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Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
Joan Berzoff (Ed.)
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Description for Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
Hardback. A resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families. It addresses practice with people who have specific illnesses such as AIDS, bone marrow disease, and cancer and more. It also includes content on trauma and developmental issues for children, adults, and the aging who are dying. Editor(s): Berzoff, Joan; Silverman, Phyllis Rolfe. Series: End of Life Care: A Series. Num Pages: 928 pages, 6 tables, 4 figures illus. BIC Classification: MMC; MQCL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1543.
The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families, Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare professionals, who, when faced with overwhelming personal losses altered their clinical practices and philosophies. The book provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, families, groups, and communities and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups. Living with Dying addresses practice with people who have specific illnesses such as AIDS, bone marrow disease, and cancer and pays special attention ... Read more
The first resource on end-of-life care for healthcare practitioners who work with the terminally ill and their families, Living with Dying begins with the narratives of five healthcare professionals, who, when faced with overwhelming personal losses altered their clinical practices and philosophies. The book provides ways to ensure a respectful death for individuals, families, groups, and communities and is organized around theoretical issues in loss, grief, and bereavement and around clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups. Living with Dying addresses practice with people who have specific illnesses such as AIDS, bone marrow disease, and cancer and pays special attention ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
928
Condition
New
Series
End of Life Care: A Series
Number of Pages
928
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231127943
SKU
V9780231127943
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About Joan Berzoff (Ed.)
Joan Berzoff is professor and codirector of the doctoral program at Smith College School for Social Work and director of the End of Life Certificate Program at Smith. She is the coauthor of Inside Out and Outside In: Psychodynamic Clinical Theory and Practice in Contemporary Multicultural Contexts and Disassociative Identity Orders: The Controversy in Diagnosis and Treatment. She is the ... Read more
Reviews for Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
Berzoff's and Silverman's text is a compendium of educational material uniquely edited to facilitate social workers' understanding of how to think about, talk with and practice caring for people with life-limiting illness, their caregivers and themselves. It should be required reading for all healthcare professionals who provide end-of-life care. From its use of personal narratives to its emphasis on the ... Read more