Social work, end-of-life and palliative care -- Death and dying : awareness and uncertainty -- Truth and hope : communication at the end of life -- Engaging and assessing in end-of-life care -- Intervention in end-of-life social work -- Grief and bereavement : ideas and intervention -- Multiprofessional end-of-life care -- Ethical and value issues for end-of-life social work -- Group and macro interventions.