What is it about?
This review article reports and synthesizes the experience of silence, as an element of care in palliative and other clinical and pastoral settings, from the perspective of professional caregivers.
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Why is it important?
In caring for people at the end-of-life silences can becoming increasingly prevalent. Yet silence is recognised as a complex and ambiguous dimension of human interaction. Experience reported in this review suggests that, where professional caregivers are comfortable to use and practice silence, there are benefits for therapeutic communication.
Perspectives
As a palliative care chaplain I experience the value and the challenges of silence in caregiving encounter first-hand. Research, experience and insight from other settings has enhanced my understanding and informed my clinical practice. I hope that this article may help others to reflect on their own experiences of silence to the benefit of patient care.
Lynn Bassett
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This page is a summary of: Silence as an element of care: A meta-ethnographic review of professional caregivers’ experience in clinical and pastoral settings, Palliative Medicine, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0269216317722444.
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