A series of six interprofessional palliative care meetings used narrative, with participants
sharing stories from their professional experience in facilitated small groups. The course …

Narrative permeates health care—from patients' stories taken as medical histories to the
development of health policy. The narrative approach to health care has involved the move …

Clinical experience tells us that the activity of 'putting the house in order'as patients reach
the terminal stage in their illness is both a common and legitimate exercise. This process …

The purpose of the research project was to determine the impact of palliative care education
and the writing of a reflective narrative on nurses' self-awareness of their attitudes toward …

Sandra, a 42-year-old secretary and divorced mother of two young sons, experiences
periodic upsurges of grief following the death of her mother from cancer three years ago …

A narrative approach allows psychosocial teams to stand alongside children who have
cancer, or life‐threatening illnesses, and their families at critical times and to create stories of …

Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and
promote change. Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are …

Bereavement, understood as the loss of a significant person through death, can challenge
the mourner's self-narrative in a way that requires active meaning reconstruction to revise or …

Storytelling can be therapeutic. For the person, it is both validating and valuing—as nothing
else can do. There is a connection between old age and spirituality and a quest for …

This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical
stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life …