Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses, teachers, funeral directors, and members of the clergy discuss the crucial physical, emotional, and psychological issues that patients and their families must confront when death is imminent. They address a variety of topics including terminal illness, chronic illness, loss, grief, and pain. Ideal for professionals who work with dying people and their families, Suffering highlights topics that are particularly common when working with AIDS patients, cancer patients, children, the elderly, and the mentally ill.

Ideal for professionals who work with the dying and their families, here is an insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies focusing on sufferingamong AIDS patients, cancer patients, children, the elderly, the mentally ill, and physicians. Learn to understand, cope with, and even overcomeand help others overcomeemotional and physical suffering.