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Find the words--and the deeds--to meet the psychosocial needs of chronically ill and dying people, their families, and caregivers in this first-ever strengths-based, step-by-step guide through the labyrinthine process from diagnosis to death to bereavement. Transitions in Dying and Bereavement puts a human face on a difficult yet unavoidable topic. This book comprehensively and compassionately covers the key transitions that dying people and their families face and the most effective interventions to facilitate the transitions. Employing their many years of experience in hospice and palliative care, this team of counselors and other health care professionals provides: clear explanations of current theory and research related to hospice, palliative, and bereavement care ways to help alleviate anxiety, fear, fatigue, and feelings of denial and powerlessness ways to improve communication about the experience of dying help in planning for death the Palliative Performance Scale, a functional assessment tool sensitive explanations on navigating the three phases of grief perspectives on difficult issues such as body image, sexuality, and intimacy multicultural and interdenominational perspectives on death and dying ways to support staff and much more Activities, exercises, case studies, personal essays, poetry, and illustrations are liberally and strategically located throughout the text, forming the perfect in-service, classroom, or professional development tool for nurses, physicians, counselors, social workers, allied health professionals, volunteers, and others who work with people traversing the end-of-life experience.

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• About the Authors(p. vii)
• Contributors(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Introduction: Signposts: Principles, Values, and Assumptions(p. 1)
• Perspective: Support for the Hospice Palliative Care Team(p. 13)
• 1 Establishing the Framework: Integration of Psychosocial and Palliative Care(p. 23)
• Perspective: The Role of Counselors in Hospice and Palliative Care(p. 39)
• 2 Beginning the Journey: Early Diagnosis and Treatment(p. 47)
• Perspective: Psychosocial Assessment(p. 85)
• 3 The Path Not Chosen: Recurrence and Chronic Illness(p. 93)
• Perspective: Family Types and Stages(p. 125)
• 4 Entering the Unknown: The Shift Toward Hospice and Palliative Care(p. 135)
• Perspective: Dying Children and Adolescents(p. 165)
• 5 The Long and Winding Road: Illness Predominates(p. 171)
• Perspective: Alternative Therapies(p. 207)
• 6 Watching and Waiting: As Death Approaches(p. 215)
• Perspective: Body Image, Sex, and Intimacy(p. 247)
• 7 The Parting of the Ways: Time of Death(p. 255)
• Perspective: Working with Emotions(p. 279)
• 8 Walking the Edges: When a Death Occurs(p. 287)
• Perspective: Cultural Competency(p. 321)
• 9 Entering the Depths: Adjusting to Loss(p. 329)
• Perspective: Difficult Grief and Multiple Losses(p. 357)
• 10 Reconnecting with the World: Mending the Heart(p. 365)
• Afterword: The Last Word(p. 389)
• Index(p. 391)

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Victoria Hospice Society, 1952 Bay Street, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA, V8R 1J8. Providing quality end-of-life care, and teaching others how to provide that care, has been a Victoria Hospice Society (VHS) tradition since the organization was founded in 1980 in Victoria, British Columbia. As well as caring for those facing advanced illness, death, and bereavement, Victoria Hospice staff are also involved in provincial and national initiatives dedicated to palliative care training, research, and advocacy. In 1999, the Victoria Hospice Learning Centre for Palliative Care was formally established to work in partnership with other health care and academic organizations to advance excellence in palliative care. The Victoria Hospice program of care includes a 17-bed in-patient unit, a Palliative Response Team that provides 24-hour crisis to support to patients and families at home, a comprehensive bereavement program, and clinical consultation services to patients in other health care facilities. Victoria Hospice palliative care courses and publications, such as the textbook Medical Care of the Dying (1998), are valuable resources to professional care providers throughout North America. For more information, visit the Victoria Hospice website at www.victoriahospice.org.|Moira Cairns, B.A., R.S.W., has worked in the counseling field since 1977. She served as a hospital social worker, hospice counselor, branch administrator, and development officer for palliative care in Wales, and is now the bereavement coordinator for VHS. She has a bacheloraEUR (TM)s degree in psychology and is a certified social worker. Ms. Cairns is an experienced author, conference presenter, and workshop trainer on palliative care and bereavement.|Marney Thompson, M.A., worked at the VHS as a volunteer, then as a group facilitator, and has worked as a counselor since 1990. She has a bacheloraEUR (TM)s degree in child and youth care and a masteraEUR (TM)s degree in human and social development. An experienced conference presenter on psychosocial palliative topics, she is also the author of various publications on bereavement published by the VHS.|Wendy Wainwright, M.Ed., has worked with the VHS since 1983 as a community counselor, as a bereavement coordinator, and now as the manager of counseling services. She has a bacheloraEUR (TM)s degree in sociology and a masteraEUR (TM)s of education in counseling psychology. She has developed staff and volunteer training programs for VHS and educational materials for patients, families, and professionals. Ms. Wainwright is president of the British Columbia Hospice Palliative Care Association and is the author of numerous professional journal articles on counseling activities, child and parent support groups, and young people and death.