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Psycho-Oncology in Palliative and End-of-Life Care provides expert
advice and clinical management guidelines on the impact of advanced
cancer and its treatment on the life and wellbeing of a patient in
palliative and end-of-life care. Employing a practical toolkit
format, this volume addresses a variety of key challenges
including: discussions of death and dying, poor prognoses, wishes
and values of the dying person, advance care plans, anxiety,
demoralization and problems with coping, depression and delirium,
the needs of partners, children, families, and caregivers, and
spiritual and bereavement care. Each chapter considers presenting
symptoms, differential diagnoses and assessment methods to achieve
the best diagnosis, so that a detailed formulation can be developed
for each person that guides a comprehensive management plan. Each
section concludes with professional and service issues ranging from
ethical dilemmas, legal requirements, cultural needs, and training
and service development issues, through to basic human rights. Part
of the Psycho-Oncology Care: Companion Guides for Clinicians
series, this concise pocket guide is a resource for oncology
specialists, psycho-oncologists in training, consultant nurse
specialists and nurse practitioners, and allied health
professionals to use as a quick reference in everyday practice.
Pitched at intermediate to advanced level skills, this companion
guide can be used as a standalone, or alongside existing oncology
and psycho-oncology training programs.
Psychiatric, or psychosocial, palliative care has transformed
palliative medicine. Palliation that neglects psychosocial
dimensions of patient and family experience fails to meet
contemporary standards of comprehensive palliative care. While a
focus on somatic issues has sometimes overshadowed attention to
psychological, existential, and spiritual end-of-life challenges,
the past decade has seen an all encompassing, multi-disciplinary
approach to care for the dying take hold. Written by
internationally known psychiatry and palliative care experts, the
Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine is an essential
reference for all providers of palliative care, including
psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors,
oncologists, hospice workers, and social workers.
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