Suzy Croft, Peter Beresford, Lesley Adshead

Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users

Making Life Possible

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781843104650
• ISBN-10: 1843104652
• Artikelnr.: 21732887

Autorenporträt

Suzy Croft is a senior social worker at St. John's Palliative Care Centre and Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University. She is a trustee of two leading UK palliative care organisations and she is a member of the editorial collective of Critical Social Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

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.