Wednesday, March 02, 2011
4 online documents and 3 books
Arthur A et al.
Bereavement care services: a synthesis of the literature
Dept of Health 2011
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_123810.pdf
This is a very useful report that builds on the work of Wimpenny (blog April 2007). It brings together a range of research-based evidence that underpins existing provision and future service developments in England. It provides an overall synthesis of the major literature and categories this under four headings a) need for service provision b)current provision c)effectiveness of bereavement care interventions and services d)cost effectiveness. It examines service provision in terms of levels of intervention similar to NICE guidelines
It provides useful summaries of key literature and concludes with a number of recommendations for future practise and research.
Scottish Government Health Directorate.
Shaping bereavement care.
Scottish Government 2010
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/327965/0105922.pdf
This document was for consultation and its aim is principally to suggest policy changes that would enable quality care prior to death, at the time of death and immediately post-death for all dying people and their relatives. It sits a complementary doc
Shaping bereavement care – consultations responses
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/12/22154532/0
44 responses were received using a questionnaire. There are an interesting array of organisations that responded to the consultation and the current developments involve employing a coordinator, setting up some short –term projects and having a major conference following these initiatives – sometime towards the end of 2011.
http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/CEL2011_09.pdf
(24th February 2011)
Relf M, Machin L, Archer N
A study into implementing “Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care”.
Help the Hospices 2010
http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/hweb/get_Document.aspx?id=5265
This involved action research involving 3 British hospices and approximately 100 staff in those hospices and dealt with their responses to implementing bereavement needs assessment (BNA). The findings suggest that its implementation would a) have significant implications for organisations in terms of new procedures and protocols b)professional practitioners are challenged by the need to adopt and integrate new ways of thinking into practice. The original guidance is mentioned in May 2008 of this blog –and a book review provided lively debate between the reviewer and the authors. See below
Payne M. Book review. Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care. Bereavement Care 2008 v27 no3 p60
Relf M, Archer N, Machin L, Payne M. Book review discussion on "Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care". Bereavement Care 2009 v28 no1 p46-49
Graves Dodie
Talking with bereaved people. An approach for structured and sensitive communication.
Jessica Kingsley 2010
The author identifies six elements for establishing good communication with bereaved people. – a story, a relationship, a life to celebrate, a legacy for those left behind, a strategy for coping and a journey to undertake. Another chapter is about the exploration of difficult issues. A colleague has used this model in teaching a multidisciplinary group of palliative care professionals and has found it works well as an introduction to bereavement counselling. The author works at an English hospice.
Monroe B, Kraus F
Brief interventions with bereaved children.2nd edition
Oxford University Press 2010
Edited and partly written by St Christopher’s Hospice staff, this book provides a variety of interventions used by health professionals to help bereaved children. Some chapters provide an approach to dealing with these issues – other chapters focus on particular groups of children eg children with learning disablilities, very young children.
(Available from St Christopher’s Hospice bookshop. £29.95 plus postage d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk)
Buckle JL Fleming S
Parenting after the death fo a child. A practitioner’s guide
Routledge 2011
This Canadian study provides a detailed account of qualitative research with 10 bereaved parents, including 2 couples. Although the research as an in-depth evaluation of bereaved mothers and fathers separately, the impact of one spouse on another is accounted for in many of the themes. While is it is primarily a description of research, many verbatim extracts from the interviews are provided so it is a book that could be useful not only to practitioners but also to bereaved siblings and parents.
Bereavement care services: a synthesis of the literature
Dept of Health 2011
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_123810.pdf
This is a very useful report that builds on the work of Wimpenny (blog April 2007). It brings together a range of research-based evidence that underpins existing provision and future service developments in England. It provides an overall synthesis of the major literature and categories this under four headings a) need for service provision b)current provision c)effectiveness of bereavement care interventions and services d)cost effectiveness. It examines service provision in terms of levels of intervention similar to NICE guidelines
It provides useful summaries of key literature and concludes with a number of recommendations for future practise and research.
Scottish Government Health Directorate.
Shaping bereavement care.
Scottish Government 2010
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/327965/0105922.pdf
This document was for consultation and its aim is principally to suggest policy changes that would enable quality care prior to death, at the time of death and immediately post-death for all dying people and their relatives. It sits a complementary doc
Shaping bereavement care – consultations responses
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/12/22154532/0
44 responses were received using a questionnaire. There are an interesting array of organisations that responded to the consultation and the current developments involve employing a coordinator, setting up some short –term projects and having a major conference following these initiatives – sometime towards the end of 2011.
http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/CEL2011_09.pdf
(24th February 2011)
Relf M, Machin L, Archer N
A study into implementing “Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care”.
Help the Hospices 2010
http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/hweb/get_Document.aspx?id=5265
This involved action research involving 3 British hospices and approximately 100 staff in those hospices and dealt with their responses to implementing bereavement needs assessment (BNA). The findings suggest that its implementation would a) have significant implications for organisations in terms of new procedures and protocols b)professional practitioners are challenged by the need to adopt and integrate new ways of thinking into practice. The original guidance is mentioned in May 2008 of this blog –and a book review provided lively debate between the reviewer and the authors. See below
Payne M. Book review. Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care. Bereavement Care 2008 v27 no3 p60
Relf M, Archer N, Machin L, Payne M. Book review discussion on "Guidance for bereavement needs assessment in palliative care". Bereavement Care 2009 v28 no1 p46-49
Graves Dodie
Talking with bereaved people. An approach for structured and sensitive communication.
Jessica Kingsley 2010
The author identifies six elements for establishing good communication with bereaved people. – a story, a relationship, a life to celebrate, a legacy for those left behind, a strategy for coping and a journey to undertake. Another chapter is about the exploration of difficult issues. A colleague has used this model in teaching a multidisciplinary group of palliative care professionals and has found it works well as an introduction to bereavement counselling. The author works at an English hospice.
Monroe B, Kraus F
Brief interventions with bereaved children.2nd edition
Oxford University Press 2010
Edited and partly written by St Christopher’s Hospice staff, this book provides a variety of interventions used by health professionals to help bereaved children. Some chapters provide an approach to dealing with these issues – other chapters focus on particular groups of children eg children with learning disablilities, very young children.
(Available from St Christopher’s Hospice bookshop. £29.95 plus postage d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk)
Buckle JL Fleming S
Parenting after the death fo a child. A practitioner’s guide
Routledge 2011
This Canadian study provides a detailed account of qualitative research with 10 bereaved parents, including 2 couples. Although the research as an in-depth evaluation of bereaved mothers and fathers separately, the impact of one spouse on another is accounted for in many of the themes. While is it is primarily a description of research, many verbatim extracts from the interviews are provided so it is a book that could be useful not only to practitioners but also to bereaved siblings and parents.
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