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Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days now Available

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Published by Oxford University Press, this text provides a blueprint for the psychological intervention Dignity Therapy developed by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov and his internationally lauded research team. Dignity Therapy has been designed to address many of the psychological, existential and spiritual challenges that patients and families face as they grapple with the reality of life drawing to a close.

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Recent publications by Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit

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Eliciting Personhood Within Clinical Practice: Effects on Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers. Chochinov HM, McClement S, Hack T, Thompson G, Dufault B, Harlos M. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Dec 17. pii: S0885-3924(14)00914-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.11.291. FREE

Health care, health caring, and the culture of medicine. Chochinov HM. Current Oncology. 2014 Oct;21(5):e668-9.

The secret is out: patients are people with feelings that matter. Chochinov HM. Palliat Support Care. 2013 Aug;11(4):287-8.

Dignity in care: time to take action. Chochinov HM. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2013 Nov;46(5):756-9.

Cause and rate of death in people with schizophrenia across the lifespan: a population-based study in Manitoba, Canada. Kredentser MS, Martens PJ, Chochinov HM, Prior HJ. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2014 Feb;75(2):154-61.

 Health care provider communication: An empirical model of therapeutic effectiveness. Chochinov, H. M., McClement, S. E., Hack, T. F., McKeen, N. A., Rach, A. M., Gagnon, P., Sinclair, S., Taylor-Brown, J. (2013), Cancer. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27949

This paper provides an empirical model of optimal therapeutic effectiveness, offering healthcare professionals detailed insights regarding the elements of effective communication and psychosocial care for patients experiencing illness-related distress.

This article can also be accessed from:

• ResearchGate: (researchgate.net/profile/Harvey_Chochinov/)
• Cancer – Wiley Online Library
• Pubmed

Supplemental Material:

1. Table of theme and sub-theme definitions and exemplars
2. One page black and white handout of Model of Therapeutic Effectiveness
3. One page colour handout of Model of Therapeutic Effectiveness

Eliciting Personhood Within Clinical Practice: Effects on Patients, Families

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Chochinov HM, McClement S, Hack T, Thompson G, Dufault B, Harlos M. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Dec 17. pii: S0885-3924(14)00914-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.11.291. FREE

This study introduces a brief, effective means of getting personhood onto the clinical radar. Asking the Patient Dignity Question (PDQ) i.e. what do I need to know about you as a person to give you the best care possible appears to provide benefits for patients, family members and healthcare providers alike.

https://dignityincare.ca/images/pdq.pdf

UK Study Shows Benefits of Dignity Therapy for Distressed Patients

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Hall S, Goddard C, Martin P, Opio D, Speck P. Psychooncology. 2012. 10.1002/pon.3206

Collaborators at Kings College in London, England  published a study in the October 2012 edition of Psychooncology outlining results of a case study designed to explore in detail the impact of DT on distressed patients with advanced cancer.

Dignity therapy (DT) has been developed to help reduce distress experienced by people nearing the end of life; however, evaluations of this novel intervention have largely involved non-distressed samples.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23055454