"Life Within the Person Comes to The Fore": Pastoral Workers' Practice Wisdom on Using Arts in Palliative Care.

CONCLUSION: Pastoral workers interpret that offering art-based modalities in palliative care can help patients and families to symbolically deal with painful memories and experiences, creatively engage with that deemed significant, and/or encounter a sense of transcendence. Training in generalist art-based care needs to be offered in pastoral education.
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Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - January 1, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Authors: O'Callaghan C, Byrne L, Cokalis E, Glenister D, Santilli M, Clark R, McCarthy T, Michael N Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research