| Title | To Accompany, Always: Psychological Elements of Palliative Care for the Dying Patient. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2022 |
| Authors | Rosenberg LB, Brenner KO, Shalev D, Jackson VA, Seaton M, Weisblatt S, Jacobsen JC |
| Journal | J Palliat Med |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pagination | 537-541 |
| Date Published | 2022 Apr |
| ISSN | 1557-7740 |
| Keywords | Countertransference, 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. |
| DOI | 10.1089/jpm.2021.0667 |
| Alternate Journal | J Palliat Med |
| PubMed ID | 35263176 |
| PubMed Central ID | PMC10162575 |
| Grant List | K24 AG053462 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States |
