ArticleBMC medical ethics2020
A palliative care approach in psychiatry: clinical implications.
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- Mapping the ethical aspects in end-of-life care for persons with a severe and persistent mental illness: A scoping review of the literature.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Palliative psychiatry in a narrow and in a broad sense: A concept clarification.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2022Article
- Ketamine as a Novel Psychopharmacotherapy for Eating Disorders: Evidence and Future Directions.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Palliative Psychiatry for Patients With Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: A Survey on the Attitudes of Psychiatrists in India Compared to Psychiatrists in Switzerland.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Ageism, human rights and ethical aspects of end-of-life care for older people with serious mental illness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- A thematic analysis of care provider experiences of using self-harm abstinence agreements in psychiatric inpatient care.Nursing open · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundTraditionally, palliative care has focused on patients suffering from life-threatening somatic diseases such as cancer or progressive neurological disorders. In contrast, despite the often chronic, severely disabling, and potentially life-threatening nature of psychiatric disorders, there are neither palliative care units nor clinical guidelines on palliative measures for patients in psychiatry. MAIN TEXT: This paper contributes to the growing literature on a palliative approach in psychiatry and is based on the assumption that a change of perspective from a curative to a palliative approach could help promote patient-centeredness and increase quality of life for severely ill patients in psychiatry as well as in somatic medicine. To exemplify this, we offer three different clinical scenarios: severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, treatment-refractory schizophrenia, and chronic suicidality and persistent self-injury in borderline personality disorder.
conclusionWe emphasize that many typical interventions for treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders may indeed be of a palliative nature. Furthermore, introducing traditional features of palliative care, e.g. so-called goals of care conversations, could aid even further in ensuring that caregivers, patients, and families agree on which treatment goals are to be prioritized in order to optimize quality of life in spite of severe, persistent mental disorder.
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