Palliative social work
oral history of Palliative Social Work specialty, resources, publications, education, connections
About the Oral History of Palliative Social Work Project
Purpose: Capture the Legacy of the Palliative Social Work Specialty.
Our goal is to build an anthology of interviews with architects who created the specialty and with many who advanced essential aspects of Palliative Social Work such as certification and fellowship development to document its rich legacy.
Process: We intend to record this history with audio/video interviews to capture the words of those who were instrumental in building our specialty.
Our intention is to share these interviews, along with other resources and historical documents on this website. which is available to the public.
The project is not affiliated with any organization
Explore Palliative Social Work
Oral History of PSW Project:
Resources for PSW
Education
Books
Our Expertise
Training
Education
The Reflections Project
including extensive bibliography
The Architects
Meet the Architects of Palliative Social Work: Hear their Stories
We are posting our interviews along with related content. Check it out!
You can also listen to this episode on our Apple Podcast
The power of palliative social work
Palliative Social Work has a rich tradition of providing psychosocial and psychological interventions in support of people managing serious illness. We use a “person-in-environment” perspective which helps us to see the whole person, how illness may impact their life, family and psychological well-being as well as the practical aspects of living such as finances and housing.
What our Colleagues say
“If ours were a logical system, most people working and most of the money in healthcare would be under the control of social workers…social workers never look away.”
Diane E. Meier
Pg xviii Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, 2022.
