1st Edition

Family-Based Palliative Care

By Jane Marie Kirschling Copyright 1990
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

Learn to interact with families in ways that promote family functioning when a family member is dying. Family-Based Palliative Care is an insightful book that aims to increase professionals’understanding of the family as client. Authoritative contributors who are experienced in working with the terminally ill present the most current theory, practice, and research related to family-based... Read more
Contents Preface
  • A Conceptual Framework for Caring for Families of Hospice Patients
  • Sources of Stress for Hospice Caregiving Families
  • The Work of Patients and Spouses in Managing Advanced Cancer at Home
  • Social Support: The Experience of Hospice Family Caregivers
  • A Marital Crisis: For Better or Worse
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Jane Marie Kirschling