Covers a series of topics related to dying, loss and bereavement, which sets out particularly practical aspects of the provision of services and care for patients and their families. It is aimed at a wide range of health care and community workers including nurses on terminally ill wards, community workers and family caring for such patients, social workers and psychologists engaged in counselling, and medical students coming into contact with terminally ill patients, death and dying.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-632-02282-3 (9780632022823)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Hospice; Legal aspects of dying; Cultural and religious aspects of dying; Staff training - a necessity not a luxury; Setting up and running a bereavement counselling service; Care for the carers; Death of a baby; Death of a child - the worst kept secret around; Survivors of man-made mass death and some treatment implications; Loss of a family member - lessons for coping with a disaster; Loss and the human immunodeficiency virus; AIDS; Cancer; Suicide.