Part I. Psychiatric and psychosocial palliative care: critical milestones -- Hospice and palliative care: a psychiatric perspective / John L. Shuster, Jr., Irene J. Higginson -- Integrating psychiatry and palliative medicine: the challenges and opportunities / J. Andrew Billings, Susan D. Block -- Part II. Psychiatric complications of terminal illness -- An overview of care and management of the patient at the end of life / Edwin H. Cassem -- Diagnosis and management of depression in palliative care / Keith G. Wilson, Mark Lander, Harvey Max Chochinov -- Anxiety in palliative care / Andrew J. Roth, Mary Jane Massie -- Delirium in the terminally ill / William Breitbart, Peter G. Lawlor, Miriam Friedlander -- Suicide and desire for hastened death in the terminally ill / Megan Olden, Hayley Pessin, Wendy G. Lichtenthal, William Breitbart -- Palliative care for patients with serious mental illness / Mary Ellen Foti -- Palliative care for patients with substance abuse and patients with personality disorders / Tatiana D. Starr [and others] -- Part III. Psychosocial issues in palliative care -- What dying people want / David R. Kuhl -- Communication with terminally ill patients and their families / Peter Maguire, Joseph S. Weiner -- Interdisciplinary teamwork in palliative care: compassionate expertise for serious complex illness / Matthew J. Loscalzo, Charles F. von Gunten -- Cultural diversity and palliative care / Leslie J. Blackhall -- Understanding and managing bereavement in palliative care / Sidney Zisook, Scott A. Irwin, M. Katherine Shear -- Family issues and palliative care / David K. Wellisch, David W. Kissane -- Burnout and symptoms of stress in staff working in palliative care / Mary L.S. Vachon, Monika Müller. Part IV. Ethical, existential, and spiritual issues in palliative care -- Ethical issues in palliative care / Edmund D. Pellegrino, Daniel P. Sulmasy -- Personal growth and human development in life-threatening conditions / Ira Byock -- The treatment of suffering in patients with advanced cancer / Nathan I. Cherny -- Dignity, meaning, and demoralization: emerging paradigms in end-of-life care / David W. Kissane [and others] -- Spiritual issues in palliative care / Christina M. Puchalski -- Part V. Understanding and managing symptoms -- Physical symptom management in the terminally ill / Russell K. Portenoy, Badi El Osta, Eduardo Bruera -- Psychiatric aspects of pain management in patients with advanced cancer and AIDS / William Breitbart [and others] -- Eating issues in palliative care paitents / Susan E. McClement -- Psychiatric aspects of fatigue at the end of life / Susan E. Abbey. Part VI. Psychotherapeutic interventions in palliative care -- Individual psychotherapy for the patient with advanced disease / Gary Rodin -- Narrative medicine: writing through bereavement / Robert A. Neimeyer, James W. Pennebaker, Jessica G. van Dyke -- Cognitive-behavioral approaches to symptom management in palliative care: augmenting somatic interventions / Dennis C. Turk, Caryn S. Feldman -- Group psychotherapy and the terminally ill / David Spiegel, Molyn Leszcz -- Family-focuses grief therapy / Sidney Bloch, David E. Kissane -- Part VII. Life cycle considerations in palliative care -- Psychiatric care of the terminally ill child / Margaret L. Stuber, Brenda Bursch -- The child and adolescent in palliative care / Barbara M. Sourkes, Joanne Wolfe -- Special care considerations for the seriously ill older adult / Lynn B. O'Neill, Diane E. Meier, R. Sean Morrison.