Palliative Care: An Opportunity for Mental Health Professionals
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Palliative care: an opportunity for mental health professionals.
It is noteworthy that embedded within the definition of active total care is attention to patients’ psychological concerns and the needs of their families. My last article in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry concluded by saying “within the domains of relief and comfort, where palliative care essentially resides, psychiatry has an expanded and vital role to play” (2). As in all areas of medici...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370404900601