This comprehensive, evidence-informed text provides clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and academicians, with content to inform and enrich the guidelines recommended by the National Consensus Project and the National Quality Forum Preferred Practices. It is designed to meet the needs of
health social work professionals who seek to provide culturally sensitive biopsychosocial-spiritual care for patients and families living with life-threatening illness. Edited by two of the leading social work clinician-researchers in the US, this text serves as the definitive resource for
practicing clinicians and fulfills the need for social work faculty who wish to complement general health care texts with information specific to palliative and end-of-life care.
Historical Context
1. Dame Cicely Saunders: Social Work and Palliative Care: The Early History
2. Bernice C. Harper: Palliative Social Work: An Historical Perspective
3. Susan Blacker and Grace: Defining Social Work's Role and Leadership Contributions in Palliative Care
4.
Phillip C. Higgins: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Emerging Identity of Palliative Social Workers
Social Work Practice: Setting-Specific
5. Colleen M. Mulkerin: Palliative Care Consultation
6. Andrew J. McCormick: Palliative Social Work in the Intensive Care Unit
7. Robin
Rudy Lawson: Palliative Social Work in the Emergency Department
8. Sherri Weisenfluh: Social Work and Palliative Care in Hospice
9. Stacy F. Orloff: Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care: The Invaluable Role of Social Work
10. Elena Davis-Stenhouse, Kennan Moore and Becky Niemeyer: Home
Based Palliative Care
11. Mercedes Bern-Klug and Kelsey Simons: Palliative Care in Long-term Care Facilities
12. Louisa Daratsos: Palliative Care for Veterans
13. Richard B. Francoeur, Susan Murty and Bernice Sandowski: Special Considerations in Rural and Inner City Areas
14. Karlynn
BrintzenhofSzoc: Clinical Trials and the Role of Social Wor
15. John F. Linder and Sheila R. Enders: Key Roles for Palliative Social Work in Correctional Settings
Social Work Practice: Screening, Assessment & Intervention
16. James Zabora: Screening, Assessment and a Problem
Solving Intervention for Distress among Palliative Care Patients
17. Katherine Walsh and Susan Hedlund: Mental Health Risk in Palliative Care: The Social Work Role
18. Lissa Parsonnet and Carrie Lethborg: Addressing Suffering in Palliative Care: Two Psychotherapeutic Models
19. Dona J.
Reese: Spirituality and Social Work Practice in Palliative Care
20. Susan Cadell, Sheryl Shermak and Meaghen Johnston: Discovering Strengths and Growth in Palliative Care
21. Myra Glajchen: Caregivers in Palliative Care: Roles and Responsibilities
22. Iris Cohen Fineberg and Amy Bauer:
Families & Family Conferencing
23. Lucia McBee: The Doctor Within: Integrative Medicine, Social Work and Palliative Care
24. Les Gallo-Silver: Sexuality, Sensuality and Intimacy in Palliative Care
25. John G. Cagle and Terry Altilio: The Social Work Role in Pain and Symptom
Management
26. Nancy J. Sherman: The Whys and Wherefores of Support Groups: helping people cope
27. Katharine M. Campbell: Social Work and Technology: The software and hard drive of patient and family care
28. Nancy F. Cincotta: Bereavement in the Beginning Phase of Life: Grief in
children and their families
29. Susan Gerbino and Mary Raymer: Holding On and Letting Go: The Red Thread of Adult Bereavement
Population-Specific Practice
30. A. Marlene Lockey, Diane Benefiel and Margaret Meyer: Palliative Social Work and Oncology Care
31. Teri Browne:
Palliative Care in Chronic Kidney Disease
32. Kelly M. McHenry and Robin Rudy Lawson: Emerging Opportunities for Palliative Social Workers: Organ Failure and Neurological Disease
33. William Goeren: Social Work, HIV Disease and Palliative Care
34. Sarah Gehlert and Teresa Moro:
Palliative Care with Vulnerable Populations
35. Kathryn M. Smolinski and Yvette Colon: Palliative Care with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Persons
36. Barbara L. Jones, Stacy S. Remke and Farya Phillips: Social Work in Pediatric Palliative Care
37. Daniel S. Gardner: Palliative
Social Work with Older Adults and their Families
Collaborations in Palliative Care
38. Doretta Stark: Teamwork in Palliative Care: An Integrative Approach
39. Becky Anderson, Louise Marasco, Julia Kasl-Godley and Sheila Kennedy: Social Work and Psychology
40. Laura Benson and
Carolyn Messner: Social Work, Fundraising and Philanthropy: It's not just about money
41. Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft: Social Work, Self-Advocates and Users of Palliative Care Services
42. Maura Conry, Christopher M. Herndon and Diane R. Jackson: Social Work and Pharmacy
43. Ellen
Goldring and Judith Solomon: Social Work and Child Life: A family's journey with childhood cancer
44. Jimmie Holland and Anne Hamilton Martin: Social Work and Psychiatry
45. John Mondanaro and Stacey Needleman: Social Work and Creative Arts Services
46. J.J. Nadicksbernd, Kathryn
Thornberry and Charles F. von Gunten: Social Workers and Physicians
47. Holly Nelson-Becker and Betty Ferrell: Social Work and Nursing
48. Robin Pollens and Marie C. Lynn: Social Work and Speech Pathology: Supporting Communication in Palliative Care
49. John Quillin, Jaclyn Miller and
Joann N. Bodurtha: Palliative Social Work and Genetics
50. Donna L. Soltura and Linda F. Piotrowski: Social Work and Spiritual Care Professionals
51. Gary L. Stein and Jeanne Kerwin: Social Work and Bioethics: Enhanced resolution of ethical dilemmas and the challenges along the way
52.
