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updated:4 May 2007
Books:
The following section is intended to list information about publications in palliative care that might be of interest to both patients and carer’s . It is not a comprehensive listing and the inclusion of a publication does not necessarily signify EAPC approval of its quality.
While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and validity of all entries, the EAPC does not accept responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissions
Rethinking palliative care
A social role valorisation approach
Paul Sinclair
This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life. Applying Social Role Valorisation, it argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and recommends an alternative framework to current approaches.
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Primer of Palliative Care, 4th Edition
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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) releases the fourth edition of its Primer of Palliative Care publication. Newly updated and expanded, this introductory guide is perfect for those who care for chronically and terminally ill patients or are interested in incorporating basic palliative care principles into their practice.
For more information www.aahpm.org
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Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa
A review of developments and challenges
Michael Wright and David Clark
| As the attention of the world focused increasingly on Africa, the International Observatory on End of Life Care was commissioned to conduct a timely review of hospice and palliative care development across the continent. The Observatory undertook this review using an approach specially designed for resource poor settings. Information was collected against an agreed template to allow comparisons between countries and regions. As a result, an insight is given into the challenges, opportunities and successes faced by hospice and palliative care workers, country by country, throughout the 26 countries in Africa where a palliative care initiative is underway. Strategies and models of care are explored, and the development of palliative care is viewed from various standpoints including ethnographic, historical, ethnic, demographic and epidemiological perspectives. This is the first comprehensive reference focusing exclusively on palliative care and hospice development in Africa, and makes fascinating reading. |
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Normal price £35
EAPC Bookclub price £28 |
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What is Professional Social Work?
Malcolm Payne
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This book is a now classic analysis of social work as a discourse between three aspects of practice: social order, therapeutic and transformational perspectives. It enables social workers to analyse and value the role of social work in present-day multi-professional social care.
This completely re-written second edition explores social work's struggle to meet its claim to achieve social progress through interpersonal practice. Important features of this new edition include:
• practical ways of analysing personal professional identity;
• understanding how social workers embody their profession in their practice with other professionals;
• detailed analysis of current and historical documents defining social work and social care analysis of values, agencies and global social work.
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This new edition will stimulate social workers, students and policy-makers in social care to think again about the valuable role social work plays in society.
Malcolm Payne is, Psycho-social and Spiritual Care, St Christopher's Hospice, London, Emeritus Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University and Honorary Professor, Kingston University/St George's Medical School.
For more information click here
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Communication in Cancer Care
F. Stiefel, CHU Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland (Ed.)
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This book covers all the relevant aspects of communication in cancer care, such as communication in cancer prevention and genetic counselling, communication at different stages of disease and communication with the family and children. In addition, more general topics are discussed, such as the benefits and evidence of communication skills training and the challenges of interdisciplinary and cross cultural communication. Besides useful information on direct clinical relevance, current theoretical frameworks and research on communication in oncology are presented. The chapters are written by leading figures in the field of psycho oncology and communication, who work and teach in different European countries.
Contents: Key elements of communication in cancer care. Motivating for cancer prevention. Communication in breast/ovarian cancer genetic counselling. Informing about diagnosis, relapse and progression of disease and communication with the terminally ill cancer patient. Maintaining hope: communication in palliative care. The patient and his family. Children with cancer. Interdisciplinary communication. Cultural aspects of communication in cancer care. Current concepts of communication skills training (CST) in oncology. CST in oncology: it works!
Comments on the scientific evidence. CST in oncology: open questions and future tasks.
For more information click here
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Caring for Terminally Ill Loved Ones
Lean on Me: Cancer Through a Carer's Eyes
A Book by Lorraine Kember – Inspirational True Story
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a book written by Lorraine Kember, is a powerfully moving and inspirational TRUE story about her husband's courageous battle with mesothelioma (asbestos related cancer) and her emotional journey as she cares for him. This touching book includes helpful information on topics such as: Cancer pain management, symptom control, Palliative Care, Quality of Life, Coping with grief. Diary excerpts and poems Lorraine penned along the way are interspersed throughout this book and further depict the depth of their love for each other, the sense of helplessness she experienced on his diagnosis and her growing strength as she comes to realize that there is much she can do to improve the “quality of his life”. This book has been highly recommended by the Cancer Council, as well as numerous other organizations and doctors for those who have – and particularly those who care for – loved ones with cancer of all kinds.
To read more about this book or order it online, please visit her website http://www.cancerthroughacarerseyes.jkwh.com
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Conquering your child’s chronic pain
A Book by Lonnie Zeltzer and Christina Blackett Schlank
This book has been written by one of the pioneers and leading thinkers in the area of chronic pain in children. It is easy to read, and shows in a precise and scientific way , the clinical and psychological aspects of children’s chronic pain. It is written for the parents of children with chronic pain but is a very usefull tool for any healthcare worker, developping the different approaches to treatment. I highly recommend it.
Dr Chantal Wood
Unité de Traitement de la Douleur
Hôpital Robert Debré
48 Bd Serurier
75019 Paris
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