1st Edition
Social Work Practice and End-of-Life Care
Introduction: Social Work Practice in End of Life Care 1. A Good Death? 2. Psychosocial Perspectives on End of Life Care 3. ‘Living to Tell the Tale’ – Narratives of Surviving Cancer and the Social Work Response 4. End of Life Care: Everybody’s Business 5. Integrating Early Multi-disciplinary Advance Care Planning into Core Social Work Practice: Social Workers’ Bread and Butter 6. Working with Communities to Develop Resilience in End of Life and Bereavement Care: Hospices, Schools and Health Promoting Palliative Care 7. Does the Culture of Modern Day Palliative Care Social Work Leave Room for Leadership? 8. Schwartz Rounds® – Promoting Compassionate Care and Healthy Organisations
Biography
Heather Richardson is Joint Chief Executive of St Christopher’s Hospice, London, and Honorary Professor in Palliative Care at Lancaster University, UK. She is a nurse, and has held clinical, managerial and leadership roles in hospice/palliative care over the last thirty years. Her PhD focused on people’s experience of day hospice.
Gillian Chowns is a social worker by profession, and has practised, lectured and researched in palliative care. Her PhD examined the experience of children living with the life-threatening illness of a parent. She is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Palliative Care Works, a charity offering education, training and mentoring in resource-poor settings.
