Analysis of End-Of-Life Content in Social Work Textbooks

Kramer, Betty J.; Pacourek, Lori; Hovland-Scafe, Cyndi

doi:10.1080/10437797.2003.10779137

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“…While many schools offer one elective on death, dying, and bereavement, there has been less attention to end-of-life issues. In fact, in a survey of 19,223 pages of content in social work textbooks, Kramer et al (2003) found that only a little more than 3% of the content addressed the end of life.…”

Section: The Limits Of Social Work Education In End Of Life Carementioning

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Working at the End of Life: Providing Clinically Based Psychosocial Care

Berzoff

2007

Clin Soc Work J

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Social workers who provide end-of-life care do not always see themselves as clinicians. This paper identifies what is clinical in work with the dying. Social workers routinely elicit sources of cultural and psychological ways of coping, tolerate difficult and painful affects, and balance hope with compassion. They work in multidisciplinary teams and on every level (individual, family, and systemically) to avoid splitting or blame. Further, dying is a relational event. Social workers who work with the dying often stand in the most intimate spaces and therefore use themselves intersubjectively. This work requires considerable courage and self-care.

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Section: The Limits Of Social Work Education In End Of Life Carementioning

confidence: 97%

Working at the End of Life: Providing Clinically Based Psychosocial Care

Berzoff

2007

Clin Soc Work J

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“…Only one fourth of the survey participants believed their schools adequately prepared students for practice in this area of care. More recently, the difficulties of shifting educational norms in social work education to support infusion of relevant material were highlighted in a study by Kramer, Pacourek, and Hovland-Scafe (2003), in which content related to end-of-life care was examined in 50 social work textbooks. Ten areas considered essential for competent social work practice in end-of-life care were used for the content and quantitative data analyses.…”

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Interdisciplinary Education in End-of-Life Care: Creating New Opportunities for Social Work, Nursing, and Clinical Pastoral Education Students

Forrest

Derrick²

2010

Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life & Palliative Care

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This article describes an interdisciplinary, interuniversity program that prepares social work, nursing, and chaplaincy students for competent practice when working with individuals and families facing end-of-life circumstances. Built upon a teaching format that provides knowledge-to-skill-building opportunities, the program immerses students in a range of related content. To maximize integration, the program relies on interdisciplinary team teaching (building knowledge) followed by practice sessions (building skill), in which volunteer actors play the roles of care recipients. With year 3 completed, program administrators have important indicators of the program's effectiveness in offering content specific to end-of-life care using a combination of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary learning strategies. This process has provided valuable lessons related to the nature of interdisciplinary education in end-of-life care.

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“…5,7,[21][22][23][24][25] Caregivers simultaneously respond to the patient's increasing dependence and needs for hands-on care while facing the emotional challenges associated with loss and approaching death. Calls for resource development and education of palliative care nurses, 26 social workers, 27 and physicians 28 have stressed the need for enhanced training in the provision of support and interventions for family caregivers. To summarize, optimal care of the dying is determined, to some extent, by family caregivers and should address strategies to help them in their role.…”

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Final Transitions: Family Caregiving at the End of Life

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Skretny

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Journal of Palliative Medicine

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Background: This study aimed to understand how caregivers make the transition to end-stage caregiving and to illuminate its unique aspects using a stress process model.Methods: Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 74 caregivers of a family member who had been receiving hospice care for at least 2 weeks. Interviews were tape recorded, transcribed, and coded for emergent themes using constant comparative analysis.Results: End-stage caregiving was characterized in the sample as (1) comprehension of terminality (the interrelationship of information, physical and cognitive decline, and personality change and role losses), (2) near-acute care, (3) executive functions, and (4) final decision making. The comprehension of terminality emerged from three interrelated experiences: receiving and assimilating concrete information about the illness, observing the progression of the disease, and observing the personality change and role loss. The primary stressors (unique end-stage caregiving tasks) were providing near-acute care, assuming an executive function, and beginning and final decision making. The secondary stressors were family role conflict, work conflict, and financial strain. Resources, such as intrinsic and extrinsic religious and faith practices and social support, were identified. Negative outcomes included intense emotional responses, and positive outcomes included heightened development of meaning making.Conclusion: The findings suggest that palliative care professionals have important opportunities to provide information and support to family caregivers during the final stages of the patient's terminal illness.

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Analysis of End-Of-Life Content in Social Work Textbooks

Cited by 55 publications

References 25 publications

Working at the End of Life: Providing Clinically Based Psychosocial Care

Working at the End of Life: Providing Clinically Based Psychosocial Care

Interdisciplinary Education in End-of-Life Care: Creating New Opportunities for Social Work, Nursing, and Clinical Pastoral Education Students

Final Transitions: Family Caregiving at the End of Life

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