And continuing with the articles in the January Palliative Medicine relevant to social work, there’s a thoughtful review of articles about bereavement risk assessment, which gives you a lot of information and ends up by saying that the adult attitudes to grief scale might be involving and helpful where people actually ask for bereavement help, but some more structured instruments should also be researched for use in this kind of situation.

Sensible.

A. Agnew, R. Manktelow, BJ Taylor, and L. Jones Bereavement needs assessment in specialist palliative care: a review of the literature
Palliat Med 2010 24: 46-59

Then there’s an article which is more Palliative Medicine, entitled: French general practitioners vary in their attitudes toward treating terminally ill patients. Galaxy-shattering topic and findings, with lots of graphs too.