School of Social Work
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Strengthening Social Work Education to Improve End-of-Life Care

Although social workers have important practice roles supporting families and individuals coping with terminal illness, grief, loss, and bereavement in a variety of settings, educational gaps often leave them ill-prepared to competently fulfill these roles. This project will develop end-of-life content guidelines for the social work profession, building upon the current standards used by medicine and nursing; to use these guidelines to conduct a critical review of the most frequently used textbooks in social work education; and to write a text that addresses some of the gaps identified in this review in order to enhance educational resources available to educators, students, and practitioners.

Madison, WI  |  $67,000