Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users - Softcover

Beresford, Peter

 
9781843104650: Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1843104652 ISBN 13: 9781843104650
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

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 work and palliative care, tracking their journeys through it, exploring the care they receive and the effects of culture and difference through their first hand comments and ideas. The writers link service users' critiques with broader debates and developments in social work and palliative care and consider the implications of the book's findings for the formation of policy and practice and for future professional education and training.

A groundbreaking text, Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users is of particular value to social work professionals, palliative care workers, educators, researchers and policy makers.

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About the Authors

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.

Lesley Adshead is a research associate at Birkbeck, University of London. She was formerly a senior social worker at St John's Palliative Care Centre and taught Specialist Palliative Care Social Work at Middlesex University.

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Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1843104652
ISBN 13 
9781843104650
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
268