Berzoff / Silverman Living With Dying

A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-50214-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 928 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Reihe: End-of-Life Care: A Series

The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families, Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare professionals, who, when faced with overwhelming personal losses altered their clinical practices and philosophies. The book provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, families, groups, and communities and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups.

Living with Dying addresses practice with people who have specific illnesses such as AIDS, bone marrow disease, and cancer and pays special attention to patients who have been stigmatized by culture, ability, sexual orientation, age, race, or homelessness. The book includes content on trauma and developmental issues for children, adults, and the aging who are dying, and it addresses legal, ethical, spiritual, cultural, and social class issues as core factors in the assessment of and work with the dying. It explores interdisciplinary teamwork, supervision, and the organizational and financing contexts in which dying occurs.

Current research in end-of-life care, ways to provide leadership in the field, and a call for compassion, insight, and respect for the dying makes this an indispensable resource for social workers, healthcare educators, administrators, consultants, advocates, and practitioners who work with the dying and their families.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berzoff, Joan

Silverman, Phyllis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Foreword by Thomas R. Egnew xix
Introduction 1
Part I Narratives in End-of-Life Care, 19
1. Fragments of Love: Explorations in the Ethnography of Suffering and Professional Caregiving, David Browning, 21
2. The Symptom Is Stillness: Living with and Dying from ALS, Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey, 43
3. The Loss of a Child to Cancer: From Case to Caseworker, Roberta Hoffman, 57
4. September 11: Reflections on Living with Dying in Disaster Relief, es Gallo-Silver and Penny Damaskos, 72
Part II Theoretical Aspects of Death and Dying, 95
Introduction: Theory, 97
5. What Is a Respectful Death? Stu Farber, Thomas Egnew, and Annalu Farber, 102
6. Dying and Bereavement in Historical Perspective, Phyllis R. Silverman, 128
7. The History of Social Work in Hospice, Mary Raymer and Dona Reese, 150
8. The Interdisciplinary Team: An Oxymoron? Inge B. Corless and Patrice K. Nicholas, 161
9. Ethical issues in End-of-Life Care: Social Work and Facilitation and Proactive Intervention, Patricia O'Donnell, 171
10. Spirituality and End-of-Life Care Practice for Social Workers, Carolyn Jacobs, 188
11. Gender and Death: Parallel and Intersecting Pathways, Illene C. Noppe, 206
12. Bereavement: A Time of Transition and Changing Relationships, Phyllis R. Silverman, 226
13. Psychodynamic Theories in Grief and Bereavement, Joan Berzoff, 242
Part III Clinical Practice Issues in End-of-Life Care, 263
Introduction: Clinical Practice, 265
14. The Trajectory of Illness, Allen Levine and Wendy Karger, 273
15. Clinical Social Work Practice at the End of Life, Felice Zilberfein and Elizabeth Hurwitz, 297
16. The End of Life at the Beginning of Life: Working with Dying Children and Their Families, Nancy Cincotta, 318
17. Working with Dying and Bereaved Older People, Sue Thompson and Neil Thompson, 348
18. Assessing Mental Health Risk in End-of-Life Care, Katherine Walsh-Burke, 360
19. Pain and Symptom Management: An Essential Role for Social Work, Terry Altilio, 380

Über Autor(innen)

Joan Berzoff is professor and codirector of the doctoral program at Smith College School for Social Work and director of the End of Life Certificate Program at Smith. She is the coauthor of Inside Out and Outside In: Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Practice in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts and Disassociative Identity Orders: The Controversy in Diagnosis and Treatment. She is the recent recipient of the Social Work Leadership Development Award from the Project on Death in America. Phyllis R. Silverman, Ph.D., is scholar-in-residence at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center and professor emerita at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She is recognized internationally for her research with the widowed and grieving children. Her writing includes Widower: When Men Are Left Alone, Continuing Bonds: A New Understanding of Grief, Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives, and a new edition of Widow-to-Widow.