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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Volunteers in Palliative Care
Volunteers are key members of the hospice and palliative care team. In some countries, they are the only source of care provision for a person at a palliative stage of a disease. This chapter highlights both t...
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Article
Open AccessExperiential Avoidance in Advanced Cancer: a Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
People with advanced cancer experience psychological distress due to physical symptoms, functional decline, and a limited prognosis. Difficult thoughts, feelings, and emotions may exacerbate distress and lead ...
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Open AccessTalking control sessions in people with advanced cancer: a qualitative analysis of sessions
Talking control (TC) was developed to control for the common factors in therapy so that the specific effects of therapy can be tested. A TC was recently used in a pilot study of Acceptance and Commitment thera...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Volunteers in Palliative Care
Volunteers are key members of the hospice and palliative care team. In some countries, they are the only source of care provision for a person at a palliative stage of a disease. This chapter highlights both t...
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Article
Open AccessUnderstanding the role of the volunteer in specialist palliative care: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Volunteers make a major contribution to palliative patient care, and qualitative studies have been undertaken to explore their involvement. With the aim of making connections between existing studies to derive...
