
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work
Oxford University Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2011
Book
Hardback
848 pages
978-0-19-973911-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work is an excellent resource for all clinicians who have the privilege of caring for seriously ill patients and their families. We recommend it as a necessary resource for every palliative care and hospice team, and we suggest it as an important reference for all social workers and social work trainees practicing in health care. Additionally, the book provides valuable information for leaders of health care systems and for policy makers who are preparing to face the challenge of creating large-scale interventions to meet the needs of this patient population. * Journal of Palliative Care, Jan 2013 * This comprehensive textbook emphasizes the important role of the social worker in palliative care and sets the standards for the practice of palliative social work...The book will be an essential tool for all practioners and all those involved in palliative care. * Anticancer Research * This is an impressive book and very reseonably priced. It covers the field of palliative and social work and helps set the standard. It will be invaluable for anyone training in palliative social work...it will also be a useful refernce for other members of the palliative care family, be they doctors or nurses or other allied health professionals, to gain a better understanding of what palliative social work is all about. This comprehensive compendium will provide a useful tool for palliative care social workers. It will also inform anyone, whether or not working in palliative care, about the value of social work at the end of life. * Mortality, Sept 2012 * Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work s an indispensable resource for all social workers who share in the care for this very special population of patients and their loved ones; its a beautiful and valuable compendium of knowledge about theoretical and practical issues for social workers which help beginners as well as experienced specialists in their practice. * Journal of Palliative Care *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Social work clinicians, researchers, and instructors; palliative care professionals
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
2350 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-973911-0 (9780199739110)
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Terry MSW Altilio | Shirley MSW Otis-Green
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work
E-Book
03/2011
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€126.99
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Persons
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.
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, 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.
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, 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.
Editor
, Coordinator of Social WorkDepartment of Pain Medicine & Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
, Senior Research Specialist, Division of Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
Foreword
, Research ScientistDepartment of Nursing Education and Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
, Chairman, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Content
HISTORICAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: SETTING-SPECIFIC; SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: SCREENING, ASSESSMENT & INTERVENTION; POPULATION-SPECIFIC PRACTICE; COLLABORATIONS IN PALLIATIVE CARE; PALLIATIVE SOCIAL WORK: REGIONAL VOICES FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; ETHICS; PROFESSIONAL ISSUES; EPILOGUE: LESSONS LEARNED; APPENDIX: INDEX OF PATIENT NARRATIVES; INDEX