Cover -- Half title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I. Narratives in End-of-Life Care -- 1. Fragments of Love: Explorations in the Ethnography of Suffering and Professional Caregiving -- 2. The Symptom Is Stillness: Living with and Dying from ALS -- 3. The Loss of a Child to Cancer: From Case to Caseworker -- 4. September 11: Reflections on Living with Dying in Disaster Relief -- Part II. Theoretical Aspects of Death and Dying -- Introduction: Theory -- 5. What Is a Respectful Death? -- 6. Dying and Bereavement in Historical Perspective -- 7. The History of Social Work in Hospice -- 8. The Interdisciplinary Team: An Oxymoron? -- 9. Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care: Social Work Facilitation and Proactive Intervention -- 10. Spirituality and End-of-Life Care Practice for Social Workers -- 11. Gender and Death: Parallel and Intersecting Pathways -- 12. Bereavement: A Time of Transition and Changing Relationships -- 13. Psychodynamic Theories in Grief and Bereavement -- Part III. Clinical Practice Issues in End-of-Life Care -- Introduction: Clinical Practice -- 14. The Trajectory of Illness -- 15. Clinical Social Work Practice at the End of Life -- 16. The End of Life at the Beginning of Life: Working with Dying Children and Their Families -- 17. Working with Dying and Bereaved Older People -- 18. Assessing Mental Health Risk in End-of-Life Care -- 19. Pain and Symptom Management: An Essential Role for Social Work -- 20. Palliative Care and Social Work -- 21. Integrating Spirituality and Religion -- 22. A Framework for Multicultural End-of-Life Care: Enhancing Social Work Practice -- 23. Marginalization at the End of Life -- 24. Lesbians and Gay Men at the End of Their Lives: Psychosocial Concerns.

25. Palliative Care for People with Disabilities -- 26. Clinical Practice with Groups in End-of-Life Care -- 27. Technology-Based Groups and End-of-Life Social Work Practice -- 28. Working with Families Facing Life-Threatening Illness in the Medical Setting -- 29. Helping the Bereaved -- 30. End-of-Life Bioethics in Clinical Social Work Practice -- 31. End-of-Life Care in the Prison System: Implications for Social Work -- 32. End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes -- 33. The Family Unity Program for HIV-Affected Families: Creating a Family-Centered and Community-Building Context for Interventions -- 34. Social Work Consultation to Mental Health Workers Serving Children and Families Affected by Disasters -- 35. Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and the End of Life -- 36. Oncology -- Part IV. Context and Leadership -- Introduction: The Contexts of End-of-Life Care -- 37. Current Legal Issues in End-of-Life Care -- 38. Advanced Directives and Assisted Suicide: Policy Implications for Social Work Practice -- 39. End-of-Life Care in Prisons -- 40. Social Work End-of-Life Research -- 41. Financing End-of-Life Care -- 42. Taking Charge: Social Work Leadership in End-of-Life Care -- 43. The Future of Social Work in End-of-Life Care: A Call to Action -- 44. Relentless Self-Care -- Conclusion -- Index.