Spirituality and Hospice Social Work

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By Ann Callahan

Series: End-of-Life Care: A Series

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Spirituality and Hospice Social Work provides hospice social workers with essential guidance to competently address the spiritual needs of their clients. Drawing on multidisciplinary theory and research, it promotes a relational model of spiritually sensitive hospice care. The book covers spiritual assessment techniques and helps practitioners identify clients' spiritual needs, resources, and signs of spiritual suffering. It also explores religious and spiritual practices for coping, emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and ethical professional standards throughout.
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This book is ideal for hospice social workers, social work practitioners, and other professionals involved in end-of-life care who seek to improve their spiritual competence and collaborative skills within hospice settings.

Spirituality and Hospice Social Work helps practitioners understand various forms of spiritual assessment for use with their clients. The book teaches practitioners to recognize a client’s spiritual needs and resources, as well as signs of spiritual suffering.

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Many hospice social workers must address spiritual issues with their clients, but do not feel competent to do so effectively. This targeted volume draws upon multidisciplinary theory and research to advance a relational model of spiritually sensitive hospice care. The book will help readers elevate their spiritual competence and foster a relationship with their clients that will enrich the experience for all involved.

Spirituality and Hospice Social Work helps practitioners understand various forms of spiritual assessment for use with their clients. The book teaches practitioners to recognize a client's spiritual needs and resources, as well as signs of spiritual suffering. It also discusses religious and spiritual practices that clients may use to enhance their spiritual coping.

Spirituality and Hospice Social Work stresses the need for interdisciplinary collaboration with other members of the hospice team, along with the value of maintaining professional ethical standards when addressing spiritual issues. Throughout, the importance of spiritual sensitivity and its effect upon client well-being is emphasized.

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Praised as an important and practical resource, this book fills a critical gap by equipping social workers and hospice professionals to provide sensitive spiritual care at the end of life. Reviewers highlight its integration of scholarly research with practical application, helping enhance interprofessional spiritual care. It is recommended for anyone involved in end-of-life care seeking to deepen their understanding and improve client well-being through spirituality.

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ISBN: 9780231171731

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 February 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Columbia University Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 232

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Ann Callahan Education & Reference Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: End-of-Life Care: A Series

About the Author

Ann M. Callahan is professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Social Work. She has a license in clinical social work with more than twenty years of social work related clinical, administrative, and teaching experience. For the past ten years, she has been researching the spiritual dimensions of the therapeutic relationship in an effort to inform quality hospice social work.

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