Living with Dying

Joan Berzoff is professor and codirector of the doctoral program at Smith College School for Social Work and director of the End of Life Certificate Program at Smith. She is the coauthor of Inside Out and Outside In: Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Practice in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts and Disassociative Identity Orders: The Controversy in Diagnosis and Treatment. She is the recent recipient of the Social Work Leadership Development Award from the Project on Death in America. Phyllis R. Silverman, Ph.D., is scholar-in-residence at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center and professor emerita at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She is recognized internationally for her research with the widowed and grieving children. Her writing includes Widower: When Men Are Left Alone, Continuing Bonds: A New Understanding of Grief, Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives, and a new edition of Widow-to-Widow.

Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgments Foreword, by Thomas R. Egnew Introduction Part I Narratives in End-of-Life Care 1. Fragments of Love: Explorations in the Ethnography of Suffering and Professional Caregiving, by David Browning 2. The Symptom Is Stillness: Living with and Dying from ALS, by Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey 3. The Loss of a Child to Cancer: From Case to Caseworker, by Roberta Hoffman 4. September 11: Reflections on Living with Dying in Disaster Relief, by es Gallo-Silver and Penny Damaskos Part II Theoretical Aspects of Death and Dying Introduction: Theory 5. What Is a Respectful Death? by Stu Farber, Thomas Egnew, and Annalu Farber 6. Dying and Bereavement in Historical Perspective, by Phyllis R. Silverman 7. The History of Social Work in Hospice, by Mary Raymer and Dona Reese 8. The Interdisciplinary Team: An Oxymoron? by Inge B. Corless and Patrice K. Nicholas 9. Ethical issues in End-of-Life Care: Social Work and Facilitation and Proactive Intervention, by Patricia O'Donnell 10. Spirituality and End-of-Life Care Practice for Social Workers, by Carolyn Jacobs 11. Gender and Death: Parallel and Intersecting Pathways, by Illene C. Noppe 12. Bereavement: A Time of Transition and Changing Relationships, by Phyllis R. Silverman 13. Psychodynamic Theories in Grief and Bereavement, by Joan Berzoff Part III Clinical Practice Issues in End-of-Life Care Introduction: Clinical Practice 14. The Trajectory of Illness, by Allen Levine and Wendy Karger 15. Clinical Social Work Practice at the End of Life, by Felice Zilberfein and Elizabeth Hurwitz 16. The End of Life at the Beginning of Life: Working with Dying Children and Their Families, by Nancy Cincotta 17. Working with Dying and Bereaved Older People, by Sue Thompson and Neil Thompson 18. Assessing Mental Health Risk in End-of-Life Care, by Katherine Walsh-Burke 19. Pain and Symptom Management: An Essential Role for Social Work, by Terry Altilio