Published September, 2017
By Susan Carr
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book explains the theory and practice of portrait therapy, an original art therapy intervention. It reveals how the intervention can be used to address a 'disrupted' self-identity, which is common in people with life-threatening or chronic illness and is characterised by statements like 'I'm not the person I used to be'.

---

Published September, 2017
By Veronica M. F. Adamson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of Adamson's partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery. It looks at the notion of life as binary synthesis as a way of coming to understand death.

---

Published September, 2017
By Veronica M. F. Adamson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of Adamson's partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery. It looks at the notion of life as binary synthesis as a way of coming to understand death.

---

Published September, 2017
By Professor Joav Merrick, Louisa Cheuk-Yu Lui, Kam-Hung Wong and Rebecca Yeung
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
Rating:
Availability: Available

---

Published August, 2017
By Carol Cox, Maya Zumstein-Shaha and Carol L. Cox
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book provides healthcare professionals with a practice theory for the care and management of patients who have been diagnosed with cancer. Developing an original theory of 'The Omnipresence of Cancer', it explores patients' feelings and experiences, their coping strategies and how healthcare professionals can assist.

---

Published August, 2017
By John Wattis, Stephen Curran and Melanie Rogers
Publisher: Productivity Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

---

Published July, 2017
By Janet Dunphy and Mary Kiely
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book examines the fine art of communication - the pivotal aspect of being a palliative care expert that is so difficult to quantify and teach. It presents the unemotional, clear and accurate advice necessary for communicating with patients in a palliative care setting.

---

Published July, 2017
By Jeffrey P. Bishop, Lisa Sowle Cahill, M. Therese Lysaught, Lydia Dugdale, Lydia S. Dugdale, Stephen R. Latham, Farr A. Curlin, Michelle Harrington, Daniel Sulmasy and Autumn Alcott Ridenour
Publisher: MIT Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

---

Published July, 2017
By Miriam Johnson, Richard Lehman and Karen J. Hogg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book is a guide to help clinicians caring for people with advanced heart failure develop a team approach for a group of people who, despite the increased awareness, remains disadvantaged in accessing support to help them live with, and support them as they die from, this serious illness.

---

Published July, 2017
By Stephen R. Connor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Rating:
Availability: Available

The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world.

---