Social Work in End-Of-Life and Palliative Care

by Margaret Reith and Malcolm Payne

This succinct yet comprehensive book written by Margaret Reith and Malcolm Payne combines the authors' more than 70 years of social work experience to provide a definitive introduction to social work practice in end-of-life and palliative care.

Reith and Payne trace the development of palliative care and the important role of social work within it. The book's unique sociological focus on required practitioner knowledge of death, dying, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190616229
• ISBN13: 9780190616229
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"