Download or read book The Complex Maze Called Hospice Social Work written by Kerry Klunder Lbsw and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospice social work is a complex and specialized branch of the medical field. Social workers in this area have unique skills, roles, and techniques that are often overlooked or underestimated. This book is a celebration and an educational opportunity for those interested in Hospice social work. It is a lighthearted, realistic, and a personal account of techniques, experiences, and opportunities for growth in this specialized profession. This book gives a realistic, yet lighthearted look at the vast and unexpected turns this work can take, and along the way shows the growth and lessons the author has experienced in her years of working in this field. Her tips, suggestions and techniques are down to earth and easy to understand, and you will find them helpful not only in the Hospice field, but in your personal life as well. The information shared in this book is heartwarming and easy to apply, and something you will not want to put down!
Download or read book Hospice Social Work written by Dona J. Reese and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work. She introduces a well-tested model of psychosocial and spiritual variables that predict hospice client outcomes, and she advances a social work assessment tool to document their occurrence. Operating at the center of national leaders' coordinated efforts to develop and advance professional organizations and guidelines for end-of-life care, Reese reaches out with support and practice information, helping social workers understand their significance in treating the whole person, contributing to the cultural competence of hospice settings, and claiming a definitive place within the hospice team.
Download or read book Palliative Care written by Bridget Sumser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and instructive, Palliative Care guides and inspires health social workers to integrate palliative care principles into their current clinical practice. Through the lenses of environmental theory and intersectionality, rich case narratives and diverse practice settings highlightopportunities for social workers to enhance their work, thereby advancing whole-person care in the face of serious illness. The volume also models engagement, assessment, and intervention through key palliative care skills and language. Chapters include questions to concretize ideas and demonstratereal-world application, while case narratives cover a range of settings, diagnoses, and populations. This book is a useful tool for any social worker working with individuals and families navigating complex health care systems.
Download or read book FINAL CHAPTERS written by Evelyn Amdur and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Chapters written by Shelley R Amdur and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've only met Evelyn Amdur through the pages of this book. She seems like a character from the old days, when people connected personally, with genuine care and love. She knew, intuitively, what others needed to hear, understanding their moral dilemmas. A multi-talented and gifted being, perhaps what stands out most for me was her genius at common sense. Particularly at the end of our lives, she's what we wish for and rarely receive. This is a book for social workers, to be sure, but beyond that, for all of us. Most of all, it is a message from a remarkable woman on how to face our final days, and also how to care for those who walk that road before us. - Ondrea LevineEvelyn Amdur became a hospice social worker at the age of sixty-one, a job she continued until one month before her death at age eighty-two. She began to write these stories midway through her career, collaborating with her daughter, Shelley, a respected teacher of meditation in the Chicago area. Many traditional cultures have a custom of 'death songs, ' which rest on the idea that at one's last moment, one somehow sums up the essence of one's life in a phrase or a song. These are truly American death songs. Unlike the austere poetry of the Japanese, which catch the evanescence of life in an image, both beautiful and stark, or the glorious courage of the warriors of the Great Plains, summing up their lives up in a final burst of ecstatic joy, here in language almost artless, in the simplicity of lives much like our own, a dignity rises, one common hero after another. Woven into these stories are instructions on how to die well-or at least, as well as we can-not only in what spirit we face death itself, but also through instructions on what is necessary to prepare our families, to ready our estates, and to manage all the players who may be involved in our deaths. Finally, these stories also teach others who hold the same responsibilities that Evelyn herself had, be they social services, medical staff, caregivers or families-how to offer the dying as much grace as she did
Download or read book Honest Endings written by Katherine Cullen, M.S.W. and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HONEST ENDINGSDo You Have Worries or Fears about Witnessing the End of Life?Gain Freedom from your Anxieties and Fears about the Natural Dying Process Know what You Can Say or Do to Comfort the Dying Be Better Prepared for Attending a Death of a Loved OneWatching a Loved One Die is not Easy. It is Very Difficult.The good news is this: attending a death is a very special form of intimacy, an enormous act of love and caring.No one is better able than you to provide comfort care to your loved one. You will never regret being there.Enter into the World of Hospice: Mysterious and ChallengingExperience moving stories of others going through the same process. Grow in your own confidence as a caregiver as Kathy Cullen shares her journey as she learns to counsel the dying. Quickly enhance your natural skills as a caregiver.Realize that you can do it too..A Memoir for the Current TimesKathy faces her anxieties about death with courage, never shortchanging those who depend on her for strength, support, and emotional comfort. This challenging time in her life leads her on a spiritual journey, finding comfort and peace at long last.You will find it an easy and interesting book, touching and helpful.This is a quick read full of heartwarming stories.
Download or read book The Dying Process A Hospice Social Worker s Perspective On End Of Life Care written by Dana Plish and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dying Process - A Hospice Social Worker's Perspective On End Of Life Care provides a detailed exploration of issues pertaining to patient and family grief reactions, closure support needs, understanding pain, pain management and avenues to create a positive death experience.
