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TEACHING RESOURCES FOR END-OF-LIFE AND PALLIATIVE CARE COURSES

Ellen L. Csikai, University of Alabama
Barbara Jones, University of Texas at Austin

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Social workers in all areas of practice encounter end-of-life care issues. This compendium gives a comprehensive view of end-of-life care as taught in MSW, BSW, continuing education, and post-master’s programs. It is a valuable resource for new and seasoned faculty alike, providing concrete guidance that will enrich the classroom experience. Csikai and Jones have compiled a complete resource for social work educators. The book closes a gap in knowledge about end-of-life care and demonstrates how to best incorporate the content into social work programs.

Includes

  • BSW and MSW syllabi
  • Specialty courses on specific topics in end-of-life care
  • Additional self-reflective exercises
  • Additional assignments to supplement syllabi
  • Annotated bibliography of textbooks
  • Continuing education course modules and workshop

Contents

Editors’ Introduction
About This Compendium of Resources
Textbooks

 

Primary Textbooks
Recommended Books

Assessment Tools
  Garthwait: A Century in Review
Murdock: Spirituality and Aging
Self-Reflective Exercises
  Bodek
Murdock
Assignments
  Forrest
Harris
Jones
Murty
Roberts
Sanders
Weisenfluh
BSW Course Syllabi
  Manfred-Gilham: Death, Dying, and Bereavement 
Roff: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Roth: Death and Dying
MSW Syllabi: End-of-Life Care—Comprehensive/Life-Span Content
  Csikai: Social Work Practice in End-of-Life Care
Linder: Death, Dying, and Bereavement: Social Work/Clergy Collaboration to Improve End-of-Life Care
  Lindhorst and Letinich: Caring for Persons with Life-Limiting Illness: A Life-Span Approach
Sanders: Death and Dying: Issues across the Life Span
Schroepfer: Death and Dying: Implications and Challenges for Practice
(BSW and MSW)

MSW Syllabi: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement

  Becvar: Therapeutic Approaches to Loss and Change
De St. Aubin: Social Work Practice with Grief and Loss
Green: Loss and Grief: Individual, Family, and Cultural Perspectives
Kramer: Grief, Death, Loss, and Life
Walsh: Loss, Recovery, Resilience
Walsh-Burke: Grief and Loss (online)
MSW Specialty Course Syllabi
  Bern-Klug: Introduction to Nursing Homes
Harris: When Mourning Is Complicated
Jones: Social Work in Pediatric Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Miller and Hedlund: End-of-Life Decision Making
Sormanti: Clinical Practice with Individuals and Families Coping with Life-Threatening Medical Illness
Stein: Biomedical Ethics
Taylor-Brown: AIDS and Social Work: Policy and Practice Issues
MSW Specialization or Field of Practice
  Murty: University of Iowa, School of Social Work

Course Modules

  Brandsen and Carlsen: Social Work with the Dying and Their Families
Five Curriculum Modules for Educating the Generalist Practitioner

Other Resources

  Bullock: Internet
NASW

Continuing Education

  Liley: Life Transitions: Working with End-of-Life Relationships
(weekend intensive workshop)
Post-Masters Programs
      Smith College/Baystate Medical Center: End-of-Life Care Certificate Program
New York University: Post-Master Certificate Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care

About the Editors

Ellen L. Csikai (PhD, MPH, MSW, University of Pittsburgh) is associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Social Work as well as faculty associate at the Center for Mental Health and Aging. Professor Csikai served as the director of the MSW program at Stephen F. Austin University. She has published numerous articles and is a member of several professional organizations, including the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

Barbara Jones (PhD, MSW, University at Albany) is assistant professor and co-director of the Institute for Grief, Loss, and Family Survival at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. She serves as president for the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers, and was awarded that Lora Lee Pederson Teaching Excellence Award in 2004.

2007, Paper, 338 pages, ISBN 978-1-933478-10-4, Price $33.95
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