Social Work Practice and End-Of-Life Care

ISBN-13: 9780367592905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 118 str.

Heather Richardson; Gillian Chowns

Opis

This book describes the practice of social work in supporting people at the end of life; it considers the nature and experience of living and dying in contemporary society; and it asks how social workers can best support people who are dying or bereaved.

Spis treści

Introduction: Social Work Practice in End of Life Care  1. A Good Death?  2. Psychosocial Perspectives on End of Life Care  3. ‘Living to Tell the Tale’ – Narratives of Surviving Cancer and the Social Work Response  4. End of Life Care: Everybody’s Business  5. Integrating Early Multi-disciplinary Advance Care Planning into Core Social Work Practice: Social Workers’ Bread and Butter  6. Working with Communities to Develop Resilience in End of Life and Bereavement Care: Hospices, Schools and Health Promoting Palliative Care  7. Does the Culture of Modern Day Palliative Care Social Work Leave Room for Leadership?  8. Schwartz Rounds® – Promoting Compassionate Care and Healthy Organisations

O autorze

Heather Richardson is Joint Chief Executive of St Christopher’s Hospice, London, and Honorary Professor in Palliative Care at Lancaster University, UK. She is a nurse, and has held clinical, managerial and leadership roles in hospice/palliative care over the last thirty years. Her PhD focused on people’s experience of day hospice.

Gillian Chowns is a social worker by profession, and has practised, lectured and researched in palliative care. Her PhD examined the experience of children living with the life-threatening illness of a parent. She is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Palliative Care Works, a charity offering education, training and mentoring in resource-poor settings.