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

TitleTo Accompany, Always: Psychological Elements of Palliative Care for the Dying Patient.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsRosenberg LB, Brenner KO, Shalev D, Jackson VA, Seaton M, Weisblatt S, Jacobsen JC
JournalJ Palliat Med
Volume25
Issue4
Pagination537-541
Date Published2022 Apr
ISSN1557-7740
KeywordsCountertransference, Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing, Hospice Care, Hospices, Humans, Palliative Care, Terminal Care
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.

DOI10.1089/jpm.2021.0667
Alternate JournalJ Palliat Med
PubMed ID35263176
PubMed Central IDPMC10162575
Grant ListK24 AG053462 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States