Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1976
College/Unit
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department/Program/Center
Social Work
Abstract
The concept of contracting by social workers is a useful way to describe the normative bounds of client-worker interaction. A growing literature on death and dying in recent years suggests first that long-term care institutions are increasingly the locales for dying in our society and that social workers and other professionals working in such locales have frequently dealt inadequately or not at all with the social and emotional dimensions of death and dying in institutional settings. This article proposes that the social work contract with terminally ill patients be extended to include their survivors.
Digital Commons Citation
Lohmann, Roger A. and Gaddis, Carl, "The Social Work Contract and Survivorship Services" (1976). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 1163.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/1163
Source Citation
A revised version of this manuscript was published in The Archives of the Foundation of Thanatology. 5.1 1976. 68.
Comments
This is an author's preprint, typed into electronic form from the original typed manuscript. In 1976, this proposal was considered quite novel. Extending (or at least offering) continuing services to survivors is now fairly conventional practice, thanks largely to better understanding of grief and the development of hospice services.