Wednesday, May 28, 2008
6 items for 6 months.....
The aim of this blog is to highlight just one item per month which might prove interesting to professionals involved in bereavement care. On this occasion, as the blog has not been done for 6 months, you are referred to 6 items! The first is a book. The next four are chosen from a select review of articles cited on CINAHL, PsychLit and Medline for 2007. The last is an abstract from a new journal on end of life care which is published in conjunction with St Christopher’s Hospice.
One of the most recent useful publications on bereavement has been made available online:
Relf Marilyn, , Machin Linda, Archer Nikki.
Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care
Help the Hospices 2008
http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/servicedev/downloads/bereavement_needs_assessment_guide.pdf
Reviewing the stages of grief in a new way:
Maciejewski PK, Zhang B, Block SD, Prigerson HG
An empirical study of the stages of grief
JAMA. 2007;297:716-723.
Full text
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/7/716
(Many of JAMA articles are available free of charge electronically after 1 year. Comments on the article were made in the journal but are not yet available free electronically in full text. An erratum on a confusing sentence has also been published)
Another article published in the last year is now available online free of any fees:
Lautrette A, Darmon M, Megarbane B, Joly LM, Chevre ST, AdrieC, M.D et al.
A communication strategy and brochure for relatives of patients dying in the ICU
New England Journal of Medicine 2007; 356: 469-478
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/5/469
(The value of written information is confirmed in this research)
The following provide links to abstracts only though all will be available from the library at St Christophers’ Hospice
Currier JM, Holland JM, Neimeyer RA
The effectiveness of bereavement interventions with children: a meta-analytic review of controlled outcome research.
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 2007; 36(2): 253-9
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17484697
Moules NJ, Simonson K, Fleiszer AR, Prins M, Glasgow B
The soul of sorrow work: grief and therapeutic interventions with families
Journal of Family Nursing 2007; 13(1): 17-41
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17220385
Platts R, Gray C, Vora V, Park J
The Teddy Bear scheme- supporting children and their families as they prepare for loss and bereavement.
End of Life Care 2008;2(2);78
This is the abstract of a poster presented at the recent 7th Palliative Care Congress in Glasgow. It is a project at St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield which aims to ensure that children feel welcome and included when they visit the hospice. It centres on the imaginative use to which a teddy bear and a rucksack can be put, in enabling meaningful communication between patients and their young visitors.
Any queries, contact d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk
One of the most recent useful publications on bereavement has been made available online:
Relf Marilyn, , Machin Linda, Archer Nikki.
Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care
Help the Hospices 2008
http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/servicedev/downloads/bereavement_needs_assessment_guide.pdf
Reviewing the stages of grief in a new way:
Maciejewski PK, Zhang B, Block SD, Prigerson HG
An empirical study of the stages of grief
JAMA. 2007;297:716-723.
Full text
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/7/716
(Many of JAMA articles are available free of charge electronically after 1 year. Comments on the article were made in the journal but are not yet available free electronically in full text. An erratum on a confusing sentence has also been published)
Another article published in the last year is now available online free of any fees:
Lautrette A, Darmon M, Megarbane B, Joly LM, Chevre ST, AdrieC, M.D et al.
A communication strategy and brochure for relatives of patients dying in the ICU
New England Journal of Medicine 2007; 356: 469-478
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/5/469
(The value of written information is confirmed in this research)
The following provide links to abstracts only though all will be available from the library at St Christophers’ Hospice
Currier JM, Holland JM, Neimeyer RA
The effectiveness of bereavement interventions with children: a meta-analytic review of controlled outcome research.
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 2007; 36(2): 253-9
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17484697
Moules NJ, Simonson K, Fleiszer AR, Prins M, Glasgow B
The soul of sorrow work: grief and therapeutic interventions with families
Journal of Family Nursing 2007; 13(1): 17-41
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17220385
Platts R, Gray C, Vora V, Park J
The Teddy Bear scheme- supporting children and their families as they prepare for loss and bereavement.
End of Life Care 2008;2(2);78
This is the abstract of a poster presented at the recent 7th Palliative Care Congress in Glasgow. It is a project at St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield which aims to ensure that children feel welcome and included when they visit the hospice. It centres on the imaginative use to which a teddy bear and a rucksack can be put, in enabling meaningful communication between patients and their young visitors.
Any queries, contact d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk
