Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness -- 1 Hospice: A Psychiatric Perspective -- 2 Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life -- 3 Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care -- 4 Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill -- 5 Anxiety in Palliative Care -- 6 Delirium in the Terminally Ill -- 7 Palliative Care in the Chronically Mentally Ill -- Part II: Symptom Management -- 8 Physical Symptom Management in the Terminally Ill: An Overview for Mental Health Professionals -- 9 Psychiatric Aspects of Pain Management in Patients with Advanced Cancer and AIDS -- 10 Psychiatric Management of Eating Disorders in Palliative-Care Management of Cancer Patients -- 11 Psychiatric Aspects of Fatigue in the Terminally Ill -- Part III: Psychotherapeutic Intervention and Palliative Care -- 12 Individual Psychotherapy for the Patient with Advanced Disease -- 13 Existential Psychotherapy in Palliative Care -- 14 The Supportive Relationship, the Psychodynamic Life Narrative, and the Dying Patient -- 15 A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Symptom Management in Palliative Care: Augmenting Somatic Interventions -- 16 Group Psychotherapy and the Terminally Ill -- Part IV: Pediatric Palliative Care -- 17 Psychiatric Care of the Terminally Ill Child -- 18 Psychotherapy with the Dying Child -- Part V: Family and Staff Issues -- 19 Family Issues and Palliative Care -- 20 Communication with Terminally Ill Patients and Their Relatives -- 21 Burnout and Symptoms of Stress in Staff Working in Palliative Care -- 22 Understanding and Managing Bereavement in Palliative Care -- Part VI: Ethical and Spiritual Issues -- 23 Ethical Issues in Palliative Care -- 24 Addressing the Needs of the Patient Who Requests Physician-Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia -- 25 Spiritual Care of the Dying Patient.

26 The Treatment of Suffering in Patients with Advanced Cancer -- Part VII: Research Issues -- 27 Quality Assurance and Audit in Palliative Care -- 28 New Directives for Psychosocial Research in Palliative Medicine -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.