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Cairns, a counseling staff member with an organization dedicated to palliative care training and advocacy, describes the transitions that dying people, their families, and their caregivers move through during the process from diagnosis to bereavement, and outlines interventions that professionals can use to ease confusion and stress experienced by clients and families. Activities, exercises, personal essays, poetry, and illustrations put a human face on the hospice experience.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Explains the key transitions chronically ill and dying people and their families face during the process from diagnosis to death to bereavement. Clear explanations along with case studies and sample dialogues reveal the issues and challenges presented at each phase of the journey. For physicians and nurses. Softcover.

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"Transitions in Dying & Bereavement: A Psychosocial Guide for Hospice and Palliative Care compassionately explains the key transitions that chronically ill and dying people, their families, and caregivers move through during the process from diagnosis to death to bereavement. Readers learn the most effective interventions to ease the confusion and stress experienced by clients during these transitions. Clear explanations along with case studies and sample dialogues reveal the issues and challenges presented at each phase of the journey. Readers will also find activities, exercises, personal essays, poetry, and illustrations that put a human face on the hospice experience; ways to improve communication about the experience of dying and bereavement; ways to help in planning for death; ways to help alleviate anxiety, fear, fatigue/burnout, and feelings of denial and powerlessness; perspectives on body image, intimacy, and sexuality in people who are dying; sensitive explanations on navigating the three phases of grief; multicultural and interdenominational perspectives on death and dying; myriad ways to support staff in this highly challenging work." Nurses, physicians, counselors, social workers, allied health professionals, and volunteers can discover how dying, death, and bereavement can become a rich, complex journey of body, mind, and spirit for all involved.

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