Main description:

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders. Working beyond narrow, stereotypical definitions of palliative care as restricted to terminal cancer patients, this balanced and thought-provoking volume examines the many interrelated issues that face the individual, families, and caregivers, setting the groundwork for improved, ethical relationships and interventions. Chapters by experts and experienced practitioners detail the challenges, concerns, and best practices for ethical care and responses in a variety of individual and treatment contexts. This is an essential and thoughtful new resource for all those involved in the fast-developing field of palliative mental health.

Contents:

About the Editors. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Terminology. 1. Why a Palliative Care Approach Within Mental Health?, Jo Cooper and David B. Cooper 2. What is Ethics?, Cynthia M. A. Geppert 3. The Ethics of Care, Nel Noddings 4. Research and Ethics, Tony Warne and Sue McAndrew 5. Understanding Severe Persistent Mental Health Problems and Disorders, Michael Hazelton 6. Culture and Cultural Awareness, Roxanne Amerson 7. Sex, Gender, and Sexuality, Lyn Merryfeather 8. Human Rights, Scott Macpherson and Dan Warrender 9. Symptom Management Framework, John Richard Ashcroft and Laura Henry 10. Developing the Art of Self-Knowledge and Applying Deductive Reasoning in Clinical Practice, Subia Parveen Rasheed and Ahtisham Younas 11. Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Nicole Newman and Lisa M. Brown 12. Specific Needs of the Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult, Geraldine S. Pearson 13. Specific Needs of the Female Adult, Sian Bensa 14. Specific Needs of the Male Adult, W. J. Wayne Skinner, Marilyn White-Campbell, and Carl A. Kent 15. Specific Needs of the Older Adult, Patrick Ryan and Julie Lynch 16. Listening to the Family's Pain, Lottie Morris 17. Substance Use, Jacqueline Talmet and Charlotte Francis Champion de Crespigny 18. Futility in Anorexia Nervosa, Cynthia M. A. Geppert 19. Suicide Awareness and Prevention, Annessa Rebair 20. Supportive Decision Making, Geralyn Hynes and Agnes Higgins 21. End-of-Life Care: Alcohol and Other Drugs, Sarah Galvani and Gemma Anne Yarwood 22. Last Few Days of Life and Bereavement, Sue Read, Sotirios Santatzoglou, and Anthony Wrigley 23. Making Sense: Death, Dying, and Mental Health, Dan Warrender and Scott Macpherson 24. Developing Times, David B. Cooper and Jo Cooper