Description
What's in the Syringe? offers a succinct overview of the psychological skills of outpatient palliative care, teaching clinicians how to help patients live well and acknowledge end of life as patients meet five challenges of serious illness. It explores how to help patients develop prognostic awareness, through the development of which patients pair hopes and worries and see themselves with clarity and empathy. The book also teaches clinicians how to support patients' coping skills. As patients use these skills, they improve their quality of life and deepen their prognostic awareness, helping them make informed medical and personal decisions as they approach end of life. Illustrated, case-based chapters are organized from diagnosis to end of life and draw on two decades of research and clinical experience. Each chapter describes how palliative care and oncology clinicians can collaborate and explains the interpretive role of the palliative care clinician in helping the patient and oncologist understand each other. What's in the Syringe? is an essential resource for palliative care fellows, trainees, and clinicians, for oncologists, primary care clinicians, and medical students, and for any care providers working with patients facing serious illness.Advanced Praise for What's in the Syringe?"This valuable guide brings clarity to the skills and techniques "inside the syringe" that can support therapeutic relationships and adaptive coping in patients and families living with advanced cancer. The clinical wisdom and practical advice in this book have the potential to transform good intentions into the delivery of more effective and humanistic clinical care."-- Gary Rodin, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care (GIPPEC)"I love this book. It puts in words and clear guidance what I have struggled to learn over 25 years of practice in palliative care-how to accompany our patients and our colleagues all the way through the long journey of a serious illness, and the healing power of our relationship, our presence, and our words in tempering the sting of loss."-- Diane Meier, MD, Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Table of Contents
1. Adapting to the Diagnosis2. Pairing Hopes and Worries3. Living Well with Serious Illness4. Deepening Prognostic Awareness5. Acknowledging End of Life
