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

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

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

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

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction

Part 1 Textbooks
1.		Primary Textbooks
2.		Recommended Books

Part 2 Assessment Tools
3.		Cindy Garthwait: A Century in Review: A Decade-by-Decade Social and Historical Timeline
4.		Vicki Murdoch: Spirituality and Aging

Part 3 Self-Reflective Exercises
5.		Hillel Bodek: Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic and Terminal Illness: Taking Care of Our Patients and Ourselves
6.		Vicki Murdoch: Some Death/Dying/Loss Activities for the Classroom

Part 4 Assignments
7.		Cynthia Forrest: Loss, Grief, and Social Work Interventions
8.		Helen Harris: Care for the Dying
9.		Barbara Jones: Loss and Grief: Individual, Family, and Cultural Perspectives
10.		Susan Murty: Selected Aspects of Social Work and Social Welfare: Introductory Seminar in End of Life in Rural Communities
11.		Jane Roberts: Grief and Loss: Practice with Individuals and Groups
12.		Sara Sanders: Grief Therapy
13.		Sherri Weisenfluh: Topical Seminar in Social Work: End-of-Life Care

Part 5 BSW Course Syllabi and Modules
14.		Jerry Jo Manfred-Gilham: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
15.		Lucinda Lee Roff: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
16.		Sheila Gillespie Roth: Death and Dying
17.		Cheryl Brandsen and Mary Carlsen: Social Work with the Dying and Their Families: Five Curriculum Modules for Education the Generalist Practitioner

Part 6 MSW Syllabi: End-of-Life Care – Comprehensive / Life-Span Content
18.		Csikai: Social Work Practice in End-of-Life Care
19.		John Linder: Death, Dying, and Bereavement: Social Work/Clergy Collaboration to Improve End-of-Life Care
20.		Taryn Lindhorst and Bonnie Letinich: Caring for Persons with Life-Limiting Illness: A Life-Span Approach
21.		Sara Sanders: Death and Dying: Issues across the Life Span
22.		Tracy Schroepfer: Death an Dying: Implications and Challenges for Practice

Part 7 MSW Syllabi: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
23.		Dorothy S. Becvar: Therapeutic Approaches to Loss and Change
24.		Mark de St. Aubin: Social Work Practice with Grief and Loss
25.		Diane Green: Loss and Grief: Individual, Family, and Cultural Perspectives
26.		Betty J. Kramer: Grief, Death, Loss, and Life
27.		Froma Walsh: Loss, Recovery, and Resilience
28.		Katherine Walsh: Loss and Grief

Part 8 MSW Specialty Course Syllabi
29.		Mercedes Bern-Klug: Introduction to Nursing Homes
30.		Helen Harris: When Mourning is Complicated
31.		Barbara Jones: Social Work in Pediatric Palliative and End-of-Life Care
32.		Susan Hedlund and Pamela Miller: End-of-Life Decision Making
33.		Mary Sormanti: Clinical Practice with Individuals and Families Coping with Life-Threatening Medical Illness
34.		Gary Stein: Biomedical Ethics
35.		Susan Taylor-Brown: AIDS and Social Work: Policy and Practice Issues

Part 9 Specialty Programs
36.		Susan Murty: University of Iowa, School of Social Work
37.		Denice Goodrich Liley: Life Transitions: Working with End-of-Life Relationships
38.		Joan Berzoff: Smith College/Baystate Medical Center End-of-Life Care Certificate Program
39.		Susan Gerbino: New York University Post-Master’s Certificate Program: Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Part 10 Other Resources
40.		Karen Bullock: Resource Enrichment Center
41.		Karyn Walsh: National Association of Social Workers

Contributors

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, 334 pages, ISBN 978-1-933478-10-4, Price $44.95