Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine 2/e 2012

Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine 2/e 2012

Harvey Max Chochinov
William Breitbart

• Written by internationally known psychiatry and palliative care experts
• Serves as an essential resource for all providers of palliative care, including the members of multidisciplinary medical teams
• Addresses new therapeutic modalities, approaches, and research topics

Psychiatric, or psychosocial, palliative care has transformed palliative medicine. Palliation that neglects psychosocial dimensions of patient and family experience fails to meet contemporary standards of comprehensive palliative care. While a focus on somatic issues has sometimes overshadowed attention to psychological, existential, and spiritual end-of-life challenges, the past decade has seen an all encompassing, multi-disciplinary approach to care for the dying take hold.

Written by internationally known psychiatry and palliative care experts, the Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine is an essential reference for all providers of palliative care, including psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, oncologists, hospice workers, and social workers.

Readership: Providers of palliative care, including psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, oncologists, hospice workers, and social workers