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The Delineation and Explication of Palliative Options of Last Resort
Palliative options of last resort have become a major focus of ethical debates over improving care of the dying, particularly in the United States....
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Quality Indicators for Pain in Palliative Care
Measuring the quality of pain management is essential for demonstrating the value of providers’ efforts to control this burdensome symptom. Measuring...
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Experience of End-of-Life Issues by People with Intellectual Disability
This chapter examines contemporary research about end of life with a particular emphasis on people with intellectual disabilities and their...
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Inclusion of the severe and enduring anorexia nervosa phenotype in genetics research: a sco** review
BackgroundAnorexia nervosa has one of the highest mortality rates of all mental illnesses. For those who survive, less than 70% fully recover, with...
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Truth Telling and Palliative Care
Palliative medicine clinicians provide expert and compassionate care for patients living with a life-limiting illness and their caregivers. Caring...
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Communicable Diseases
Communicable diseases are infections that are transmitted between individuals. Using COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS as models, this chapter explores themes...
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Liège School of Hypnosis
This chapter retraces the trajectory of hypnosis at the University of Liège, highlighting the importance of research in the development of a...
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Medical student wellbeing during COVID-19: a qualitative study of challenges, co** strategies, and sources of support
BackgroundMedical students face challenges to their mental wellbeing and have a high prevalence of mental health problems. During training, they are...
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Pediatric Cancer
Although diagnosed acutely, pediatric cancer and its many lasting sequelae are now considered a chronic condition thanks to an 80% overall survival...
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Mortality, Mortuaries, and Movement - Implications of Dance/Movement Therapy and Death: A Literature Review
Dance/movement therapy (DMT) is a somatic-based psychotherapy approach that can supplement existing therapy techniques or stand on its own as...
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End-of-Life Doulas and People Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Globally, there is a growing movement of extending the role of doulas from assisting with bringing in life to providing non-medical physical,...
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Why Affectivity in Learning? Toward an Affectively Guided Learning
Affectivity and learning have been an important focus of interest for academics and researchers. However, academic knowledge of educational processes...
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Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases can vary significantly in onset, course, and degree of incapacitation for each individual. However, there are similarities woven...
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Advance Care Planning with and for People Who Have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Advance care planning (ACP) involves making decisions about care preferences when a person becomes unable to communicate for themselves. In ideal...
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‘Terminal anorexia’: a lived experience perspective on the proposed criteria
In an article (Asaria in J Eat Disord 11:107, 2023) recently published by the Journal of Eating Disorders, I expressed my lived experience views on...
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Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics
BackgroundMost individuals with eating disorders will either recover, settle into an unrecovered but self-defined acceptable quality of life, or...
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Wales
Wales is a country with a long and proud history and a distinctive language and culture. While the burial and bereavement practices of Wales are...
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Mindful Self-Care Scale (MSCS)
Mindful self-care practices are pathways to embodied wellbeing, and the development of the Mindful Self-Care Scale (MSCS) is a critical step toward...