interactions with clients; and (4) how did social service workers cope with COVID-related transitions and demands. Our findings tell a story of unprecedented crises alongside powerful attempts at adaptation, innovation, and resilience. Faced with extraordinary need among their clients, fears for their own health, and a breakdown of organizational and community functioning and guidance, social workers were able to learn and implement new technologies, adapt to increasing demands, manage new work-life boundaries, and find ways to address gaps in service while experiencing symptoms of burnout. The impact of supervisory and administrative fragmentation and communication breakdowns in the face of crisis put social workers in an untenable position despite surprising abilities to adapt, innovate, and manage their professional lives while under duress. Assuring better supervisory/administrative infrastructure to support workers as they deliver services during crises will help in future crises.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword to the Series -- New Foreword to the Series -- Preface -- Katsi Cook: "Research and Ceremonies and Healing Are an Empowerment Process"—a Mohawk Midwife Brings the Needs of Women into Environmental Health Research -- Mona Hanna-Attisha: Using Her Voice to Advocate for Environmental Justice in the City of Flint -- Katharine Dexter McCormick: Examining an Advocate's Path—Advancing Women's Reproductive Rights through Philanthropic Support for Oral Contraception Development -- Mary Engle Pennington: Transforming Food Safety with the Power of Persuasion and a Steadfast Commitment to Good Science and the Public's Health -- Florence Schorske Wald: Standing by Her Principles— Not by a Title—to Bring Hospice to the United States -- Virginia Apgar: Focusing on Prevention, She Structurally Transformed Maternal and Child Health for Generations -- Marilyn Gaston: Changing the Face of Health Care through Research, Public Service, and Community Health -- Jane E. Brody: Using Journalism to Impact Personal Health, One Column at a Time -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey: Leading the Nation to Adopt a Culture of Health -- Marilyn Tavenner: From Crashing Patients to Crashing Websites -- Ruth Williams-Brinkley: Facing Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of Community and Health Care -- Suerie Moon: Shaping the Governance of a Complex Global Health System to Achieve Equity -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index