Main description:

A focus throughout on lifespan perspectives and a consideration of palliative care across all ages.

Consideration of different cultural perspectives, beliefs, thoughts and practices outside Western societies and dominant paradigms.

Integrates primary research throughout, including a focus on contemporary research from social media.

Complements mainstream psychological approaches to life-limiting illness by exploring death, dying and palliative care with a critical health psychology lens.

Contents:

0. Prologue. 1. The underpinnings of children and young people's palliative care - Hospice, spirituality, and existentialism. 2. Children and young people's palliative care needs. 3. Caring relationships in children and young people's palliative care. 4. The vulnerabilities that accompany serious illness in children and young people. 5. Meaning making through reflecting on memories, life storying and legacy leaving. 6. The lived experience of serious illness. 7. Dying well - children and young people's end of life care. 8. Grief and bereavement in children, young people and families. 9. Epilogue.