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.

Living with Dying

Politics & Social Sciences

Phyllis R. Silverman

Joan Berzoff

Social Sciences

Columbia University Press

`...will be welcomed by the experienced practitioner as well as the new professional and volunteer. The book is written clearly and...provides a valuable service to all those involved by explicitly delineating the roles and functions of the volunteer members of the mutual help group, the professional, and the supporting agency, and by highlighting differences between autonomous mutual help groups and those supported by social service organizations.′ -- The Journal of Contemporary Social Work, October 1981

Mutual Help Groups: Organization and Development (SAGE Human Services Guides)

Sage Publications, Inc.

In "Widower: When Men are Left Alone", a journalist and a social worker explore the grief process as men experience it. The book contains the oral histories of twenty men, ranging in age from 30 to 94, who have lost their wives to a range of causes including cancer, alcohol, murder, and suicide. Taken together, the stories guide the reader through the journey of widowhood, from the raw despair of the early weeks to the resolved perspective thirteen years later, offered by the only true authority on the subject - the men who have survived it.

Widower: When Men Are Left Alone (Death, Value and Meaning Series)

Scott, Campbell

Parenting & Relationships

Baywood Publishing Co

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