Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine [Paperback]

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, theHandbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicineis an essential reference for all providers of palliative care, including psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, oncologists, hospice workers, and social workers.

Part I
Psychiatric and Psychosocial Palliative Care: Critical Milestones

1 Hospice and Palliative Care: A Psychiatric Perspective
John L. Shuster, Jr., M.D.
Irene J. Higginson, BMedSci, BMBS, FFPHM, Ph.D., FRCP

2 Integrating Psychiatry and Palliative Medicine: The Challenges and Opportunities
J. Andrew Billings, M.D.
Susan D. Block, M.D.

Part II
Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness

3 An Overview of Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life
Edwin H. Cassem, S.J., M.D.

4 Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care
Keith G. Wilson, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Mark Lander, M.D., FRCPC
Harvey Max Chochinov, O.M, M.D., Ph.D., FRSC

5 Anxiety in Palliative Care
Andrew J. Roth, M.D.
Mary Jane Massie, M.D.

6 Delirium in the Terminally Ill
William Breitbart, M.D.
Peter G. Lawlor, MB MMedSc, CCFP
Miriam Friedlander, M.D.

7 Suicide and Desire for Hastened Death in the Terminally Ill
Megan Olden, M.A.
Hayley Pessin, Ph.D.
Wendy G. Lichtenthal, Ph.D.
William Breitbart, M.D.

8 Palliative Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness
Mary Ellen Foti,lsª