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Clearing Your Grief and Bereavement

Primary Author: Daniel J Benor, MD, International Journal of Healing and Caring

Grief and bereavement are among the most challenging experiences each ofus has to face at one time or another in our life. If you come away from this book with only one message, I hope you come to understand that you can be gentle with yourself as you move through the complex stages of grieving.

With better understanding of the grief process, and learning the tools and skills you will learn in this WHEE BOOK, you will find you are able to markedly lessen your pain and suffering, or those of people under your care, as you move through the grief process.

WHEE: Whole Health - Easily and Effectively
AKA Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT

WHEE is a self-treatment method that is extremely simple to learn and to use, yet very rapidly and deeply effective. Within minutes it can reduce physical and psychological pains, even when these have been present for decades.

WHEE is completely individualized to the preferences and needs of those who use it. No part of WHEE is a requirement. Every aspect of WHEE is but a suggestion - for people to explore and use, as and if it feels right and comfortable to do so.

WHEE addresses spirit, relationships (with other people and the rest of the world), mind, emotions and body (as matter and energy). See discussion on the relationships between each of these and all the others at
http://www.wholistichealingresearch.com/srmeb.html

Date Last Modified 06/01/2010 Case example/study, Continuing Education course, Measure/Rating scale, PBL materials

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, Second Edition

Primary Author: National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care

Developed by a consortium of organizations, the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care apply to specialist-level palliative care (e.g., palliative care teams) delivered in a wide range of treatment settings and to the work of providers in primary treatment settings where palliative approaches to care are integrated into daily clinical practice. Domain 5 of the guidelines covers Spiritual, Religious and Existential Aspects of Care.

Date Last Modified 01/01/2009 Clinical practice guidelines, Report/Document/Book chapter

Closure

Primary Author: Jonathan Weinkle, Jewish Healthcare Foundation

Closure is an initiative to change expectations for end-of-life. Our goal is to empower consumers and healthcare professionals with easy-to-access, simple-to-understand information and resources to make educated decisions about end-of-life care. The Closure website includes blogs, listings of resources, news items, and the Closure 101 curriculum.
Closure 101 is a curriculum of educational lessons dealing with an array of complex end-of-life issues including prognosis, advance planning, medical decision making, and hospice and palliative care. These difficult concepts are explained in a way that is designed to make sense to consumers. The curriculum contains 12 easy-to-follow lessons that can be viewed online or used by health educators to teach in-person. In addition to the lessons, the site contains questionnaires and information sheets that can help guide a person through the decision-making process. Guidelines for creating a Closure 101 program are available on the site.

Date Last Modified 04/04/2011 Website, Article, Continuing Education course, Course curriculum, Manual/guide

Coping with Religious Coping

Primary Author: Kyle B. Brothers, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital

This opinion piece was published in the October 2009 issue of Virtual Mentor, the American Medical Association's online ethics journal. In it Dr. Brothers discusses the The Coping with Cancer Study by Phelps et al., which found that "those patients who reported using positive religious coping methods on a survey instrument were significantly more likely than others to have undergone invasive life support at the end of their lives and to have died in intensive care units."

Dr. Brothers looks at some "limitations of survey-gathered empirical data in describing complex associations between beliefs and end-of-life medical behavior" and concludes that physicians should "develop comfort and confidence in discussing religious beliefs and experiences with patients, propose only reasonable interventions that are medically indicated," and be present even when procedures are not needed.

Date Last Modified 10/01/2009 Article

Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life Care

Primary Author: Harvey Max Chochinov, University of Manitoba

Article from CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (volume 56). Dr. Chochinov provides a brief overview of psychiatric challenges in end-of-life care, a discussion of spiritual or existential suffering toward the end of life, a model of dignity, and practical examples of diagnostic questions and therapeutic interventions to preserve dignity.

Date Last Modified 03/01/2006 Article