Overview
Caring for patients with a terminal illness and their families requires the skills of many professionals working together as a team. It is often the psychosocial issues surrounding patients and families that cause professionals even greater difficulty than the physical symptoms. The issues of psychosocial assessment, treatment, care, and support of palliative care patients differs from the care of patients with early, treatable cancer - time is short and the emphasis different both from a patient and carer perspective. This new edition of a successful text examines current practice and provision of psychosocial support as applied to palliative care patients. It is a highly practical text, comprehensively reviewing the current literature and evidence in order to demonstrate good, and better, practice in psychosocial care.
Full Product Details
Author: Mari Lloyd-Williams (Professor/Director, Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group, University of Liverpool, UK)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9780199216420
ISBN 10: 0199216428
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 08 May 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
<br> The authors brought together the social and psychological concerns of palliative care in the first edition of this book, and this new edition brings these important themes up to date. It continues the examination of current practice, and offers a comprehensive review of the literature, in order to demonstrate good practice in psychosocial care. --Anticancer Research<br>
The authors brought together the social and psychological concerns of palliative care in the first edition of this book, and this new edition brings these important themes up to date. It continues the examination of current practice, and offers a comprehensive review of the literature, in order to demonstrate good practice in psychosocial care. --Anticancer Research
The authors brought together the social and psychological concerns of palliative care in the first edition of this book, and this new edition brings these important themes up to date. It continues the examination of current practice, and offers a comprehensive review of the literature, in order to demonstrate good practice in psychosocial care. --Anticancer Research<br>
Author Information
Professor Lloyd-Williams was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in 2002, and in 2003 was promoted to a personal chair in recognition of her research experience. She has published over 100 papers, and is lead and chair of the Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group at Liverpool, which has secured in excess of £3.3 million of research grant income over the past 3 years. Current research focuses on screening for depression, interventions for depression, association between physical symptoms and concomitant depression, studies exploring support needs for children and families where a parent has advanced cancer, longitudinal studies of early loss of a parent, and also symptom burden in non malignant disease. She is also Director of community medical education for the medical school, chair of the 2006 Palliative Care Congress, and is the UK representative on the EAPC Research Steering Committee.
