Social Work Practice in Pediatric Palliative and End-of-life Care : Challenges and Opportunities / edited by Barbara L. Jones.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Barbara L. Jones -- 2. Learning to Be: Reflections of a Social Work Student on a Pediatric Hospice Internship / Martha Vargas and Noam Ostrander -- 3. Team Collaboration in Pediatric Palliative Care / Stacy S. Remke and Martha M. Schermer -- 4. Palliative Care in the Pediatric ICU: Challenges and Opportunities for Family-Centered Practice / Ardith Doorenbos, Taryn Lindhorst, Helene Starks, Eugene Aisenberg, J. Randall Curtis, and Ross Hays -- 5. Bereaved Parents' Perspectives on Pediatric Palliative Care / Rhonda Robert, Donna S. Zhukovsky, Riza Mauricio, Katherine Gilmore, Shirley Morrison, and Guadalupe R. Palos -- 6. "I'll Never Forget Those Cold Words as Long as I Live": Parent Perceptions of Death Notification for Stillbirth / Suzanne Pullen, Mindi Ann Golden, and Joanne Cacciatore -- 7. Informing Social Work Practice Through Research With Parent Caregivers of a Child With a Life-Limiting Illness / Susan Cadell, Kimberly Kennedy, and David Hemsworth.

"As an essential and emerging practice, Pediatric palliative care seeks to prevent and relieve suffering for children with life-threatening conditions. Palliative care teams are composed of providers of various disciplines, including social workers, who collaborate to address the medical, social-emotional, and spiritual needs of the child, and their families. Social workers are especially accustomed to interdisciplinary care and may counsel, provide resources, facilitate communication, and promote person- and family-centered practices that are the basis of effective pediatric palliative care. This book presents practice strategies, experiential knowledge, and research related to practicing in-collaborative teams, ICU settings, and hospice. It also presents research that is informed by the perceptions and perspectives of bereaved parents, parents who have suffered a stillbirth, and parent caregivers of children with life-limiting illness. This book highlights the unique role social workers play, within care teams and in relationship with children who have life-limiting illness, and their families. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care."--Publisher's website.