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- Title
To Accompany, Always: Psychological Elements of Palliative Care for the Dying Patient.
- Authors
Rosenberg, Leah B.; Brenner, Keri O.; Shalev, Daniel; Jackson, Vicki A.; Seaton, Michelle; Weisblatt, Samuel; Jacobsen, Juliet C.
- Abstract
Palliative care clinicians provide psychological support throughout their patients' journeys with illness. Throughout our series exploring the psychological elements of palliative care (PEPC), we suggested that the quality of care is enhanced when clinicians have a deeper understanding of patients' psychological experience of serious illness. Palliative care clinicians are uniquely poised to offer patients a grounded, boundaried, and uplifting relationship to chart their own course through a life-altering or terminal illness. This final installment of our series on PEPC has two aims. First, to integrate PEPC into a comfort-focused or hospice setting and, second, to demonstrate how the core psychological concepts previously explored in the series manifest during the dying process. These aspects include frame/formulation, attachment, attunement, transference/countertransference, the holding environment, and clinician wellness.
- Subjects
MEDICAL quality control; WELL-being; SOCIAL support; TERMINALLY ill; NURSING specialties; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; HOSPICE nurses; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; PALLIATIVE treatment; THERAPEUTIC alliance
- Publication
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2022, Vol 25, Issue 4, p537
- ISSN
1096-6218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jpm.2021.0667