Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users

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 One: How we carried out the research. Appendix Two: The interview schedule. References. Subject index. Author index.

In this thoughtful and well researched book, the authors examine some of the key issues impacting on palliative care social work. The character of specialist palliative care social work thus emerges specially from the perspective of service users and this focus really distinguishes the book from others available on this subject.