Living With Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners Book

	Foreword
1	Fragments of love : explorations in the ethnography of suffering and professional caregiving	21
2	The symptom is stillness : living with and dying from ALS	43
3	The loss of a child to cancer : from case to caseworker	57
4	September 11 : reflections on living with dying in disaster relief	72
5	What is a respectful death?	102
6	Dying and bereavement in historical perspective	128
7	The history of social work in hospice	150
8	The interdisciplinary team : an oxymoron?	161
9	Ethical issues in end-of-life care : social work facilitation and proactive intervention	171
10	Spirituality and end-of-life care practice for social workers	188
11	Gender and death : parallel and intersecting pathways	206
12	Bereavement : a time of transition and changing relationships	226
13	Psychodynamic theories in grief and bereavement	242
14	The trajectory of illness	273
15	Clinical social work practice at the end of life	297
16	The end of life at the beginning of life : working with dying children and their families	318
17	Working with dying and bereaved older people	348
18	Assessing mental health risk in end-of-life care	360
19	Pain and symptom management : an essential role for social work	380
20	Palliative care and social work	409
21	Integrating spirituality and religion	424
22	A framework for multicultural end-of-life care : enhancing social work practice	439
23	Marginalization at the end of life	462
24	Lesbians and gay men at the end of their lives : psychosocial concerns	482
25	Palliative care for people with disabilities	499
26	Clinical practice with groups in end-of-life care	508
27	Technology-based groups and end-of-life social work practice	534
28	Working with families facing life-threatening illness in the medical setting	548
29	Helping the bereaved	571
30	End-of-life bioethics in clinical social work practice	593
31	End-of-life care in the prison system : implications for social work	609
32	End-of-life care in nursing homes	628
33	The family unity program for HIV-affected families : creating a family-centered and community-building context for interventions	642
34	Social work consultation to mental health workers serving children and families affected by disasters	661
35	Hematopoietic cell transplantation and the end of life	675
36	Oncology	696
37	Current legal issues in end-of-life care	730
38	Advanced directives and assisted suicide : policy implications for social work practice	761
39	End-of-life care in prisons	778
40	Social work end-of-life research	792
41	Financing end-of-life care	815
42	Taking charge : social work leadership in end-of-life care	825
43	The future of social work in end-of-life care : a call to action	838
44	Relentless self-care	848