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EAPC
projects or Taskforces
Social
Workers Meeting at the 2005 Congress in Aachen
At
every EAPC conference there is an opportunity to get together
to share interests and concerns with colleagues from Europe.
This year we met in Aachen and it was a chance to meet up
with old friends and to meet new social workers. During the
meeting several social workers expressed concern about the
dwindling number of specialist social workers in some European
countries. There was anxiety about what was seen as a diminution
of the role . It was suggested that it would be useful to
collate articles specifically about the role and tasks of
palliative care social workers. I am happy to receive references
and to then distribute them to colleagues. In the UK there
is an organisation for palliative care social workers which
has nearly 300 members and this was felt to be extremely supportive
to social workers who are very often in single-handed posts,
however this is the only national organisation of this type.
Please contact me with articles/research about palliative
care social work and if you are working in this field why
not contribute to the European Journal Of Palliative Care
or Palliative Medicine? The 2007 congress is in Budapest think
about sending an abstract- celebrate our skills. In the mean-time
email me with references at pam.firth@isabelhospice.org.uk
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