About Us

Palliative Social Work has been around for about 25 years. Medical Social Work has been around for over 100 years.

We thought it important to have a place where the history and  materials that came from the architects of this specialty would be available to other PSW and the public. PalliativeSocialWork.org is meant to be a repository for the history, accomplishments, challenges of this field. 

Learn About Our History

Decades of experience

There is a lot to say about the history of Palliative Social Work, Health Social Work and Medical Social Work.

"Social Workers don't look away"

Diane Meier, 2022. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work