Psychosocial Palliative Care - Softcover

Breitbart, William S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019991740X ISBN 13: 9780199917402

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process. Patients with cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses are at increased risk for the development of major psychiatric complications, and have an enormous burden of both physical and psychological symptoms. Concepts of adequate palliative care must be expanded beyond the current focus on pain and physical symptom control to include the psychiatric, psychosocial, existential, and spiritual aspects of care. The psycho-oncologist, as a consultant to or member of a palliative care team, has a unique role and opportunity to fulfill this promise of competent and compassionate palliative care for those with life-threatening illnesses. Psychosocial Palliative Care guides the psycho-oncologist through the most salient aspects of effective psychiatric care of patients with advanced illnesses. This handbook reviews basic concepts and definitions of palliative care and the experience of dying, the assessment and management of major psychiatric complications of life-threatening illness, including psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and covers issues such as bereavement, spirituality, cultural sensitivity, communication and psychiatric contributions to common physical symptom control. A global perspective on death and palliative care is taken throughout the text, and an Appendix provides a comprehensive list of international palliative care resources and training programs.

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Review:

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I thought this was a gem of a little book . . . it is a pocket-sized and succinct guide to the psychological and psychiatric problems encountered in palliative care, not just with the oncology patients, but I think it will be of value to any doctors or nurses working in palliative care. (Dr. Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Book Reviews)

This book provides up-to-date, referenced information brought together into one punchy source, and will undoubtedly prove useful to those working in the palliative care setting. (Christian Hosker, European Journal of Palliative Care Book Review)

About the Author:

BB: Chief, Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Past President, International Psychosocial Oncology Society (2010); YA: Assistant Attending Psychiatrist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; with the International Psycho-Oncology Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 019991740X
• ISBN 13: 9780199917402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Alici Yesne