Foreword by Dorothy Rowe.; Acknowledgements.; Introduction.; Part One: The background to palliative care social work.; 1. Palliative Care: A new perspective. Part Two: What service users say.; 2. Becoming involved with palliative care.; 3. Starting the palliative care social work journey.; 4. What does the social worker do?; 5. What service users value most.; 6. Working with difference.; 7. Exploring outcomes: evaluating specialist palliative care social work. Part Three: Developing the discussion.; 8. Accessing specialist palliative care social work: a broader image problem.; 9. The problem of referral.; 10. The nature, strengths and weaknesses of practice.; 11. Theory and practice.; 12. Specialist palliative care social work: a service in the shadows?; 13. Issues for the future. Appendix One: How we carried out the research. Appendix Two: The interview schedule. References. Subject index. Author index.
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