Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine (2^nd Ed.)

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.

Part I-- Psychiatric and Psychosocial Palliative Care: Critical Milestones. 1. Hospice: A Psychiatric Perspective. 2. Integrating Psychiatry and Palliative Medicine: The Challenges and Opportunities. Part II-- Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness. 3. An Overview of Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life. 4. Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care. 5. Anxiety in Palliative Care. 6. Delirium in the Terminally Ill. 7. Suicide and Desire for Death in the Terminally Ill. 8. Palliative Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness. 9. Palliative Care in Patients with Substance Abuse and Patients with Personality. Part III-- Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care. 10. What Dying Patients Want. 11. Communication with Terminally Ill Patients and Their Families. 12. Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Palliative Care. 13. Cultural Issues in Palliative Care. 14. Understanding and Managing Bereavement in Palliative Care. 15. Family Issues and Palliative Care. 16. Burnout and Symptoms of Stress in Staff Working in Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Palliative Care. Part IV-- Ethical, Existential and Spiritual Issues in Palliative Care. 17. Ethical Issues in Palliative Care. 18. Love, Forgiveness and Opportunities for Personal Growth at the End of Life. 19. Dimensions of Suffering towards the End of Life. 20. Dignity, Meaning and Demoralization: Emerging Paradigms in End-of-Life Care. 21. Spiritual Care Issues in Palliative Care. Part V-- Understanding and Managing Symptoms. 22. Pain and Physical Symptom Management in the Terminally Ill: An Overview for Mental Health Professionals. 23. Psychiatric Aspects of Pain Management in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS. 24. Eating Issues in Palliative Cancer Patients. 25. Psychiatric Aspects of Fatigue in the Terminally Ill. Part VI-- Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Palliative Care. 26. Individual Psychotherapy for the Patient with Advanced Disease. 27. Narrative Medicine and Palliative Care. 28. Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Symptom Management in Palliative Care: Augmenting Somatic Interventions. 29. Group Psychotherapy and the Terminally Ill. 30. Family-Focused Grief Therapy. Part VII-- Life Cycle Considerations in Palliative Care. 31. Psychiatric Care of the Terminally Ill Child. 32. Special Care Considerations for the Dying Child. 33. Special Care Considerations for the Dying Elderly.

Harvey Max Chochinov is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit at CancerCare Manitoba. William Breitbart is Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Chief of Psychiatry Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University.