Tools for Practice

This book sensitizes healthcare practitioners to the challenges faced by caregivers, and provides practical advice reassessing their needs and offering...

A palliative care physician helps a cancer patient cope with her coming death, while her oncologist struggles to give up...

This resource aims to ensure that people benefit from good social work at the end of their life, and that...

In this 3 minute video clip, Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon and author, discusses how to have an end-of-life conversation. He discusses what...

While adults understand the permanence of death rather quickly, children often need more time. Feelings of grief come and go....

Effective teaching video on the topic of empathy;  4 minutes & 24seconds in length.

  Produced to promote communication when caring for First Nations people who speak Oji-Cree.
 

The Centre of Addiction and Mental Health has developed a brochure which will help prepare you to take the first...

This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot...

Effective interdisciplinary teamwork, with its emphasis on person-centred communication, is increasingly seen as a way of integrating and co-ordinating care....