Social work in palliative care

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
Terry Altilio ◽  
Bridget Sumser ◽  
Nina Laing
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Home Care Nursing ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Social Work

Palliative social work is an evolving specialty which continues to be enriched by practitioners globally. Social workers practise in diverse settings and have the opportunity to extend palliative care values and processes beyond hospitals and hospices to home care, nursing homes, prisons, and senior centres. This chapter discusses social work values and core principles as a foundation upon which to integrate palliative care, creating a rich opportunity to serve patients, families, teams, institutions, and communities. It begins with an introduction to the history of social work in palliative care and moves on to discuss the convergence and synergy of social work and palliative care, and the need to create models of care to meet global needs. Assessment and interventions are introduced with attention to confidentiality, culture, family meetings, and the roles and responsibilities within team work. Finally, a patient family narrative is presented.

Social work in palliative care

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Altilio ◽  
Nina Laing
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Assessment Culture ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
Social Work Practitioners

The early link of palliative social work clinicians in the United Kingdom and the United States provided a foundation for the evolving specialty of social work in palliative care which continues to be enriched by social work practitioners across the world. Social workers practise in diverse settings and have the opportunity to move palliative care values and processes beyond hospitals and hospices to nursing homes, prisons, and senior centres. This chapter discuss how palliative care social work skills are a rich opportunity to serve patients, families, teams, and institutions. It begins with a section introducing social work in palliative care and moves on to discuss the convergence and synergy of social work with palliative care. Issues such as assessment and intervention (including confidentiality, assessment, culture, and family meetings) are then introduced and roles and responsibilities in social work teams are discussed. Finally a patient family narrative is presented.

African Caribbean Migration

Affilia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
V. C. Rhonda Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The City ◽  
History Of Social Work

This article seeks to examine the concept of the better life in the context of African Caribbean migration to Canada with the aim of contributing toward a more complicated and nuanced understanding of the intersection of transnational migration and decolonizing approaches in social work. Within this examination, I contend that migration by African Caribbeans is a form of resistance to the ongoing evisceration of their life chances and choices as a result of colonization. The movement of African Caribbean people is tied to a legacy of centuries of resistance to European exploitation, extortion, and extraction of resources enacted through regimes of slavery, colonization, and globalization. This article briefly explores the history of social work values in what is now known as Canada, as it relates to understanding how social work is positioned in relation to African Caribbean migration to Canada through a decolonizing lens and draws on recent findings from research with African Caribbean participants in the city of Toronto, Ontario, to critically deconstruct the concept of a better life. This deconstruction is necessary to supporting decolonizing understandings of the contemporary social conditions endured by African Caribbean peoples in Canada and to transforming relations between social work and African Caribbean peoples.

The Feminist Perspective and Social Work Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Isabel Rose ◽  
Daria Hanssen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Education ◽  
History Of Social Work

Although the feminist perspective has been significant throughout the history of social work, its presence in the contemporary profession seems less prominent. This qualitative pilot study explores the views of social work educators (N=56) on the role of the feminist perspective in social work education and their experience with student responses regarding the tenets of feminism as applied to social work education and practice. Although a majority of respondents expressed support for integrating feminism into the curriculum, some sought guidance on the presentation of the feminist perspective in social work education and practice. In addition, an analysis of social work scholarly periodicals for feminist topics and perspectives revealed an apparent fading of feminism in the literature.

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