Suffering

Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care

Robert Debellis, Eric Marcus, Austin H. Kutscher, Carole Smith Torres, Virginia Barrett (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

1986
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-86656-558-5 (ISBN)

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Ideal for professionals who work with the dying and their families, here is an insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies focusing on sufferingamong AIDS patients, cancer patients, children, the elderly, the mentally ill, and physicians. Learn to understand, cope with, and even overcomeand help others overcomeemotional and physical suffering.

Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses, teachers, funeral directors, and members of the clergy discuss the crucial physical, emotional, and psychological issues that patients and their families must confront when death is imminent. They address a variety of topics including terminal illness, chronic illness, loss, grief, and pain. Ideal for professionals who work with dying people and their families, Suffering highlights topics that are particularly common when working with AIDS patients, cancer patients, children, the elderly, and the mentally ill.

Robert DeBellis, Eric Marcus, Austin H. Kutscher, Carole Smith Torres, Virginia Barrett, Mary-Ellen Siegel

Contents
Patients’ Wants and Needs: The Physicians’ Responses

Suffering and Autonomy
The Dying Patient: Physician’s Suffering
Suffering, Thanatology, and Whole-Person Medicine
The Pain of the Physician
Repetitive Existential Plight: The Emotional Impact of Recurrent Serious Illness
Suffering in Chronic Mental Illness
Reflections on Suffering Prompted by ALS
Suffering and End Stage Renal Disease
Cancer Patients and Radiotherapy: Close Encounters of a Third Kind
AIDS Patient Suffering
Suffering
Home Care for the Dying Child With Cancer: Feasibility and Desirability
Euthanasia and Moral Stress
On the Value of Suffering in the Shadow of Death
Suffering and Pain
Death and Growth: The Problem of Pain
The Child and Suffering: The Role of the School
Spiritual Support for the Suffering: Clergy Attitudes Toward Bereavement
A Pastoral View of Widowhood
Push Back the Curtain of Darkness
Aspects of Anxiety: Financial Concerns When Death Is Imminent
Suffering and the Quest for Meaning
“And Day Brought Back My Night”

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.10.1986
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-86656-558-2 / 0866565582
ISBN-13	978-0-86656-558-5 / 9780866565585
Zustand	Neuware