dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners

Edited by Joan Berzoff and Phyllis Silverman

September, 2004
Cloth, 928 pages, 6 tables , 4 figures illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12794-3
$96.50 / £56.50

Part I. Narratives in End-of-Life Care

Fragments of Love: Explorations in the Ethnography of Suffering and Professional Caregiving, by David Browning

The Symptom Is Stillness: Living with and Dying from ALS, by Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey

The Loss of a Child to Cancer: From Case to Caseworker, by Roberta Hoffman

September 11: Reflections on Living with Dying in Disaster Relief, by Les Gallo-Silver and Penny Damaskos

Part II. Theoretical Aspects of Death and Dying

Introduction To Theory

What Is a Respectful Death?, by Stu Farber, Thomas Egnew, and Annalu Farber

Dying and Bereavement in Historical Perspective, by Phyllis R. Silverman

The History of Social Work in Hospice, by Mary Raymer and Dona Reese

The Interdisciplinary Team: An Oxymoron?, by Inge B. Corless and Patrice K. Nicholas

Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care: Social Work Facilitation and Proactive Intervention, by Patricia O'Donnell

Spirituality and End-of-Life Care Practice for Social Workers, by Carolyn Jacobs

Gender and Death: Parallel and Intersecting Pathways, by Illene C. Noppe

Bereavement: A Time of Transition and Changing Relationships, by Phyllis R. Silverman

Psychodynamic Theories in Grief and Bereavement, by Joan Berzoff

Part III. Clinical Practice Issues in End-of-Life Care

Introduction: Clinical Practice

The Trajectory of Illness, by Allen Levine and Wendy Karger

Clinical Social Work Practice at the End of Life, by Felice Zilberfein and Elizabeth Hurwitz

The End of Life at the Beginning of Life: Working with Dying Children and Their Families, by Nancy Cincotta

Working with Dying and Bereaved Older People, by Sue Thompson and Neil Thompson

Assessing Mental Health Risk in End-of-Life Care, by Katherine Walsh-Burke

Pain and Symptom Management: An Essential Role for Social Work, by Terry Altilio

Palliative Care and Social Work, by Susan Blacker

Integrating Spirituality and Religion, by Barbara Dane

A Framework for Multicultural End-of-Life Care: Enhancing Social Work Practice, by Norma del Rio

Marginalization at the End of Life, by Shirley Otis-Green and Christian B. Rutland

Lesbians and Gay Men at the End of Their Lives: Psychosocial Concerns, by Bruce Thompson and Yvette ColÛn

Palliative Care for People with Disabilities, by Gary L. Stein and Lucille Esralew

Clinical Practice with Groups in End-of-Life Care, by Amanda L. Sutton and Daniel Liechty

Technology-Based Groups and End-of-Life Social Work Practice, by Yvette ColÛn

Working with Families Facing Life-Threatening Illness in the Medical Setting, by Susan Blacker and Alice Rainess Jordan

Helping the Bereaved, by Phyllis R. Silverman

End-of-Life Bioethics in Clinical Social Work Practice, by Susan Gerbino and Shelley Henderson

End-of-Life Care in the Prison System: Implications for Social Work, by Sheila R. Enders

End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes, by Mercedes Bern-Klug and Kim Ellis

The Family Unity Program for HIV-Affected Families: Creating a Family-Centered and Community-Building Context for Interventions, by Christian Itin, Susan McFeaters, and Susan Taylor-Brown

Social Work Consultation to Mental Health Workers Serving Children and Families Affected by Disasters, by Lisa Aronson

Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and the End of Life, by Iris Cohen Fineberg

Oncology, by John Linder

Part IV. Context and Leadership

Introduction: The Contexts of End-of-Life Care

Current Legal Issues in End-of-Life Care, by Stephen Arons

Advanced Directives and Assisted Suicide: Policy Implications for Social Work Practice, by Ellen Csikai

End-of-Life Care in Prisons, by John Dawes and Jenny Dawes

Social Work End-of-Life Research, by Betty J. Kramer and Mercedes Bern-Klug

Financing End-of-Life Care, by June Simmons

Taking Charge: Social Work Leadership in End-of-Life Care, by Esther Chachkes and Zelda Foster

The Future of Social Work in End-of-Life Care: A Call to Action, by Elizabeth J. Clark

Relentless Self-Care, by Irene Renzenbrink

Related Subjects

• Social Work

Series

• End of Life Care: A Series

About the Author

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.

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