Clinical Manual of Palliative Care Psychiatry

The content of the Clinical Manual is extraordinarily expert, well structured, and well presented. The clearly written text, figures, and tables all provide critically important information to the psychiatric and palliative care clinician enabling her/him to rapidly enhance her/his knowledge, clinical judgment, and clinical care delivery. -Deane L. Wolcott, M.D., DLFAPA, FAPM, FAPOS, Director, Oncology Supportive Care Services, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars- Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA The Clinical Manual of Palliative Care Psychiatry expertly distills the essential knowledge and wisdom of this growing field in psychiatry. It identifies some of the most critical implicit aspects of working with seriously ill patients and makes them explicit and accessible. This book will be very useful to both psychiatry and palliative care clinicians. -William F. Pirl, M.D., MPH, FAPM, FAPOS, Director, Center for Psychiatric Oncology and Behavioral Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Past-President, American Psychosocial Oncology Society Clinical Manual of Palliative Care Psychiatry is an important and welcome addition to the growing literature on an aspect of palliative care medicine that is at once a subspecialty and at the same time so universally applicable as to constitute a core competency. This is a very approachable clinical text. Readers will find well-written chapters concluding with key points, practical tables, and figures very useful to those new to the field. -Alan D. Valentine, M.D., Chair, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center