David Cooper, Jo Cooper

Palliative Care Within Mental Health

Care and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new title provides an insight into how to apply the quality care and practice of palliative care within mental health practice, using a multidisciplinary approach. It focuses on intervention, treatment, care and practice, and the similarities in practice between palliative care and mental health. Including authoritative contributions from international experts, each chapter develops a theoretical framework, and then broadens it to include application in practice, addressing what/when/where/why with a definite focus on implementation in practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781846198915
• ISBN-10: 1846198917
• Artikelnr.: 42386076

Autorenporträt

David Cooper, Jo Cooper

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. About the editors. List of contributors. Terminology. Cautionary
note. Other books by the editors. Acknowledgements. Dedication. Palliative
care within mental health: the need. Compassion, respect and dignity.
Overcoming ethical dilemmas. Overcoming cultural dilemmas. The family.
End-of-life. Assessment. Pain management. The young person and suicide.
Long-term mental health. Dementia, Alzheimer's and confusion.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and palliative care. Euthanasia, assisted suicide
and mental health. Palliative care and substance use: special
considerations. The heart of care and caring. Index.