To Accompany, Always: Psychological Elements of Palliative Care for the Dying Patient. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

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.

publication date

  • March 8, 2022

Research

keywords

  • Hospice Care
  • Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
  • Hospices
  • Terminal Care

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85128161385

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1089/jpm.2021.0667

PubMed ID

  • 35263176

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 25

issue

  • 4