End-of-life care and addiction
Subtitle: a family systems approach
By: Suzanne Bushfield, Brad DeFord.
Contributors: DeFord, Brad.
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780826121417
Subjects: Substance abuse -- Social aspects; Addiction -- Social aspects; Terminal care; Families
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Death and addiction : a family affair; title: Addiction treatment : what every end of life care professional should know; title: The physiological, psychological, and spiritual effects of addiction; title: A systems approach to dying : what every hospice team needs to know about family systems theory; title: Applying family systems to the end of life care of addicts and their families; title: The challenges of caring for the dying : the teamwork of families and hospice; title: Applying family systems to the bereavement care of families with histories of addiction; title: The hospice team as a family system : systems aspects to end of life care; title: Hospice teams and addiction emotional process; title: The emotional processes of addiction and dying.