Product Description

Palliative care is dedicated to ensuring that patients experience physical, spiritual and emotional ease as death approaches; bereavement care supports those who are left with the difficult task of coping after the death. The arts offer a powerful medium of assisting people to achieve understanding and peace of mind. The arts offer a means through which people can reflect on memories, hopes, fears and anxieties, and gently explore the emotional, spiritual, and psychological issues that aid a full understanding of themselves and their conditions. At the same time, they can serve as a way to communicate difficult and complex feelings to professionals or family members which cannot always be articulated in everyday conversation. This introductory book outlines a range of successful programmes that have been pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings, and range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like the writing and performing of a play. "Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts" offers valuable insights and inspiration for any practitioner working in a palliative care setting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159569 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .57" h x 6.40" w x 9.14" l, .76 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

About the Author
Gillie Bolton is a freelance consultant in therapeutic writing and reflective practice writing and lives in central London. She is Literature and Medicine Editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities (BMJ) Arts and Health editor to Progress in Palliative Care, Associate Editor of the Journal of Poetry Therapy and author of the key creative writing therapy texts, Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities and The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself, both published by Jessica Kingsley publishers.