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An overview of contemporary social work practice in palliative care.

2010

Tags: 2010, 80 And Over, Access To Information, Adolescence, Aged, Backlog, Bosma H, Cadell S, Canada, Collaboration, Commitment, Communities, Decision Making, Education, Evaluation, Female, Goals and Objectives, Health Care Delivery, Hospices, Johnston M, Journal Article, Knowledge, Male, Multidisciplinary Care Team, Palliative Care, Patient Advocacy, Patient Care Plans, PPC Book Chapter 2011 (Kim Widger), Progress In Palliative Care, psychosocial, Reflection, Research, Role, Social Values, Social Work, Support, Wainright W

The assessment of values in laryngeal cancer: reliability of measurement methods

Although quantitative estimates of patients' attitudes toward the relative importance of different aspects of health are of great potential usefulness in medical decision making, there is little information about the stability of such values over…

Self-concepts, domain values, and self-esteem: relations and changes at early adolescence

We assessed how children's self-concepts of ability for mathematics, English, social, and physical skills activities, ratings of the importance of these activities, and general self-esteem change across the transition to junior high school. Three…

Reconceptualization of the uncertainty in illness theory

The theory of uncertainty in illness has its strongest support among subjects who are experiencing the acute phase of illness or are in a downward illness trajectory (mishel, 1988a). The theory has not addressed the experience of living with…

Tags: 1990, Adaptation, Anomie, Backlog, Concept Formation, Cues, Disease/psychology, Humans, Image--the Journal Of Nursing Scholarship, Journal Article, Mishel MH, Models, Psychological, Psychological Theory, Social Values

Must patients always be given food and water?

KIE: The widespread consensus that withholding certain life-sustaining treatments, especially those entailing substantial suffering, is sometimes in a patient's best interest conflicts with our basic instincts when the treatments are food and water.…

Ethical issues in the pediatric intensive care unit

Advanced technology and better scientific understanding of mechanisms of disease now permit intensive care personnel to extend life beyond what some patients and families consider reasonable, leading, in part, to the "patients' rights" movement and…

The deceased child in the psychic and social worlds of bereaved parents during the resolution of grief

A core dynamic by which grief is resolved by parents in Bereaved Parents, a self-help group, is a series of transformations of the inner representation of the dead child in the parent's inner world and in the parent's social world. As the reality of…

Tags: 1997, Backlog, Bereavement, Death studies, Humans, Journal Article, Klass D, Parent-child Relations, Parents/psychology, Self-Help Groups, Social Values, SSHRC CURA, United States

The sorcerer's broom: medicine's rampant technology

Discusses the impact of technology on the practice of medicine. Effect of technology to medical inflation; Influence of technology on the attempt to reform the health care system and on the redirection of the goals of health care system; Problems…

Recognizing suffering

Implies that the profession of medicine must pursue the relief of suffering. Definition of suffering; Wholeness, person, and self-identity; Purpose; Knowing the suffering of others; Knowledge of others as individuals; Aesthetics.

Tags: 1991, Backlog, Cassell EJ, Disease/psychology, Esthetics, Humans, Journal Article, Patients/psychology, Personhood, Professional Patient Relationship, Psychological, Social Values, Stress, The Hastings Center Report, Virtues

Clinical incoherence about persons: the problem of the persistent vegetative state

1996

Tags: 1996, Annals Of Internal Medicine, Attitude Of Health Personnel, Attitude To Death, Backlog, Cassell EJ, Death and Euthanasia, Decision Making, Humans, Journal Article, Persistent Vegetative State, Physicians/psychology, Professional Patient Relationship, Social Values, Tissue and Organ Procurement, Uncertainty

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