Full Description
Caring for terminally ill patients and their families is challenging. Patients with life limiting illness require the skills of many professionals but also the support of their community. While most clinicians are comfortable in assessing a broad range of physical problems, it is often the psychosocial issues that prove the most complex. These issues range from psychosocial assessment to the treatment and care of patients with life limiting illnesses. Evaluating emotional, social and spiritual needs, in particular, requires excellent teamwork.
This fully-updated and expanded new edition takes a comprehensive look at current practice and provision of psychosocial support as applied to a range of palliative care patients. A number of important areas are covered including community approaches of psychosocial care, neonatal palliative care, the provision of psychosocial care to families, the role of volunteers in supporting palliative care professionals, and the needs of the frail elderly, marginalised patients, and those with dementia.
Including multiple case study examples, this highly practical text examines current literature and evidence to demonstrate the best research-based practice in psychosocial care. It is an essential resource for professionals working within hospitals and communities in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, counselling, primary care, and mental health.
Contents
1: Aliki Karapliagou, Allan Kellehear, and Klaus Wegleitner: The public health end-of-life care movement: History, principles, and styles of practice
2: Alexandra Mancini and Paula Abramson: Communication and psychosocial issues within neonatal palliative care
3: Philip J. Larkin: The call to social inclusion: Psychosocial care for the marginalized in society
4: Linda McEnhill: Psychosocial care in diverse communities and encouraging communities to support each other
5: Nigel Hartley: Models of psychosocial care for patients and their families: The role of volunteers in supporting psychosocial needs
6: Karen Harrison Dening: Dementia, multimorbidity and frailty
7: David W. Kissane: Psychosocial care of families in palliative care
8: Susan McClement: The meaning of dignity in psychosocial care
9: Matthew Hotopf: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of depression in advanced disease
10: Luigi Grassi, Maria Giulia Nanni, and Rosangela Caruso: Psychotherapeutic interventions
11: Mark Cobb: Spiritual care
12: Allison M. Marziliano, Wendy Lichtenthal, and Holly G. Prigerson: Diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD)
