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Palliative care, social work, and service users : making life possible /

This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. It is the first to investigate specialist palliative care social work from this viewpoint. Drawing on new original research, the authors examine service users' experiences of social w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beresford, Peter
Otros Autores: Adshead, Lesley, 1953-, Croft, Suzy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Palliative care : a new perspective
  • Becoming involved with palliative care
  • Starting the palliative care social work journey
  • What does the social worker do?
  • What service users value most
  • Working with difference
  • Exploring outcomes : evaluating specialist palliative care social work
  • Accessing specialist palliative care social work : a broader image problem?
  • The problem of referral
  • The nature, strengths and weaknesses of practice
  • Theory and practice
  • Specialist palliative care social work : a service in the shadows?
  • Issues for the future.