• Danielle Chammas, Brianna Williamson, Teddy Scheel, Neha Goyal, Leah B Rosenberg, Daniel Shalev, Alex Gamble, Mike Polisso, William E Rosa, and Keri O Brenner.
• Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
• J Palliat Med. 2024 Sep 13.

AbstractPsychological symptoms are notably prevalent in palliative care (PC) settings, significantly impacting quality of life for patients and their families. Given the inherent multidimensionality of suffering in PC, addressing these psychological aspects is essential. This article aims to introduce and integrate discrete concepts from various schools of psychotherapy, which are directly applicable to PC practices, thereby providing clinicians with a rich toolkit to manage psychological distress. The article focuses on 10 key concepts from different psychotherapeutic traditions. They are a small sample from the vast and deep pool of wisdom contained in psychotherapeutic theory, and they were selected due to their direct applicability to PC practice. Adopting psychotherapeutic principles, along with leveraging the interdisciplinary wisdom inherent in PC practice, enhances our therapeutic relationships in PC and empowers patients to navigate their illness with greater resilience and adaptive coping.

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