Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease : : The Life-Threatened Patient, the Family, and the Staff / / ed. by James Reiffel, Robert Debellis, Bernard Schoenberg, Austin H. Kutscher, Paul R. Patterson, Lester C. Mark.
Provides a thanatologic perspective on cardiovascular disease with the goal being adaption to life regardless of the deficit from the pre-disease physical state and performance levels.
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980] ©1980 |
Year of Publication: | 1980 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgment
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Principles of Thanatology
- Part I. Psychosocial Aspects of Care
- 1. Care of the Patient with Coronary Heart Disease
- 2. Care of the Severely Ill Cardiovascular Patient
- 3. Approaches to the Seriously Cardiac Patient
- 4. Psychological Intervention During Transfer from the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- 5. The Psychosocial Needs of the Cardiovascular Patient
- Part II. Personality Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease
- 6. Introduction to Part II: The Cardiovascular Patient
- 7. Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease
- 8. Sudden, Unexpected Death in Patients with Healed Myocardial Infarction
- 9. The Role of Type A Behavior Pattern in Coronary Heart Disease
- 10. Thoughts on the Current Status of Investigations of Personality Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease
- 11. Toward an Index of Emotional Drain: A Comparative Study of Coronary Patients and Controls
- Part III. Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Surgery
- 12. Interactions Among Patient, Family, Cardiovascular Surgeon, And Staff
- 13. Psychosocial Implications of Surgery for the Life-Threatened
- 14. Heart Disease, Heart Surgery, and Death
- 15. Psychological Preparation of the Cardiac Surgery Patient
- 16. Surgery and the Congenital Cardiac Patient
- 17. Assessing and Expanding the Coping Abilities of the Child Hospitalized for Cardiac Surgery
- 18. Nursing Care of the Cardiosurgical Patient
- 19. The Rapid Rise of Heart Clubs
- 20. Changes in Family Interrelationships Following Cardiac Surgery
- Part IV. Care of the Stroke Patient
- 21. The Stroke Patient
- 22. Stroke Symptoms and Their Implications
- Part V. The Life-Threatened Patient
- 23. To Die from Cancer or from a Heart Attack
- 24. Cardiovascular Disease and Cancers Comparisons and Contrasts
- 25. Role of Death Concern in Cardiac Illness
- 26. A Cardiac Patient Speaks Out
- 27. Reflections on Facing Death
- 28. Two Men, Four Episodes
- 29. Commemoration Wishes
- Part VI. Commentaries from Physicians
- 30. An Amateur Looks at Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease
- 31. Responsibility of the Physician in the Preservation of Life
- 32. Death
- Part VII. Psychosocial Aspects of Bereavement
- 33. Understanding Your Grief
- 34. Methodological Problems in Assessing the Relationship Between Acuteness of Death and the Bereavement Outcome
- 35. Survivors of Cardiovascular and Cancer Deaths
- 36. Living with Cardiovascular Disease: A Widow’s Perspective
- Appendixes
- A. The Facts of Cardiovascular Disease
- B. The California “Right To Die” Law
- C. The Living Will
- D. Confidential Financial Checklist for the Terminally Ill
- General Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors