Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780199862863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 592 str.

Harvey Max Chochinov; William Breitbart

Opis

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.

Recenzje

A tour-de-force of the psychiatric and psychosocial aspects of palliative medicine... Given the frequency and importance of psychiatric and psychosocial problems, this book will be a very useful resource for practitioners of palliative care and certainly should be available for reference in the library of any palliative care unit.

O autorze

Harvey Max Chochinov is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit at CancerCare Manitoba. William Breitbart is Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Chief of Psychiatry Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University.