New Advances in Palliative Care
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2176
Special Issue Editors
Interests: holistic psychotherapy; therapeutic and bio psychosynthesis; mindfulness; consciousness therapy with adult and older adult patients affected by different diseases (e.g., cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer, fibromyalgia, etc.) and their caregivers; stress management (health workers, psycho-oncology, psychoneuroimmunology, palliative care)
Interests: psychotherapeutic interventions (holistic psychotherapy, therapeutic and bio psychosynthesis, mindfulness, humanistic-existential psychotherapies); psycho-oncology; psychoneuroimmunology; palliative care
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adult and elderly patients affected by diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease, and degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's) may suffer from a variety of physical symptoms that adversely affect their quality of life. In addition to the physical causes, there may also be psychological, social, or spiritual causes for these distressing symptoms (such as depression, difficulties in interpersonal relationships, financial problems, a lack of meaning in life). Thus, a novel approach to healthcare application is characterized by advanced research methods of the multidimensional analysis of patients' clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual conditions and the application of these methods in clinical populations with particular attention to elderly patients. The results of multidisciplinary palliative interventions from these studies must be tailored to the needs of the individual patient. Articles addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue, particularly those that combine a high academic standard with a practical focus on providing optimal multidisciplinary intervention solutions in the context of palliative care.
Dr. Anna Vespa
Dr. Maria Velia Giulietti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- palliative care
- physical health
- quality of life
- depression
- social support
- adults
- older people
- personality
- mindfulness
- psychotherapy
- consciousness
