Resource Library
Online Courses
- Social Work and End of Life Care
AOSW, 6.0 CEUs - Social Work and End of Life Care II
AOSW, 4.0 CEUs - The Social Work Survival Toolbox: Advocacy Training
for social workers in oncology and related fields
AOSW, 6.0 CEUs - Understanding End of Life Care: The Social Worker’s Role
NASW, 2.0 CEUs (free) - Understanding Cancer: The Social Worker’s Role
NASW, 2.0 CEUs (free) - Understanding Aging: The Social Worker’s Role
NASW, 2.0 CEUs (free) - Helping Students Cope with Trauma and Loss
for school personnel
CUSSW, 3.0 G Credits NYC
Textbooks
- Teaching Resources for End of Life and Palliative Care Courses
by Ellen L. Csikai and Barbara Jones, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-933478-10-4 - Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life Span
by Nancy R. Hooyman and Betty J. Kramer, 2006
ISBN: 0-231-12246-2 - Ethics In End-of-life Decisions in Social Work Practice
by Ellen L. Csikai and Elizabeth Chaitin, 2005
ISBN: 0925065528 - Grief and Loss: Theories and Skills for Helping Professionals
by Katherine Walsh-Burke, 2005
ISBN: 0205398812 - Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
Edited by Joan Berzoff and Phyllis Silverman, 2004
ISBN: 0-231-12794-4 - Healing Children’s Grief: Surviving a Parent’s Death from Cancer
by Grace Hyslop Christ, 2000
ISBN: 0195105915
Certificate Programs
- Post-Master’s Certificate in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
New York University (NYU) School of Social Work - 40 CEUs
Minimum of one year of experience in palliative and end-of-life care related work.
Interdisciplinary Programs
- College of Palliative Care - Scholars Program
Scholar retreat program, Sept 17-19, 2007 - Advocating for Clinical Excellence - Transdisciplinary Palliative Care Education
Four annual courses beginning in 2007
Practice Standards
- NASW Standards for Social Work Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care - NASW, 2005
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care
National Consensus Project, 2005 - Crosswalk of JCAHO Standards & Palliative Care - CAPC, 2004
E-mail Discussions
- SW-PALL-EOL Listserv for Social Work Practitioners
Academic Journals
- Innovations in End-of-Life Care Journal
- Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
- Journal of Palliative Care
- Journal of Palliative Medicine (*see selected relevant articles)
- Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
- Journal of Psycho-Oncology
- Journal of Social Work Education
- Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care
- Qualitative Social Work Journal
Additional Links
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Americans for Better Care of the Dying
- Association of Oncology Social Work
- Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- City of Hope Pain Resource Center
- College of Palliative Care at AAHPM
- Council on Social Work Education
- Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life
- Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative
- Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
- International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- National Palliative Care Research Center
- Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care