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Sociological Perspectives on Disposal and Ritual
Published in Gerry R. Cox, Neil Thompson, Death and Dying, 2020
It is customary to offer condolences to the family. Condolences are your opportunity to tell the family how you feel about the deceased person and them in their time of grief. If you know the family well, then simply telling them of your sorrow for them and their loss can be helpful. If your relationship with the deceased person was estranged, then express your sorrow for their loss and avoid discussing the deceased. If you are estranged from the family rather than the deceased, then you might either avoid any discussion or if the family is receptive, offer your sorrows to them.
Listening with attitude
Published in Rachel Freeth, Brian Thorne, Mike Shooter, Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care, 2017
Rachel Freeth, Brian Thorne, Mike Shooter
At this point it may be useful to draw attention to the related concept of ‘sympathy’. What is happening when we are offering our sympathies to someone? Sympathy has been likened to sending condolences or commiserations. It has also been described as ‘the state of being simultaneously affected with a feeling similar or corresponding to that of another; the act of sharing in or responding to an emotion, sensation, or condition of another person’ (Oxford English Reference Dictionary, 1996).
Maintaining professional relationships with patients
Published in Allan Peterkin, Alan Bleakley, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond, 2017
If family members are present, express your condolences in an unhurried fashion. (During your education and training, learn all you can about culturally different interpretations of death, burial and mourning, so that you can be sensitive with patients’ families around the death of their loved ones.)
A standardized approach to bereavement risk-screening: a quality improvement project
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2020
Sue E. Morris, Courtney M. Anderson, Sarah J. Tarquini, Susan D. Block
Social Workers in adult psycho-oncology at our institute (N = 17) were invited to participate in the pilot of the standardized bereavement screening and referral process. Social workers were recruited given that the most psychosocially complex cases are typically referred to social work. Eleven social workers volunteered and were asked to complete a paper and pencil version of the Bereavement Risk-Screening Tool (BRST) following the death of all known patients during the period of the project, which ran from March 2016 to September 2016 in two PDSA cycles. Figure 1 outlines the process map followed by the social workers in screening bereaved family members. They were asked to make a condolence telephone call to the identified bereaved family member where possible. However, they did not need to speak to the bereaved family member or meet in person to complete the BRST given that most clinicians were already familiar with the family from the patient’s treatment, and that reaching someone by phone can be difficult. The social worker’s assessment was based on their knowledge of the individual and family, the circumstances of the patient’s death and known possible risk factors.
The challenges of establishing a palliative care collaboration with the intensive care unit: How we did it? A prospective observational study
Published in Progress in Palliative Care, 2021
Choo Hwee Poi, Mervyn Yong Hwang Koh, Wendy Yu Mei Ong, Yu-Lin Wong, Fionna Chunru Yow, Hui Ling Tan
The palliative care team would also provide feedback to the intensivists on the patients’ status. The intensivists appreciated this feedback as it gave them “closure” knowing that their patients were comfortable at the end of life. Bereavement follow-up and condolence cards were also sent to the families.