Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users

Brunel Univ., UK. Examines social work and palliative care from perspective of service users. Examine experiences of social work and palliative care, exploring care they receive and effects of culture and difference. Links critiques with debates and developments in social work and palliative care. For practitioners. Softcover.

Peter Beresford is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University.

Foreword	p. 9
Acknowledgements	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
The Background to Palliative Care Social Work	p. 19
Palliative Care: A New Perspective	p. 21
What Service Users Say	p. 39
Becoming Involved with Palliative Care	p. 41
Starting the Palliative Care Social Work Journey	p. 52
What Does the Social Worker Do?	p. 68
What Service Users Value Most	p. 88
Working with Difference	p. 105
Exploring Outcomes: Evaluating Specialist Palliative Care Social Work	p. 114
Developing the Discussion	p. 131
Accessing Specialist Palliative Care Social Work: A Broader Image Problem?	p. 133
The Problem of Referral	p. 139
The Nature, Strengths and Weaknesses of Practice	p. 154
Theory and Practice	p. 174
Specialist Palliative Care Social Work: A Service in the Shadows?	p. 189
Issues for the Future	p. 208
How We Carried Out the Research	p. 227
The Interview Schedule	p. 247
References	p. 252
Subject Index	p. 261
Author Index	p. 266
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