Psychosocial issues in palliative care 2/e (2^nd Ed.)

When dealing with a severe life limiting illness, both carers and professionals often report that dealing with the psychosocial symptoms is harder than actual physical symptoms. This book offers practical advice on how to elicit and manage the concerns and distress of the patient.

1. Setting the context - What do we mean by psychosocial care in palliative care?. 2. Communication issues. 3. Social impact of advanced metastatic cancer. 4. Family-centred care: psychosocial care for the marginalized. 5. Current provision of psychosocial care within palliative care. 6. Anxiety and adjustment disorders. 7. Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of depression in palliative care. 8. Psychotherapeutic interventions in palliative care. 9. Complementary therapies. 10. Spiritual care. 11. Bereavement care and hope. 12. Staff support.

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.