Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users
Making Life Possible
Peter Beresford, Lesley Adshead and Suzy Croft
Foreword by Dorothy Rowe
Paperback: £25.00 / $47.95
2006, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-465-0, BIC 2: JKSN
Foreword by Dorothy Rowe. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part One: The Background to Palliative Care Social Work. 1. Palliative Care: A new perspective. Part Two: What Service Users Say. 2. Becoming involved with palliative care. 3. Starting the palliative care social work journey. 4. What does the social worker do? 5. What service users value most. 6. Working with difference. 7. Exploring outcomes: evaluating specialist palliative care social work. Part Three: Developing the Discussion. 8. Accessing specialist palliative care social work: a broader image problem? 9. The problem of referral. 10. The nature, strengths and weaknesses of practice. 11. Theory and practice. 12. Specialist palliative care social work: a service in the shadows? 13. Issues for the future. Appendix 1: How we carried out the research. Appendix 2: The interview schedule. References. Subject index. Author index.
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