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To Accompany, Always: Psychological Elements of Palliative Care for the Dying Patient. Journal of palliative medicine Rosenberg, L. B., Brenner, K. O., Shalev, D., Jackson, V. A., Seaton, M., Weisblatt, S., Jacobsen, J. C. 2022

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.

View details for DOI 10.1089/jpm.2021.0667

View details for PubMedID 35263176