1st Edition
Psychosocial Interventions in End-of-Life Care The Hope for a “Good Death”
Introduction Part I: Aspects of Death and Dying 1. Western Attitudes to Death 2. Twenty-First Century Death: Social and Political Priorities and the Good Death 3. End-of-Life Care & the Good Death 4. The Philosophy of Hospice Care, the Practice of Palliative Medicine, & the Good Death Part II: Psychosocial Interventions to Promote a Good Death 5. The Psychological Viewpoint 6. Spirituality, Religion and the Good Death 7. Psychotherapeutic Interventions in End-of-Life Care Part III: Characterizing the Concept of the Good Death 8. What Promise Exists for a Good Death?
Biography
Peggy Sturman Gordon received her second Master’s degree in Thanatology from Brooklyn College. In addition, she is a trained art and horticultural therapist and has worked with the geriatric population for more than a decade.
"This is a well–written synopsis of the history and our current state of thinking about what constitutes a Good Death. The first thing that drew me in was her frequent quotation or reference to people I have come to respect—Ira Byock, Christina Puchalski, Balfour Mount, Cicely Saunders, Allan Kellehear, Atul Gawande, Harvey Chochinov, Bill Breitbart—to mention a few. The second was that the text was brief, to the point, and well referenced...I would recommend this book to anyone who works in Palliative Care as a good summary of where we are at in looking after the patient’s interests. Which is what we are meant to be doing."
Roger Woodruff, Hospice Care Newsletter
