Handbook of psychiatry in palliative medicine / edited by Harvey Max Chochinov, William Breitbart.

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Topics include the role of psychiatry in terminal care, diagnosis and management of depression, suicide in the terminally ill, pain management, the nature of suffering in terminal illness, and psychotherapeutic interventions. The book also takes into consideration new directions for psychosocial palliative care research.

Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness -- 1 Hospice: A Psychiatric Perspective -- 2 Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life -- 3 Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care -- 4 Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill -- 5 Anxiety in Palliative Care -- 6 Delirium in the Terminally Ill -- 7 Palliative Care in the Chronically Mentally Ill -- Part II: Symptom Management -- 8 Physical Symptom Management in the Terminally Ill: An Overview for Mental Health Professionals

9 Psychiatric Aspects of Pain Management in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS10 Psychiatric Management of Eating Disorders in Palliative-Care Management of Cancer Patients -- 11 Psychiatric Aspects of Fatigue in the Terminally Ill -- Part III: Psychotherapeutic Intervention and Palliative Care -- 12 Individual Psychotherapy for the Patient with Advanced Disease -- 13 Existential Psychotherapy in Palliative Care -- 14 The Supportive Relationship, the Psychodynamic Life Narrative, and the Dying Patient

15 A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Symptom Management in Palliative Care: Augmenting Somatic Interventions16 Group Psychotherapy and the Terminally Ill -- Part IV: Pediatric Palliative Care -- 17 Psychiatric Care of the Terminally Ill Child -- 18 Psychotherapy with the Dying Child -- Part V: Family and Staff Issues -- 19 Family Issues and Palliative Care -- 20 Communication with Terminally Ill Patients and Their Relatives -- 21 Burnout and Symptoms of Stress in Staff Working in Palliative Care -- 22 Understanding and Managing Bereavement in Palliative Care

Part VI: Ethical and Spiritual Issues23 Ethical Issues in Palliative Care -- 24 Addressing the Needs of the Patient Who Requests Physician-Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia -- 25 Spiritual Care of the Dying Patient -- 26 The Treatment of Suffering in Patients with Advanced Cancer -- Part VII: Research Issues -- 27 Quality Assurance and Audit in Palliative Care -- 28 New Directives for Psychosocial Research in Palliative Medicine -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S

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