Wendy Walters and Dennis E. Watts: Social Work and Volunteers
Palliative Social Work: Regional Voices from a Global Perspective
53. Rebecca Myers and Elizabeth J. Clark: The Need for Global Capacity Building for Palliative Social Work
54. Linda Anngela Cole, Lana Sue Ka'opua and
Yvonne Yim: Palliative Care, Culture and the Pacific Basin
55. Susan Cadell and Harvey Bosma: Palliative Social Work in Canada
56. Csaba Degi: Palliative Social Work in Central Eastern Europe: Case of Romania
57. Elena D'Urbano: Palliative Social Work in Buenos Aires, Argentina
58.
Julie Garrard, Julie Greathouse, Susan Hearn and Patricia McKinnon: Australian Palliative Social Work
59. Jennifer Jane Hunt and Valerie Maasdorp: Palliative Social Work: An African Perspective
60. A. Jagannathan and S. Juvva: Palliative Social Work: An Indian Perspective
61. Yukie
Kurihara: Palliative Social Work in Japan
62. Pamela Pui Yu Lueng and Cecilia Lai Wan Chan: Palliative Social Work in a Chinese Context: An Integrated framework for Culturally Respectful Practice
63. Tzer Wee Ng and Cheng Wan Peh: Palliative Social Work in Singapore
64. Malcolm Payne and
Margaret Reith: Palliative Social Work in The UK
65. Shlomit Perry: Palliative Social Work in Israel
66. Hanan Qasim: Selected Issues in Palliative Care among East Jerusalem Arab Residents
Ethics
67. Patricia O'Donnell: Ethical Considerations in Palliative Care: An
Overview
68. Tracy Borgmeyer: The Social Work Role in Decision-Making: Ethical, Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives
69. Karen Bullock: Advance Directives from a Social Work Perspective: Influence of Culture and Family Dynamics
70. Hollye Harrington-Jacobs: Pediatric Palliative Care:
Ethics and Decision Making
71. John Linder, Tracy Schroepfer and Pamela Miller: Social Work's Ethical Challenge: Supporting the Terminally Ill Who Consider a Hastened Death
72. Terry Altilio: Palliative Sedation: A View through the Kaleidoscope
Professional Issues
73. David
Browning and Susan Gerbino: Navigating in Swampy Lowlands: A Relational Approach to Practice-Based Learning in Palliative Care
74. Mary Raymer and Gary Gardia: Enhancing Professionalism, Leadership and Advocacy: A Call to Arms
75. Terry Altilio: The Power and Potential of Language
76.
Barbara Jones and Ellen Csikai: Growing the Workforce: Professional Development
77. Ellen Csikai: Professional Connections for Palliative Social Workers
78. Jamie Goldberg and Michal Scharlin: Financial Considerations for the Palliative Social Worker
79. Guadalupe Palos: Social Work
Research Agenda in Palliative & End-of-Life Care
80. Debra Oliver Parker and Karla Washington: Merging Research and Clinical Practi Debra Oliver Parker and Karla Washington
81. Barbara Ivanko: Continuous Quality Improvement and Organizational Change
82. Judith Peres: Policy Issues in
Palliative and End-of-Life Care
83. Elizabeth Clark: Self-care as Best Practice in Palliative Care
84. Shirley Otis-Green: Legacy Building: Implications for Reflective Practice
Epilogue: Lessons Learned
Appendix: Index of Patient Narratives
`: Index
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Terry Altilio, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, is Coordinator of Social Work for the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. In addition to direct work with patients and families, she has published and lectured nationally and internationally on topics
such as pain management, ethics, palliative care and psychosocial issues in end-of-life care. She received a Project on Death in America Social Work Leadership award to establish a social work post graduate fellowship in palliative care and the Social Work Network in End-of-Life and Palliative Care,
an email discussion group which currently networks over 500 social workers. In 2003, she received the Social Worker of the Year award from the Association of Oncology Social Work and a Professional Volunteer Recognition Award from the American Cancer Society. She is a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow
and was elected a Distinguished Social Work Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. Terry serves on the Advisory Council of the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives and the editorial board of the Journal of Social Work and End of Life Care.
Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-C,
is a licensed clinical social worker and Senior Research Specialist in Nursing Research and Education at the City of Hope in Duarte, California. Her clinical work, research, presentations and publications focus on transdisciplinary palliative care and integrated symptom management with a special
emphasis on underserved populations. Shirley is the Principal Investigator of two National Cancer Institute-funded grants (the ACE Project and ExCEL in Social Work), and developed the nationally recognized Promoting Excellence in Pain Management and Palliative Care for Social Workers course. She
received a Social Work Leadership Award from the Project on Death in America and is a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Palliative Medicine and is a Distinguished Social Work Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. Shirley received her Master
of Social Work Degree from the University of Hawaii and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in palliative care at Lancaster University in Great Britain.
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