Download or read book Hospice and Palliative Care written by Stephen R. Connor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive overview of the practice of hospice, as well as the challenges faced by and the direction of the hospice movement. This book provides chapters that address key topics such as the goals and importance of community involvement, outcome measurement, and the manner in which hospices address death, grief, and bereavement.
Download or read book Walking Through the Valley of Death Experiences of a Hospice Social Worker written by Brittany Thurston and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We shy away from death, and yet it is the one great equalizer of us all. Every living thing will someday find its time to leave, sometimes with peace and sometimes not. The dying always have something to share with the living, the ones left and the ones yet to come. What does death look like? What do those left behind find in themselves to help them cope? This book gives more than a glimpse into death and those left behind. It allows us the opportunity to have our own birth with death by being on the fringes of where death is every day--hospice.
Download or read book Social Work Practice and End of life Care written by Heather Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the practice of social work in supporting people at the end of life; it considers the nature and experience of living and dying in contemporary society; and it asks how social workers can best support people who are dying or bereaved.
Download or read book Best Practices of Hospice Social Workers who Work with Families Experiencing Grief and Loss written by Bethany Butzow and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demystifying Hospice written by Karen J. Clayton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospice care is available to patients and families dealing with terminal illness. People often do not avail themselves of hospice care because they don’t understand what it entails. Many wait until their last few days to request this extraordinary comfort care instead of using the full six months available to them through Medicare and other insurance options. Demystifying Hospice describes through stories good news about end-of-life issues. Written from the perspective of a licensed social worker with experience in public and private hospitals, hospice, and the American Cancer Society, these first-hand accounts of patients, family members, hospice workers and others will lift spirits, touch hearts, and illustrate the advantages of hospice care. These are real-life examples of personalized comfort care, offered by an interdisciplinary team, where ever the patient lives. Each story addresses some aspect of helping families through the caregiving and grieving process, which are part-and-parcel of a serious illness, and offers comfort and understanding to readers who may be going through similar experiences. This book describes hope, healing, and support through difficult times.
Download or read book Hospice A Memoir of Life Among the Dying written by Deborah Lee and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospice is an often-misunderstood medical specialty. The reality of the work is complex, poignant, challenging, fulfilling, and even humorous. These essays shine light on the struggles, gratifications, and life lessons from a hospice social worker.
Download or read book My Little People written by Annie Clara Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Clara Brown is passionate about her work in hospice. It is gratifying to have embraced the social work profession in this manner! She cares deeply for her patients and caregivers, and has developed a healthy sense of humor in an occupation that can be both physically and emotionally demanding. Annie's strengths lie in the personal stories and her personal feelings, reactions, and experiences. Annie hopes to inspire caregivers and patients to choose hospice care when faced with terminal illness at end of life. She further wants social workers and healthcare workers to know that hospice care can be one of the most challenging but fulfilling areas of service to mankind. Ms. Brown has had the opportunity to precept other social workers during her time in this journey. Two of the following individuals had the pleasure of reading this book prior to publication and Ms. Brown quotes their remarks. "My little people is a virtual gift to those who read it, in that its author has managed to successfully interconnect valuable, historical hospice social work information for its use in a professional forum and for the sake of the individual battling terminal illness. This book serves as an invaluable tool for any caretaker or loved one navigating the end of life process." Marta James Harris, LBSW "If you are searching for answers about hospice care this is an extraordinary read. This book not only defines who, what, when, and where of hospice, but also tells the heartfelt stories of a humbled medical social worker making the best of heart-wrenching situations. Ms. Brown ties in her personal experiences to make an informative, yet personal story to educate individuals and families on hospice. I enjoyed reading about the various encounters Ms. Brown has experienced. This book is a must read!" Amanda Johnson, MSW
Download or read book Benefit Or Burden written by Doris F. Kampa Knettel and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill written by Joan K Parry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work most effectively with terminally ill patients and their families are the ones who best understand the multifaceted nature of the dying process and its impact on the the patient, the family, and even on the health care professionals who work with patients at the end of life. Dr. Parry--who specializes in dying and bereavement--offers astute observations on the stages of dealing with the diagnosis of a terminal illness and the impending death that patients and their families confront. This updated second edition provides valuable new information on ways that social workers can help those with AIDS and their families, on traumatic death from any cause, and on the grieving processes of parents. Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, also includes stimulating discussions on: the interdisciplinary health team the grieving process professional burnout how social workers adapt to working with dying patients euthanasia and physician-assisted dying living wills and patients’rights In touching case studies, this volume illustrates the particular needs and concerns of the terminally ill and their families--impending losses, financial worries, job concerns, pain, unfinished business, and spiritual needs--and reviews successful interventions used by social workers to help patients and their families work through the dying process.
Download or read book Palliative Care Social Work and Service Users written by Peter Beresford and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. Drawing on new original research, the authors examine service users' experiences, tracking their journeys through it, exploring the care they receive and the effects of culture and difference through their first hand comments and ideas.
