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| List of Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Narratives in End-of-Life Care | |
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| Fragments of Love: Explorations in the Ethnography of Suffering and Professional Caregiving | |
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| The Symptom Is Stillness: Living with and Dying from ALS | |
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| The Loss of a Child to Cancer: From Case to Caseworker | |
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| September 11: Reflections on Living with Dying in Disaster Relief | |
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| Theoretical Aspects of Death and Dying | |
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| Introduction: Theory | |
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| What Is a Respectful Death? | |
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| Dying and Bereavement in Historical Perspective | |
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| The History of Social Work in Hospice | |
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| The Interdisciplinary Team: An Oxymoron? | |
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| Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care: Social Work Facilitation and Proactive Intervention | |
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| Spirituality and End-of-Life Care Practice for Social Workers | |
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| Gender and Death: Parallel and Intersecting Pathways | |
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| Bereavement: A Time of Transition and Changing Relationships | |
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| Psychodynamic Theories in Grief and Bereavement | |
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| Clinical Practice Issues in End-of-Life Care | |
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| Introduction: Clinical Practice | |
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| The Trajectory of Illness | |
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| Clinical Social Work Practice at the End of Life | |
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| The End of Life at the Beginning of Life: Working with Dying Children and Their Families | |
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| Working with Dying and Bereaved Older People | |
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| Assessing Mental Health Risk in End-of-Life Care | |
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| Pain and Symptom Management: An Essential Role for Social Work | |
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| Palliative Care and Social Work | |
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| Integrating Spirituality and Religion | |
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| A Framework for Multicultural End-of-Life Care: Enhancing Social Work Practice | |
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| Marginalization at the End of Life | |
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| Lesbians and Gay Men at the End of Their Lives: Psychosocial Concerns | |
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| Palliative Care for People with Disabilities | |
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| Clinical Practice with Groups in End-of-Life Care | |
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| Technology-Based Groups and End-of-Life Social Work Practice | |
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| Working with Families Facing Life-Threatening Illness in the Medical Setting | |
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| Helping the Bereaved | |
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| End-of-Life Bioethics in Clinical Social Work Practice | |
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| End-of-Life Care in the Prison System: Implications for Social Work | |
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| End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes | |
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| The Family Unity Program for HIV-Affected Families: Creating a Family-Centered and Community-Building Context for Interventions | |
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| Social Work Consultation to Mental Health Workers Serving Children and Families Affected by Disasters | |
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| Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and the End of Life | |
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| Oncology | |
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| Context and Leadership | |
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| Introduction: The Contexts of End-of-Life Care | |
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| Current Legal Issues in End-of-Life Care | |
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| Advanced Directives and Assisted Suicide: Policy Implications for Social Work Practice | |
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| End-of-Life Care in Prisons | |
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| Social Work End-of-Life Research | |
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| Financing End-of-Life Care | |
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| Taking Charge: Social Work Leadership in End-of-Life Care | |
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| The Future of Social Work in End-of-Life Care: A Call to Action | |
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| Relentless Self-Care | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |