Family focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative care
Palliative care refers to offering physical, psychosocial and spiritual care to patients who are suffering from life threatening diseases. It also includes providing psychological support for family members and other close relations during the period of illness (anticipatory grief) and in the period...
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| description | Palliative care refers to offering physical, psychosocial and spiritual care to patients who are suffering from life threatening diseases. It also includes providing psychological support for family members and other close relations during the period of illness (anticipatory grief) and in the period of bereavement and mourning after the patient's death. The choice of therapy during the process of bereavement and mourning is Family Focused Grief Therapy (FFGT). FFGT is a brief, focused and time-limited psychotherapeutic model of intervention belonging to family psychotherapy which is specified for the families that face a life threatening disease of a family member. FFGT, with some modifications, can be applied in work with the families who are facing a terminal illness of younger family members - a child or an adolescent. FFGT typically comprises of 7 to 9 sessions lasting for 90 minutes, which are arranged flexibly across 9 to 18 months, depending on the needs of each family individually. It is important to emphasize that the frequency and number of sessions in each phase depend on the specific features and needs of each particular family. The intervention aim of FFGT is to prevent the complications of bereavement by enhancing the functioning of the family, through exploration of its cohesion, communications (of thoughts and feelings), and handling of conflict. The story of illness and the related grief is shared in the process. The creator of this model is Dr David Kissane, a psychiatrist and a family psychotherapist from Melbourne, Australia, who also worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. The main aims of this article are, on the one hand, to introduce this very useful model of the family therapy to the professional community in Serbia and, on the other, to introduce a conceptual and practical frame of palliative care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-808e1cfe9ee74e6d9cebb6c6fac7bb822022-12-22T03:30:39ZengUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of PsychologyPsihološka Istraživanja0352-73792560-306X2017-01-0120231934110.5937/PsIstra1702319K0352-73791702319KFamily focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative careKlikovac Tamara0Filozofski fakultet, Odeljenje za psihologiju, Beograd + Belhospis centar za palijativno zbrinjavanje, BeogradPalliative care refers to offering physical, psychosocial and spiritual care to patients who are suffering from life threatening diseases. It also includes providing psychological support for family members and other close relations during the period of illness (anticipatory grief) and in the period of bereavement and mourning after the patient's death. The choice of therapy during the process of bereavement and mourning is Family Focused Grief Therapy (FFGT). FFGT is a brief, focused and time-limited psychotherapeutic model of intervention belonging to family psychotherapy which is specified for the families that face a life threatening disease of a family member. FFGT, with some modifications, can be applied in work with the families who are facing a terminal illness of younger family members - a child or an adolescent. FFGT typically comprises of 7 to 9 sessions lasting for 90 minutes, which are arranged flexibly across 9 to 18 months, depending on the needs of each family individually. It is important to emphasize that the frequency and number of sessions in each phase depend on the specific features and needs of each particular family. The intervention aim of FFGT is to prevent the complications of bereavement by enhancing the functioning of the family, through exploration of its cohesion, communications (of thoughts and feelings), and handling of conflict. The story of illness and the related grief is shared in the process. The creator of this model is Dr David Kissane, a psychiatrist and a family psychotherapist from Melbourne, Australia, who also worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. The main aims of this article are, on the one hand, to introduce this very useful model of the family therapy to the professional community in Serbia and, on the other, to introduce a conceptual and practical frame of palliative care.http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0352-7379/2017/0352-73791702319K.pdfpalliative carepsychosocial supportfamily therapymourning |
| spellingShingle | Klikovac Tamara Family focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative care Psihološka Istraživanja palliative care psychosocial support family therapy mourning |
| title | Family focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative care |
| title_full | Family focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative care |
| title_fullStr | Family focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative care |
| title_full_unstemmed | Family focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative care |
| title_short | Family focused grief therapy: The therapy of choice in palliative care |
| title_sort | family focused grief therapy the therapy of choice in palliative care |
| topic | palliative care psychosocial support family therapy mourning |
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