Objective To explore generalist palliative care providers' experiences of emotional labour
when undertaking conversations around palliative and end-of-life care with patients and …

Psychotherapy with the terminally ill poses special challenges for clinicians and in return
offers unique rewards. As a time limited therapy, acceptance, rather than change is a …

Background: Compassion is considered an essential element in quality patient care. One of
the conceptual challenges in healthcare literature is that compassion is often confused with …

Desire for hastened death: exploring the emotions and the et... : Current Opinion in Supportive
and Palliative Care Desire for hastened death: exploring the emotions and the ethics : Current …

Background: Palliative care clinicians confront suffering as they care for people living with
life-limiting conditions. When the degree of suffering becomes unjustified, moral distress can …

Objective The authors evaluated the performance of the Stressful Caregiving Adult
Reactions to Experiences of Dying (SCARED) scale, a new tool to assess caregiver …

Studies of patients who are terminally ill consistently identify strong associations between
“sense of burden to others” and marked end-of-life distress. However, little research has …

Aim. This paper reports an exploration of the terms acceptance and denial by exploring the
literature, with the aim of understanding the implications of using these concepts to …

Health professionals are vulnerable to occupational stress and tend to report high levels of
secondary trauma and burnout; this is especially so for those working in “high-death” …

This article describes an exploratory, cross-sectional, correlational study designed to
examine the relationships among general coping style, hope, and anticipatory grief in a …