Psychosocial Palliative Care

ISBN: 9780199917402 出版年：2014 页码：193 Oxford University Press

Psychosocial Palliative Care reviews the most effective practices for the psychiatric care of patients with advanced illnesses. This handbook contains basic concepts and definitions of palliative care and the experience of dying, guidelines for the assessment and management of major psychiatric complications of life-threatening illness, including psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and covers issues such as bereavement, spirituality, cultural sensitivity, communication and psychiatric contributions to common physical symptom control.