To Accompany, Always: Psychological Elements of Palliative Care for the Dying Patient

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 patie...

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Published inJournal of palliative medicine Vol. 25; no. 4; p. 537
Main Authors Rosenberg, Leah B, Brenner, Keri O, Shalev, Daniel, Jackson, Vicki A, Seaton, Michelle, Weisblatt, Samuel, Jacobsen, Juliet C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.04.2022
Subjects
Countertransference
Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
Hospice Care
Hospices
Humans
Palliative Care - psychology
Terminal Care
therapeutic alliance
psychosocial issues
death and dying
hospice
coping
physician–patient relationship
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1557-7740
DOI:10.1089/jpm.2021.0667