Palliative care, social work, and service users : making life possible
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
1 online resource (268 pages)
9781846425738, 9781280929533, 1846425735, 1280929537
122570000
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