TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical social work education in palliative and end-of-life care
T2 - Relational approaches for advanced practitioners
AU - Berzoff, Joan
AU - Lucas, Georgina
AU - Deluca, Donna
AU - Gerbino, Susan
AU - Browning, David
AU - Foster, Zelda
AU - Chatchkes, Esther
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author was among the first group of social work leaders to receive a grant award from the Project on Death in America. She partnered with Cancer Care, an agency with extensive experience in telephonic provision of clinical seminars, to provide the clinical supervision for the Program. A national recruitment effort brought in the first class of students who had extensive backgrounds in hospice and palliative care, bereavement, and social work education experience. E-blasts to major organizations–such as National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW), Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers (APOSW), the VA system–as well as brochures sent out to over 3,000 hospices, palliative care organizations, nursing homes, and hospitals within the tri-state area helped to bring in more applicants than we could admit to the program.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This paper describes the first post-Master's program in the US in end-of-life care for social workers. Developed at the Smith College School for Social Work, this program used innovative relational methods in student recruitment, curricular design, supervision, and leadership development, based upon input from the faculty, students, and field supervisors. Collaborations emerged with funders, agencies, and programs nationally. The program was based on a pedagogical stance that clinical work with dying people requires the capacity to be fully present- in individual, group, and family work; in interdisciplinary meetings; and in advocating for quality and equity of care-while attending to diverse and at-risk populations. Students deepened their clinical skills and took leadership in the field of end-of-life care.
AB - This paper describes the first post-Master's program in the US in end-of-life care for social workers. Developed at the Smith College School for Social Work, this program used innovative relational methods in student recruitment, curricular design, supervision, and leadership development, based upon input from the faculty, students, and field supervisors. Collaborations emerged with funders, agencies, and programs nationally. The program was based on a pedagogical stance that clinical work with dying people requires the capacity to be fully present- in individual, group, and family work; in interdisciplinary meetings; and in advocating for quality and equity of care-while attending to diverse and at-risk populations. Students deepened their clinical skills and took leadership in the field of end-of-life care.
KW - Clinical internships
KW - Clinical supervision
KW - Curricular design
KW - End-of-life care
KW - Leadership development
KW - Pedagogical approaches
KW - Post-MSW programs
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U2 - 10.1300/J457v02n02_04
DO - 10.1300/J457v02n02_04
M3 - Article
C2 - 17513278
AN - SCOPUS:33847610295
VL - 2
SP - 45
EP - 63
JO - Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care
JF - Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care
SN - 1552-4256
IS - 2
ER -