Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care

A Community Based Approach for Life Limiting Illness
Herausgeber: Lloyd-Williams, Mari

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition examines the current provision of psychosocial support, taking into account the community approaches of psychosocial care, the role of volunteers in supporting psychosocial needs, and the needs of the frail elderly. It is essential reading for the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, and primary care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198806677
• ISBN-10: 0198806671
• Artikelnr.: 50499669

Autorenporträt

Professor Mari Lloyd-Williams qualified from Leicester University medical school. She was appointed Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer to the University of Leicester Hospitals Trust and LOROs Hospice prior to moving to the University of Liverpool as Consultant and Senior Lecturer. ln 2003 Mari was promoted to a personal chair. She has published over 150 papers and lectures both nationally and internationally and is lead of the highly successful Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group. Mari has served on several national committees and working parties and lives with her family in North Wales where she enjoys cooking, reading and long walks in the countryside.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Aliki Karapliagou, Allan Kellehear, and Klaus Wegleitner: The
public health end-of-life care movement: History, principles, and
styles of practice
* 2: Alexandra Mancini and Paula Abramson: Communication and
psychosocial issues within neonatal palliative care
* 3: Philip J. Larkin: The call to social inclusion: Psychosocial care
for the marginalized in society
* 4: Linda McEnhill: Psychosocial care in diverse communities and
encouraging communities to support each other
* 5: Nigel Hartley: Models of psychosocial care for patients and their
families: The role of volunteers in supporting psychosocial needs
* 6: Karen Harrison Dening: Dementia, multimorbidity and frailty
* 7: David W. Kissane: Psychosocial care of families in palliative care
* 8: Susan McClement: The meaning of dignity in psychosocial care
* 9: Matthew Hotopf: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of depression
in advanced disease
* 10: Luigi Grassi, Maria Giulia Nanni, and Rosangela Caruso:
Psychotherapeutic interventions
* 11: Mark Cobb: Spiritual care
* 12: Allison M. Marziliano, Wendy Lichtenthal, and Holly G. Prigerson:
Diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD)