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Psychological needs 1: Fostering hope

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Journal articles

Benzein E. Norberg A. Saveman BI. The meaning of the lived experience of hope in patients with cancer in palliative home care. Palliative Medicine. 2001; 15(2):117-26.

Chelf JH. Deshler AM. Hillman S. Durazo-Arvizu R. Storytelling. A strategy for living and coping with cancer. Cancer Nursing. 2000; 23(1): 1-5.

Clark D. Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying. BMJ. 2002; 324: 905-7.

Cutcliffe JR. Herth K. The concept of hope in nursing 1: its origins, background and nature. British Journal of Nursing. 2002; 11(12): 832-40.

Herth K. Enhancing hope in people with a first recurrence of cancer. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2000; 32(6):1431-41.

Kennett CE. Participation in a creative arts project can foster hope in a hospice day centre. Palliative Medicine. 2000; 14(5): 419-25.

Moadel A. Morgan C. Fatone A. Grennan J. Carter J. Laruffa G. Skummy A. Dutcher J. Seeking meaning and hope: self-reported spiritual and existential needs among an ethnically-diverse cancer patient population. Psycho-Oncology. 1999; 8(5): 378-85.

Penson J. A hope is not a promise: fostering hope within palliative care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 2000; 6(2): 94-8.

Rustoen T. Wiklund I. Hope in newly diagnosed patients with cancer. Cancer Nursing. 2000; 23(3): 214-9.

Warr T. The physician's role in maintaining hope and spirituality. Bioethics Forum. 1999; 15(1): 31-7.

Resource books and websites

Effective Interaction with Patients, 2nd ed ED Faulkner A. New York : Churchill Livingstone, 1998.

Introducing Palliative Care 3rd ed. Twycross R. Abingdon : Radcliffe Medical Press, 1999.

Talking to Cancer Patients and their relatives Faulkner, A. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

A Guide to Symptom Relief in Palliative Care, 5th ed. Regnard C, Hockley J.  Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2004

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine 3rd ed. Doyle D, Hanks G, Cherny NI, Calman K eds. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.