A snapshot of Australian social workers in palliative care and their work with estranged clients

Title: A snapshot of Australian social workers in palliative care and their work with estranged clients
Creator: Agllias, Kylie B.
Relation: Social Work in Health Care Vol. 57, Issue 8, p. 620-636
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2018.1474163
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: This paper describes a mixed method survey that was administered to a group of Australian palliative care social workers (n = 27). Specifically, it aimed to investigate the ways that social workers understood and worked with clients who were estranged from family at the end of life. Respondents suggested that estrangement potentially impacted clients emotionally, practically, and existentially. They were challenged to make clear assessments, provide emotional support, encourage news ways of thinking about estrangement, to manage practical issues, work with the client’s family, and monitor their own professional role. Theories and models of intervention and levels of training are also discussed.
Subject: end of life care; family conflict; family estrangement; hospice care; palliative care; psychosocial intervention
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1420065
Identifier: uon:37536
Identifier: ISSN:0098-1389
Language: eng
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