Life to Be Lived: Challenges and Choices for Patients and Carers in Life-Threatening Illnesses

ISBN-13: 9780199685011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str.

Catherine Proot; Michael Yorke

Opis

How do people face life-limiting illness and death? This challenging question is discussed in-depth in Life to be Lived by looking at the feelings, hopes, fears and stresses associated with life-threatening illness, often experienced by patients and their carers. Drawn from personal research and clinical experience, the authors, who work in bereavement counselling and palliative care, examine the process of adjustment that patients and their families go through nearer the end of life. Case-based examples from counsellors, chaplains, and carers provide an accessible and candid look at the challenges that both patients and carers face when dealing with options from symptom and pain control, communicating the appropriate information to families, to adjusting to the psychosocial implications of being ill. Life to be Lived is essential reading for professionals and trained volunteers who work as a part of multidisciplinary teams in palliative and end of life care to improve understanding of the attitudes and behaviour of their patients. Families and friends will also benefit from the book as they try to come to terms with their own situations and how they can cope better with them. "This publication offers an inspiring way for people in contemporary society to review death as part of life." - David Oliviere, St Christopher's Hospice

Recenzje

This book is about the suffering associated with life-threateneing illness, how some patients and their families seem to manage better, and how good holistic care (with an emphasis on the spiritual aspects of that care) provided by the professional carers may help ameliorate that sufering. Anyone who works in palliative care will be better off for having read this book and reflected on what it says in the context of their own work.

O autorze

Dr Catherine Proot is a psychology graduate of Ghent University Belgium and holds a counselling diploma and a PhD from the UEA in Norwich. Psychotherapist and clinical supervisor she has specialised in palliative and bereavement care since 2005. She currently works as Psychological Specialist in Palliative Care and Bereavement Coordinator in St Nicholas Hospice Care in Bury St Edmunds, UK. The Very Revd Michael Yorke is a Cambridge graduate in Law and Theology. He also studied at The Tavistock Institute in London and the UEA in Norwich. He is a retired Anglican Priest who worked principally in and through four Cathedrals. He has 45 years of experience as a counsellor and was for 18 years a Samaritan three of which as National Chairman. He is currently Vice Chairman to the Norfolk Hospice near Kings Lynn, UK.