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Here is an excellent new book packed with state-of-the-art
information on thanatology. It presents valuable insights on the
history, current issues, and future directions for the modern death
movement. This comprehensive volume is unique in that it offers
multiple perspectives on the issues and problems facing the
thanatology movement in the United States from well-known experts
in a variety of fields, including nursing, psychology, death
education, medicine, ethics, and suicide prevention. By crossing
disciplinary boundaries, these authoritative contributors are able
to critically examine the entire thanatological community and
provide glimpses of an agenda for the 1990s. The Thanatology
Community and the Needs of the Movement provides valuable insights
on important issues in the field such as: ethical concerns in
thanatology setting standards for the field of thanatology advocacy
and empowerment for the dying, the bereaved, and their caregivers
effective approaches to death education for professionals and for
the public sector suicide prevention Individual chapters address
such pertinent topics as educational needs in thanatology, the
undervaluation of caregiving, policy legislation for issues facing
the terminally ill or bereaved, and the care of children facing
death. This groundbreaking book gives death educators, academic
nurses, clergy, divinity school faculty, and academic and clinical
psychologists the keys to advancing scholarship and practice in the
field of thanatology. Its interdisciplinary focus facilitates
better cooperation between academics and practitioners to
ultimately enhance all services for the dying and bereaved.
This thoughtful new book presents strategies for helping end-stage
renal disease patients and their families deal with the
psychosocial aspects of the chronic long-term illness.
Technological advances in the treatment of this disease have
offered much hope for improved quality in living which has led
caregivers to have a greater concern for preserving the quality of
life of their patients. In Psychosocial Aspects of End-Stage Renal
Disease leaders in the field of many disciplines share knowledge
and reveal problems that are still evident to them in the
confrontation with this potentially fatal illness.Five
comprehensive sections devote special attention to the different
areas of concern for the psychosocial well-being of end-stage renal
disease patients. The impact of renal disease on family
relationships is covered by examining issues of family responses
and coping measures such as marital and family reactions to home
and hospital dialysis treatment. Ethical issues in treatment are
explored, including the ethics of treatment refusal and a Jewish
perspective on kidney transplants. Relations between staff and
patients and a timely section on renal disease and special
populations, particularly the elderly and AIDS patients, make up
the final two sections of this informative volume. Professionals in
all allied health disciplines will benefit from this important
volume as it demonstrates a model approach, if not the definitive
one, for the treatment of the psychosocial aspects of end-stage
renal disease as well as other chronic illnesses.
Here is an excellent new book packed with state-of-the-art
information on thanatology. It presents valuable insights on the
history, current issues, and future directions for the modern death
movement. This comprehensive volume is unique in that it offers
multiple perspectives on the issues and problems facing the
thanatology movement in the United States from well-known experts
in a variety of fields, including nursing, psychology, death
education, medicine, ethics, and suicide prevention. By crossing
disciplinary boundaries, these authoritative contributors are able
to critically examine the entire thanatological community and
provide glimpses of an agenda for the 1990s. The Thanatology
Community and the Needs of the Movement provides valuable insights
on important issues in the field such as: ethical concerns in
thanatology setting standards for the field of thanatology advocacy
and empowerment for the dying, the bereaved, and their caregivers
effective approaches to death education for professionals and for
the public sector suicide prevention Individual chapters address
such pertinent topics as educational needs in thanatology, the
undervaluation of caregiving, policy legislation for issues facing
the terminally ill or bereaved, and the care of children facing
death. This groundbreaking book gives death educators, academic
nurses, clergy, divinity school faculty, and academic and clinical
psychologists the keys to advancing scholarship and practice in the
field of thanatology. Its interdisciplinary focus facilitates
better cooperation between academics and practitioners to
ultimately enhance all services for the dying and bereaved.
This thoughtful new book presents strategies for helping end-stage
renal disease patients and their families deal with the
psychosocial aspects of the chronic long-term illness.
Technological advances in the treatment of this disease have
offered much hope for improved quality in living which has led
caregivers to have a greater concern for preserving the quality of
life of their patients. In Psychosocial Aspects of End-Stage Renal
Disease leaders in the field of many disciplines share knowledge
and reveal problems that are still evident to them in the
confrontation with this potentially fatal illness.Five
comprehensive sections devote special attention to the different
areas of concern for the psychosocial well-being of end-stage renal
disease patients. The impact of renal disease on family
relationships is covered by examining issues of family responses
and coping measures such as marital and family reactions to home
and hospital dialysis treatment. Ethical issues in treatment are
explored, including the ethics of treatment refusal and a Jewish
perspective on kidney transplants. Relations between staff and
patients and a timely section on renal disease and special
populations, particularly the elderly and AIDS patients, make up
the final two sections of this informative volume. Professionals in
all allied health disciplines will benefit from this important
volume as it demonstrates a model approach, if not the definitive
one, for the treatment of the psychosocial aspects of end-stage
renal disease as well as other chronic illnesses.
Physicians and other helping professionals have created a
practical, hands-on book that will aid in the identification and
reduction of job stress. Nurses, physicians, thanatologists, and
psychotherapists are among the growing number of health care
professionals whose physical and mental health are being severely
affected by work stress. This unique volume achieves what no
earlier book has attempted for this specialized professional group.
It offers a thorough understanding of professional burnout,
elaborating how burnout develops and offering a model with which to
identify job stressors. Professional Burnout in Medicine and the
Helping Professions also offers an in-depth exploration of stress
and burnout issues from the perspectives of specific medical and
helping profession disciplines--physicians, nurses, social workers,
psychotherapists, teachers, consultants, agency and hospital
workers, funeral directors, and more.Experts in these fields
examine the values, ethics, and morality of individuals, health
care organizations, and society that may lead to burnout This
in-depth and highly practical volume identifies the stages of
disillusionment and offers successful intervention strategies for
recognizing the signs and reducing or efficiently managing
causative factors.
Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars,
Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from
both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have
aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary
approach to the care and support of the dying child, the child's
family unit, and staff who work with dying children. The findings
presented here are also applicable to care of children with
life-threatening illness. Topics discussed include: children's
concepts of death; emotional impact of disease; perspectives on
children's death and dying; and coping with a child's death.
The essays in this volume stress the legitimacy and importance of
the role of administering comfort and reassurance to the terminally
ill. This book is a practical guide for caring for the dying and
those they leave behind, written especially for the clergy. The
book is divided into three sections: an overview of the pastoral
role; death and dying; and loss and grief. Among the topics covered
are community resources, interdisciplinary care skills; education
and research; working with health care professionals; loss as an
experience in living; family issues in coping with change and loss
resulting from surgery and chronic illness; and issues and
strategies in managing anticipatory grief and bereavement.
Aspects of cancer and cancer therapies; long-term adjustments of
renal donors and recipients; community life (including support
facilities and home dialysis); medical aspects of End Stage Renal
Disease (ESRD); psychiatric disturbances; public policy issues; the
role of the doctor, staff, and society, sexuality and loss of
sexual function, surgical aspects; and anticipatory grief, acute
grief, and bereavement are all discussed in this book for
caregivers working with ESRD patients.
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