Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780866565585)

Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses, teachers, funeral directors, and members of the clergy discuss the crucial physical, emotional, and psychological issues that patients and their families must confront when death is imminent. They address a variety of topics including terminal illness, chronic illness, loss, grief, and pain. Ideal for professionals who work with dying people and their families, Suffering highlights topics that are particularly common when working with AIDS patients, cancer patients, children, the elderly, and the mentally ill.

Author: Robert Debellis
ISBN-10: 0866565582
ISBN-13: 9780866565585
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/14/1986
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover