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I Can’t Stop Crying: Grief and Recovery, A Compassionate Guide

“This book looks at how being bereaved affects relationships with family and friends, lifestyle, work habits, and hopes for the...

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Screening for Distress, the 6th Vital Sign: A Guide to Implementing Best Practices in Person-Centred Care

Building on the working draft released in 2009, this guide offers a series of modules providing the steps and considerations necessary...

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Counselling with Caregivers: A Guide for Professionals

This book sensitizes healthcare practitioners to the challenges faced by caregivers, and provides practical advice reassessing their needs and offering...

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Anxiety in Palliative Care - Causes and Diagnosis (#186)

Online fact sheet outlining potential causes and diagnosis for palliative patients.
 

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I Don’t Want Jenny To Think I’m Abandoning Her: Views On Overtreatment

A palliative care physician helps a cancer patient cope with her coming death, while her oncologist struggles to give up...

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The role of social workers in palliative, end of life and bereavement care

This resource aims to ensure that people benefit from good social work at the end of their life, and that...

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Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care

Effective teaching video on the topic of empathy;  4 minutes & 24seconds in length.

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When a parent dies by suicide...What kids want to know

The Centre of Addiction and Mental Health has developed a brochure which will help prepare you to take the first...

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Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine

This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot...

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Optimising the role and value of the interdisciplinary team: Providing person-centred end of life care

Effective interdisciplinary teamwork, with its emphasis on person-centred communication, is increasingly seen as a way of integrating and co-ordinating care....

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