Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease : The Life-Threatened Patient, the Family, and the Staff / James Reiffel, Robert Debellis, Bernard Schoenberg, Austin H. Kutscher, Paul R. Patterson, Lester C. Mark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Debellis, Robert, Editor.

Kutscher, Austin H., Editor.

Kutscher, Lillian G.

Mark, Lester C., Editor.

Patterson, Paul R., Editor.

Reiffel, James, Editor.

Schoenberg, Bernard, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgment

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Principles of Thanatology / Carr, Arthur C.

Part I. Psychosocial Aspects of Care

1. Care of the Patient with Coronary Heart Disease / Ruskin, H. D.

2. Care of the Severely Ill Cardiovascular Patient / Wright, Irving S.

3. Approaches to the Seriously Cardiac Patient / Moser, Marvin

4. Psychological Intervention During Transfer from the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit / Shortridge, Lillie

5. The Psychosocial Needs of the Cardiovascular Patient / Moss, Steven A.

Part II. Personality Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease

6. Introduction to Part II: The Cardiovascular Patient / Hutschnecker, Arnold A.

7. Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease / Harris, Raymond

8. Sudden, Unexpected Death in Patients with Healed Myocardial Infarction / Wolf, Stewart G.

9. The Role of Type A Behavior Pattern in Coronary Heart Disease / Rosenman, Ray H.

10. Thoughts on the Current Status of Investigations of Personality Patterns and Coronary Heart Disease / Blumenthal, James A.

11. Toward an Index of Emotional Drain: A Comparative Study of Coronary Patients and Controls / Bruhn, John G.

Part III. Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Surgery

12. Interactions Among Patient, Family, Cardiovascular Surgeon, And Staff / Billig, Donal M.

13. Psychosocial Implications of Surgery for the Life-Threatened / Glenn, Frank

14. Heart Disease, Heart Surgery, and Death / Blacher, Richard S.

15. Psychological Preparation of the Cardiac Surgery Patient / Keon, W. J. / Coombs, R. K.

16. Surgery and the Congenital Cardiac Patient / Humphreys, George H.

17. Assessing and Expanding the Coping Abilities of the Child Hospitalized for Cardiac Surgery / Baranowitz, Adrienne / Chan, Joan

18. Nursing Care of the Cardiosurgical Patient / Chow, Rita K.

19. The Rapid Rise of Heart Clubs / Wittstein, Raphael L.

20. Changes in Family Interrelationships Following Cardiac Surgery / Greenhill, Maurice H. / Frater, Robert W. M.

Part IV. Care of the Stroke Patient

21. The Stroke Patient / Brust, John C. M.

22. Stroke Symptoms and Their Implications / Eson, Morris E. / Paul, Boris J.

Part V. The Life-Threatened Patient

23. To Die from Cancer or from a Heart Attack / Eys, Jan van

24. Cardiovascular Disease and Cancers Comparisons and Contrasts / Williams, Roger R.

25. Role of Death Concern in Cardiac Illness / Gentry, W. Doyle

26. A Cardiac Patient Speaks Out / Rostoker, Jack B.

27. Reflections on Facing Death / Lefkowitz, Nathan

28. Two Men, Four Episodes / Parnes, Yvonne M.

29. Commemoration Wishes / Lefkowitz, Nathan

Part VI. Commentaries from Physicians

30. An Amateur Looks at Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease / Page, Irvine H.

31. Responsibility of the Physician in the Preservation of Life / Epstein, Franklin H.

32. Death / Burch, George E.

Part VII. Psychosocial Aspects of Bereavement

33. Understanding Your Grief / Carr, Arthur C.

34. Methodological Problems in Assessing the Relationship Between Acuteness of Death and the Bereavement Outcome / Clayton, Paula J. / Parilla, Ramon H. / Bieri, Michael D.

35. Survivors of Cardiovascular and Cancer Deaths / Clayton, Paula J. / Parilla, Ramon H. / Bieri, Michael D.

36. Living with Cardiovascular Disease: A Widow's Perspective / Vachon, M. L. S. / Freedman, K. / Rogers, J. / Lyall, W. A. L. / Formo, A. / Freeman, S. J. J.

Appendixes

A. The Facts of Cardiovascular Disease / Shaffer, Aaron B. / Click, Gerald

B. The California "Right To Die" Law

C. The Living Will

D. Confidential Financial Checklist for the Terminally Ill / Nadel, Edwin / Parker, John

General Bibliography

Index

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88885-6

OCLC:

1100447063