Coaching Family Caregivers to Become Better Problem Solvers When Caring for Persons with Advanced Cancer.
J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care
; 12(1-2): 63-81, 2016.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27143574
ABSTRACT
Family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer often take on responsibilities that present daunting and complex problems. Serious problems that go unresolved may be burdensome and result in negative outcomes for caregivers' psychological and physical health and affect the quality of care delivered to the care recipients with cancer, especially at the end of life. Formal problem-solving training approaches have been developed over the past several decades to assist individuals with managing problems faced in daily life. Several of these problem-solving principles and techniques were incorporated into ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life End), an "early" palliative care telehealth intervention for individuals diagnosed with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. A hypothetical case resembling the situations of actual caregiver participants in ENABLE that exemplifies the complex problems that caregivers face is presented, followed by presentation of an overview of ENABLE's problem-solving key principles, techniques, and steps in problem-solving support. Though more research is needed to formally test the use of problem-solving support in social work practice, social workers can easily incorporate these techniques into everyday practice.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Problem Solving
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Family
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Caregivers
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Neoplasms
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care
Journal subject:
CIENCIAS SOCIAIS
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States