Guest Editors:
Bárbara Antunes: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Eva Katharina Masel: Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Christian Schulz-Quach: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada
BMC Palliative Care has published this Collection on palliative care challenges and interventions in people affected by mental illnesses.
Dr. Bárbara Antunes: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dr. Bárbara Antunes, MSc, Ph.D., obtained her Ph.D. in Health Services and Clinical Research at the School of Medicine of the University of Porto, Portugal. Her work was about improving outcome measurement for advanced disease patients and their families by enhancing the clinical utility of patient-centered outcome measures and understanding how best to implement them in clinical practice. Her current work is mainly on anticipatory prescribing and how to standardize its practice without compromising individualized patient care.
Dr. Eva Katharina Masel: Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Eva Katharina Masel, MD, Ph.D., MSc, is head of the Clinical Division of Palliative Medicine at the Vienna General Hospital of the Medical University of Vienna and a Professor of Palliative Medicine. She is the research group leader of the Research Group Palliative Care at the Medical University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the palliative care of patients and families facing serious illnesses, symptom management, treatment of psychiatric comorbidities and psychosocial aspects, and medical humanities.
Dr. Christian Schulz-Quach: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada
Dr. Christian Schulz-Quach, MD, MSc, MA, MRCPSych, is a staff psychiatrist at the Department of Supportive Care, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. He is a Clinician Educator and Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a board-certified Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist with work experience in Germany, UK, US, and Canada. He has specialty training in Psychosomatic Medicine, Medical Psychotherapy, and Palliative Medicine and is a candidate at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. His special interest is Existential Psychoanalysis.
BMC Palliative Care has published this Collection on palliative care challenges and interventions in people affected by mental illnesses.
Traditionally, palliative care has focused on patients living with life-threatening somatic diseases such as cancer or progressive neurological disorders. However, in recent years there has been a growing interest in palliative care approaches in severe and persistent mental illness, accompanied by introducing the ‘palliative psychiatry’ concept. While curative psychiatry focuses on the mental disorder with the aim of (partial) remission, palliative psychiatry offers valuable means of improving the quality of life of patients with severe mental illnesses, recognizing that some psychiatric symptoms are irremediable.
In recognition of the emerging field, BMC Palliative Care has published this Collection which encouraged submissions including but not limited to those addressing:
• Palliative care interventions for people with mental illnesses
• Palliative care interventions for people who develop mental illness when/after being diagnosed with a life-threatening condition
• Benefits and risks of a palliative approach to psychiatry
• Attitudes of healthcare professionals toward palliative psychiatry
• Advance Care Planning and mental illness
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