Palliative care, social work, and service users: making life possible
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Main Author: Beresford, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-260) and indexes
Palliative care : a new perspective -- Becoming involved with palliative care -- Starting the palliative care social work journey -- What does the social worker do? -- What service users value most -- Working with difference -- Exploring outcomes : evaluating specialist palliative care social work -- Accessing specialist palliative care social work : a broader image problem? -- The problem of referral -- The nature, strengths and weaknesses of practice -- Theory and practice -- Specialist palliative care social work : a service in the shadows? -- Issues for the future
This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. It is the first to investigate specialist palliative care social work from this viewpoint. Drawing on new original research, the authors examine service users' experiences of social work and palliative care, tracking their journeys through it, exploring the care they receive and the effects of culture and difference through their first hand comments and ideas. The writers link service users' critiques with broader debates and developments in social work and palliative care and consider the implications of the book's findings for the formation of policy and practice and for future professional education and training. A groundbreaking text, "Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users" is of particular value to social work professionals, palliative care workers, educators, researchers and policy makers
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (268 p.)
ISBN:1280929537
1846425735
9781280929533
9781843104650
9781846425738

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