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This is the first book to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, incorporating leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime hospice social work practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work. She introduces a well-tested model of psychosocial and spiritual variables that predict hospice client outcomes, and

This aim of this article is to critically examine how the concept of culture is used in Sweden to explain the "failure" or the difficulties that Muslim immigrant families are experiencing with regards to their integration into the dominant society. Whereas, the Swedish society is often represented as 'modern', 'progressive', and 'democratic', immigrants with Muslim backgrounds are predominately described as 'traditional', 'authoritarian' and 'pre-modern'. There is a widely held idea within Swedish social work research that immigrant families and the white mainstream Swedish society are situated within two different value systems with different world-views regarding family and gender relations. Due to this entrenched binary opposition, Orientalism becomes constitutive to social work research and practices.

This article discusses the encroachment of neoliberal ideology on social work education, by emphasizing the experiences of two young academics in dealing with this impact at the level of teaching, research and writing. The central argument is that the basic values of our profession are threatened if as academics we remain inattentive to the impacts of this ideology on social work education.