{"title":"When Pain Becomes the Teacher: Confronting My Own Suffering while Learning to Heal.","authors":"João Carlos Geber-Junior","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144326008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Letter:</i> Response to Feder et al., Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study.","authors":"Shelli L Feder, Tracy L Shamas, Kathleen M Akgün","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144326007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ptr Shannon Blower, Jonathan Walker, Lucius Walker, Steven Radwany
{"title":"Fireproofing the Soul: Navigating Fear of the Afterlife Among Palliative Care Patients.","authors":"Ptr Shannon Blower, Jonathan Walker, Lucius Walker, Steven Radwany","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among palliative care patients, spiritual uncertainty about what may await them after death is a fairly common but often overlooked source of anxiety. Specifically, patients (especially those from orthodox Christian backgrounds that propound the concept of hell as a literal place) may harbor unexpressed fears about being consigned to hell due to the perceived sins they have committed in life. Such fears can be genuinely debilitating and may result in non-responsiveness to traditional palliative therapy. Here, we discuss our experiences with this phenomenon and propose some possible solutions. We offer readers suggestions for how to best identify potential sufferers, broach the subject with such patients, and reassure them.</p>","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144317167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palliative Obstinacy: when Palliative Care Approaches Therapeutic Obstinacy.","authors":"Leonardo Bohner Hoffmann, Daniel Neves Forte","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144317169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Love a Tender Thing?","authors":"Sandhya Seshadri","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144317168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assisted Suicide in Italy: There Is Great Chaos Under Heaven.","authors":"Sebastiano Mercadante","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144302372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Open Spaces and The Valley Between.","authors":"Mona Tareen","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144302373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sheri M Kittelson, John W Merriman, Karen Daily, Parta Hatamizadeh, Pooja Gurram, Gonzalo J Acosta, Manuel A Amaris, Mohammed Ruzieh, Raed Al Yacoub, Celine Cattier, Paulette C Hahn
{"title":"<i>Letter:</i> The Role of a Division Education Director in Advancing Palliative Care Education.","authors":"Sheri M Kittelson, John W Merriman, Karen Daily, Parta Hatamizadeh, Pooja Gurram, Gonzalo J Acosta, Manuel A Amaris, Mohammed Ruzieh, Raed Al Yacoub, Celine Cattier, Paulette C Hahn","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2025.0173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2025.0173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144310102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren B Finkelstein, Christopher P Wojdak, Jamie L Studts, Joanna J Arch
{"title":"Writing Content Predicts Outcomes in Written Exposure to Worst-Case Scenarios for Advanced Cancer.","authors":"Lauren B Finkelstein, Christopher P Wojdak, Jamie L Studts, Joanna J Arch","doi":"10.1089/jpm.2024.0463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2024.0463","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b><i>Background:</i></b> A novel written exposure-based coping intervention (EASE) for distressed adults with advanced cancer focused on their cancer-related worst-case scenario and showed promise for reducing cancer-related trauma symptoms and fear of cancer progression (FoP). This study examines potential mechanisms of change, specifically linguistic features of participants' writing. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Adults (<i>N</i> = 28) with advanced solid tumor (<i>n</i> = 23) or high-risk blood cancer (<i>n</i> = 5) reporting elevated trauma or FoP participated. Writing was collected during five weekly intervention sessions (three exposure, two coping) and analyzed using linguistic software (LIWC-22). Outcomes were assessed pre-intervention and one-week post-intervention. <b><i>Results:</i></b> More positive (trauma: <i>ηp</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.64, <i>p</i> < 0.001; FoP: <i>ηp</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.34, <i>p =</i> 0.011) and negative (FoP: <i>ηp</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.38, <i>p =</i> 0.007) emotion words during exposure writing sessions predicted worse outcomes, while more death-related words predicted reduced FoP (<i>ηp</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.22, <i>p</i> = 0.023). Positive tone in coping writing sessions predicted reduced FoP (<i>ηp</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.31, <i>p</i> = 0.009), while negative tone predicted worse FoP (<i>ηp</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.22, <i>p</i> = 0.026). <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> Findings offer preliminary support for several proposed mechanisms of this novel written exposure intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":16656,"journal":{"name":"Journal of palliative medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144284991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}