Palliative Caring: The Essential Role of Social Work in Spiritual Care
摘要
Social workers are an essential part of interprofessional teams providing palliative caring to diverse individuals facing serious illness, mortality, and end of life. Using biopsychosocial-spiritual assessments, advocacy, and clinical counselling skills to address a range of concerns including access and barriers to care as well as commonly occurring issues related to coping, life review and meaning making, social workers provide whole person care with a focus on the person in their environment.