Innovations in Palliative Psychology: Tools for Managing Stress, Decision Making and Bereavement between Prevention, Engagement, Resilience and Spirituality
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 June 2024) | Viewed by 14082
Special Issue Editors
2. Research Fellow, Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Interests: death; dying; palliative care; ethnographic and longitudinal research; effectiveness of psychological interventions with standardized instruments; dignity in end-life; self-determination in end-life choices; support for dying people; support for caregivers; anxiety of death and its management; representations of death; Terror Management Theory; spirituality and religiosity; epistemology of ontological representations of life
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Interests: psychology research; methodology; assessment; forensic psychology; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Palliative psychology is an increasingly important field of study and research in the area of palliative care, a complex form of care for people living with a serious illness, aimed to enhance quality of life for both the patient and their family, providing relief from the symptoms and distress. Indeed, the role of psychology in palliative care affects all areas of supportive intervention for at every stage of the illness. Simultaneous care involves taking care of the patient and his or her family from breaking bad news to grieving after death. Research, intervention and education in the field of psychology offer increasingly effective tools for all those working in palliative care. The professional skills required in palliative care are in fact grounded in Psychology because they are inherent in the areas of relationships, communication, stress management and emotions.
In this broad territory, diagnostic and operational tools for managing decision-making processes, distress caused by the experience of loss and bereavement, compassion fatigue, burden, moral distress, and burnout among professionals emerge in importance. Moreover, the most innovative intervention techniques increasingly value the use of creative arts therapies, spirituality, and engagement strategies with patients, family members, and health professionals for strengthening resilient resources and social support networks.
Main topics:
- Decision making processes in End of Life (EOL);
- Cultural conflicts in the EOL processes;
- Grief and bereavement management;
- Improvement of social support;
- Strategies for improving the family engagement;
- Spirituality, religiosity and resilience;
- Prevention of burden, burnout, moral distress, emotional labour;
- Assessment for professionals, families and patients facing death.
- Statistical models to the role of different variables involved in burnout, distress, prolonged grief;
- Psychological education for professionals in palliative care.
Prof. Dr. Ines Testoni
Prof Dr. Santo Di Nuovo
Dr. David Lazzari
Guest Editor
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