Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care: A Community Based Approach for Life Limiting Illness / Edition 3

by Mari Lloyd-Williams

Overview

Caring for terminally ill patients and their families is challenging. Patients with life limiting illness require the skills of many professionals but also the support of their community. While most clinicians are comfortable in assessing a broad range of physical problems, it is often the psychosocial issues that prove the most complex. These issues range from psychosocial assessment to the treatment and care of patients with life limiting illnesses. Evaluating emotional, social and spiritual needs, in particular, requires excellent teamwork.

This fully-updated and expanded new edition takes a comprehensive look at current practice and provision of psychosocial support as applied to a range of palliative care patients. A number of important areas are covered including community approaches of psychosocial care, neonatal palliative care, the provision of psychosocial care to families, the role of volunteers in supporting palliative care professionals, and the needs of the frail elderly, marginalised patients, and those with dementia.

Including multiple case study examples, this highly practical text examines current literature and evidence to demonstrate the best research-based practice in psychosocial care. It is an essential resource for professionals working within hospitals and communities in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, counselling, primary care, and mental health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198806677
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/22/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mari Lloyd-Williams, Professor and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, University of Liverpool

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.

Table of Contents

1. The public health end-of-life care movement: History, principles, and styles of practice, Aliki Karapliagou, Allan Kellehear, and Klaus Wegleitner2. Communication and psychosocial issues within neonatal palliative care, Alexandra Mancini and Paula Abramson3. The call to social inclusion: Psychosocial care for the marginalized in society, Philip J. Larkin4. Psychosocial care in diverse communities and encouraging communities to support each other, Linda McEnhill5. Models of psychosocial care for patients and their families: The role of volunteers in supporting psychosocial needs, Nigel Hartley6. Dementia, multimorbidity and frailty, Karen Harrison Dening7. Psychosocial care of families in palliative care, David W. Kissane8. The meaning of dignity in psychosocial care, Susan McClement9. Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of depression in advanced disease, Matthew Hotopf10. Psychotherapeutic interventions, Luigi Grassi, Maria Giulia Nanni, and Rosangela Caruso11. Spiritual care, Mark Cobb12. Diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD), Allison M. Marziliano, Wendy Lichtenthal, and Holly G. Prigerson

Editorial Reviews

"Case studies bring the subject to life as well as providing practical advice ... despite having been involved in palliative care for more than 20 years I found this book thought-provoking and I have learnt from reading it." — BMA reviewing panel, BMA Medical Book Awards 2019

"Psychosocial issues in palliative care: A community based approach for life limiting illness should be at arm's reach on the book shelf of every discerning palliative care professional." — Jason Mills, Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education Newsletter

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