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  • Psychology
  • Palliative Care

Background:

  • Care relationships are fundamental in medicine.
  • Palliative care offers essential interpersonal support for patients and families facing serious illness and end-of-life.
  • Therapeutic holding is a critical, yet often underexplored, component of effective medical care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify key elements of therapeutic holding within palliative care.
  • To explore the application of psychodynamic therapy principles to enhance therapeutic holding.
  • To illustrate the practical implementation of therapeutic holding in a palliative care setting.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized theoretical foundations of psychodynamic therapy.
  • Identified six major concepts contributing to therapeutic holding.
  • Presented a case study demonstrating a palliative care team's creation of therapeutic holding with psychodynamic therapist involvement.

Main Results:

  • Psychodynamic theory provides a framework for discerning and describing elements of therapeutic holding in palliative care.
  • The case study exemplified how a multidisciplinary team, including a psychodynamic therapist, successfully established therapeutic holding.
  • Therapeutic holding was illuminated as a crucial factor in effective palliative care delivery.

Conclusions:

  • Psychodynamic therapy offers valuable insights and practical applications for enhancing therapeutic holding in palliative care.
  • Further research is recommended to explore the multifaceted role of therapeutic holding in palliative care settings.
  • Integrating psychodynamic principles can significantly improve patient and family support during serious illness.