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Palliative care, social work, and service users : making life possible / Peter Beresford, Lesley Adshead, and Suzy Croft ; foreword by Dorothy Rowe.

Title
  1. Palliative care, social work, and service users : making life possible / Peter Beresford, Lesley Adshead, and Suzy Croft ; foreword by Dorothy Rowe.
Published by
  1. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
Author
  1. Beresford, Peter

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Additional authors
  1. Adshead, Lesley, 1953-
  2. Croft, Suzy
Description
  1. 268 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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 and 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Care of the sick
  2. Hospice Care
  3. Palliative Care
  4. Palliative treatment
  5. Social Work
  6. Social work with the terminally ill
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-260) and indexes.
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