End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement What Clinicians Need to Know

by Qualls, Sara Honn; Kasl-Godley, Julia E.

• ISBN13: 9780470406939
• ISBN10: 0470406933
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-23
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Mental health care for older adults inevitably involves work with issues related to dying. This book provides a practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care including grief and bereavement. Beginning with the physiology of the dying process and its effects on patients and their loved ones, the book addresses the range of psychological interventions that can ease the process for all. Topics include the integration of psychological services into palliative and hospice care, differential diagnosis of depression-grief-bereavement; complicated bereavement, interventions for conflicted families, and the role of the context of death on psychological services. As is characteristic of other books in this series, this book integrates research with practical clinical guidance.

Author Biography

Sara H. Qualls, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Director of Clinical Training in Geropsychology, and Director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She has twenty years of academic, clinical, and continuing education training experience and is the co-chair of the Adult Development and Aging Division of the American Psychological Association (APA). Julia E. Kasl-Godley, PhD, is Coordinator of Psychology Training at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship Program in California. She has published on interventions for anticipatory grief and end-of-life care and is the recipient of the APA's 2003 Theodore Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Introduction to End-of-Life Care for Mental Health Professionals	p. 1
Trajectories of Chronic Illnesses	p. 26
The Cultural Context of Spirituality and Meaning	p. 43
Working With Family Caregivers of Persons With Terminal Illness	p. 64
Serious Mental Illness	p. 85
Advance Care Planning	p. 116
Pharmacologic Management of Pain	p. 128
Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain and Symptom Management	p. 148
Grief and Bereavement Care	p. 168
Complicated Grief	p. 181
Health-Care Teams	p. 201
End-of-Life Care in Long-Term Care Settings	p. 229
Advocating for Policy Change: The Role of Mental Health Providers	p. 252
Physician-Assisted Suicide in the United States: Issues, Challenges, Roles, and Implications for Clinicians	p. 263
Creating Ethics Conversations in Community	p. 285
Professional Self-Care	p. 294
Embracing the Existential Invitation to Examine Care at the End of Life	p. 310
Author Index	p. 325
Subject Index	p. 335
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