Moore Rhonda J. (ed.) Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care: Biopsychosocial and Environmental Approaches for the Life Course

2nd edition. — Springer, 2018. — 905 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-95368-7This comprehensive revision of the invaluable reference presents a rigorous survey of pain and palliative care phenomena across the lifespan and across disciplines. Grounded in the biopsychosocial viewpoint of its predecessor, it offers up-to-date understanding of assessments and interventions for pain, the communication of pain, common pain conditions and their mechanisms, and research and policy issues. In keeping with the current public attention to painkiller use and misuse, contributors discuss a full range of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to pain relief and management. And palliative care is given expanded coverage, with chapters on interventive, ethical, and spiritual concerns.This mix of evolving and emerging topics makes the Second Edition of the Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care a necessity for health practitioners specializing in pain management or palliative care, clinical and health psychologists, public health professionals, and clinicians and administrators in long-term care and hospice.Communication and Pain
Assessment
Common Pain Conditions
Mechanisms
Interventions
Psychosocial, Complementary and Alternative (CAM) and Spiritual Approaches for the Control of Symptoms
Perspectives on Pain from the Humanities and Social Sciences
Ethical Issues and Future Directions