 The
Palliative Care and Hospice Caregiver's Educational Guide
sharing the journey with the dying
Lura L Pethtel and John D Engel
Institute
for Professionalism Inquiry, Summa Health System
Foreword by Timothy Quill
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and
Medical Humanities, Director, Center for Palliative Care and
Clinical Ethics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and
Dentistry, USA
ISBN-10
1846193842 ISBN-13
9781846193842
This educational guide helps
people who build compassionate relationships with dying people.
Comprising a Workbook and an Educator's Guide, it presents a comprehensive,
sequential learning program for caregivers in non-medical capacities
covering everything from self-understanding to spiritual issues,
listening skills and expressive activities, developing the skills,
awareness and resilience needed for this privileged and sensitive
role.
The program includes a variety of learning experiences, including
large and small group activities, discussion, close reading,
creative writing, self exploration, and skill development and
practice.
This is an invaluable resource for small groups of individuals who
wish to volunteer in hospice or palliative care settings. Workbooks
can be individually purchased
here for £15.00 each. The complete
educational guide pack costs just £75.00 and comprises six Workbooks
and a printed Educator's Guide, and can be purchased
here. The Educator's Guide is also
freely available online - details inside the Workbook.
The best
resource I have seen to guide teachers and learners in this
complex training process. I predict that those of you who try it
with your staffs and trainees will find that it bears fruit both
for your patients and their families, but also for the
sustenance and personal development of the staff members
themselves.’
Timothy Quill, M.D., in his
Foreword
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