Psycho-Oncology in Palliative and End-of-Life Care provides expert advice and clinical management guidelines on the impact of advanced cancer and its treatment on the life and wellbeing of a patient in palliative and end-of-life care. Employing a practical toolkit format, this volume addresses a variety of key challenges including: discussions of death and dying, poor prognoses, wishes and values of the dying person, advance care plans, anxiety, demoralization and problems with coping, depression and delirium, the needs of partners, children, families, and caregivers, and spiritual and bereavement care. Each chapter considers presenting symptoms, differential diagnoses and assessment methods to achieve the best diagnosis, so that a detailed formulation can be developed for each person that guides a comprehensive management plan. Each section concludes with professional and service issues ranging from ethical dilemmas, legal requirements, cultural needs, and training and service development issues, through to basic human rights.
Part of the
Psycho-Oncology Care: Companion Guides for Clinicians series, this concise pocket guide is a resource for oncology specialists, psycho-oncologists in training, consultant nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, and allied health professionals to use as a quick reference in everyday practice. Pitched at intermediate to advanced level skills, this companion guide can be used as a standalone, or alongside existing oncology and psycho-oncology training programs.
David W. Kissane, AC, MD, FRANZCP, FAChPM, FACLP, is an academic psychiatrist, psycho-oncology researcher, and palliative care physician. Dr. Kissane is Chair of Palliative Medicine Research, School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Australia and Cunningham Centre for Palliative Medicine Research, St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, NSW, Australia; Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Cabrini Health and Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and former Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States. Dr Kissane is a President Emeritus of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS). His scholarship contributed significantly to the use of support groups in cancer care, developed a model of family-centered care in both palliative care and bereavement, researched the state of demoralization as a form of existential distress, and built a comprehensive communication skills training program for oncology and palliative care.
Maggie Watson, PhD, DipClinPsych, AFBPsS, is a Clinical Psychologist in Psycho-Oncology and Visiting Professor, Research Department of Clinical, Health and Educational Psychology, University College London, UK; Honorary Research Associate in the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; and Adjunct Professor, Research and Innovation, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She is the former Head of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Marsden Hospital, UK, and the Psychology Research Group, Institute of Cancer Research, UK. Dr Watson is currently Editor-in-Chief of
Psycho-oncology: Journal of Psychological, Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Cancer, Co-Founder of the British Psychosocial Oncology Society, and a President Emeritus of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS). Her clinical research interests span psychological interventions including cognitive behavioral therapy, cancer and families, cancer genetics, and psychological aspects of prostate cancer.
William Breitbart, MD, FACLP, FAPOS, FAPA, is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Jimmie C. Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr Breitbart is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal
Palliative and Supportive Care and a President Emeritus of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS). His research has focused on psychosocial aspects of palliative medicine with an emphasis on the study of delirium, depression, pain, fatigue, and loss of meaning. He has engaged in pharmacological and psychotherapeutic intervention trials in these areas, most notably the development of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for advanced cancer patients.
大衛·W·基桑（David W. Kissane），AC，MD，FRANZCP，FAChPM，FACLP，是一位學術精神科醫生、心理腫瘤學研究者及緩和醫療醫師。基桑博士是澳大利亞聖母大學醫學院緩和醫學研究主席及澳大利亞悉尼聖文森醫院的坎寧漢緩和醫學研究中心的主席；同時也是澳大利亞墨爾本莫納什大學的精神病學名譽教授，以及美國紐約紀念斯隆-凱特琳癌症中心精神病學與行為科學系的前主任。基桑博士是國際心理腫瘤學學會（IPOS）的名譽會長。他的學術貢獻顯著推動了癌症護理中支持團體的使用，發展了以家庭為中心的緩和醫療及哀悼護理模式，研究了失落感作為一種存在性痛苦的狀態，並建立了一個針對腫瘤學和緩和醫療的全面溝通技巧訓練計劃。
瑪姬·沃森（Maggie Watson），PhD，DipClinPsych，AFBPsS，是心理腫瘤學的臨床心理學家及英國倫敦大學學院臨床、健康與教育心理學研究部的訪問教授；英國癌症研究所遺傳學與流行病學部的榮譽研究助理；英國德蒙福特大學健康與生命科學學院的榮譽教授；以及澳大利亞南昆士蘭大學研究與創新部的兼任教授。她曾擔任英國皇家馬爾斯登醫院的心理醫學部門負責人及英國癌症研究所的心理學研究小組負責人。沃森博士目前是《心理腫瘤學：癌症的心理、社會和行為維度期刊》的主編，英國心理社會腫瘤學學會的共同創始人，以及國際心理腫瘤學學會（IPOS）的名譽會長。她的臨床研究興趣涵蓋心理干預，包括認知行為療法、癌症與家庭、癌症遺傳學及前列腺癌的心理層面。
威廉·布萊特巴特（William Breitbart），MD，FACLP，FAPOS，FAPA，是紐約紀念斯隆-凱特琳癌症中心精神病學與行為科學系的主任及精神腫瘤學的吉米·C·霍蘭主席。布萊特巴特博士是國際期刊《緩和與支持護理》的主編，以及國際心理腫瘤學學會（IPOS）的名譽會長。他的研究專注於緩和醫學的心理社會層面，特別是對譫妄、抑鬱、疼痛、疲勞和失去意義的研究。他參與了這些領域的藥物和心理治療干預試驗，最著名的是為晚期癌症患者開發的以意義為中心的心理治療。
