Content & Focus: This article considers the role (and potential roles) of practitioner
psychologists in contributing to specialist palliative care in the UK, as developed from …

Interdisciplinary palliative care services have been rapidly expanding in health care settings
over the past 10 years, particularly through the establishment of interdisciplinary palliative …

Current approaches to multidisciplinary working in specialist palliative care generally
acknowledge the need for psychological care and the contribution of specialist …

Palliative Psychology provides clinical, evidence-based training in palliative and end of life
care for clinical psychologists to accomplish specific therapeutic goals. Chapters provide a …

Emotional and existential suffering is prevalent in advanced diseases and psychologists
have valuable skills to support people in this time of life. Yet, psychologists are rarely …

Historically, hospice care developed as a response to perceived inadequacies in the care of
dying patients and their families (Clark 2002). The pioneering work of hospices such as St …

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care service which has been rapidly expanding in
health care settings, differentiated between two levels. The first level is administered in …

Caring for people who are dying has been seen as a special form of care for centuries. In the
first millennium the church was closely involved with such care and the original hospices …

A team of two practitioners in psychosocial palliative care and an academic have drawn
together the work of twenty-eight highly experienced practitioners. Good Practices in …

Background Compassion fatigue refers to the emotional and physical exhaustion felt by
professionals in caring roles, whereas compassion satisfaction encompasses the positive …