Clinical evaluation of theMood and Symptom Questionnaire (MSQ) in a day therapy unit in a palliative support centre in the United Kingdom.

Objective: To evaluate the use of the Mood and Symptom Questionnaire (MSQ) within a program of structured psychosocial interventions in a Supportive and Palliative Care Center. Palliative care patients have a range of psychological symptoms as well as physical symptoms. Considerable expertise in controlling pain and fear of pain, other physical symptoms, and psychosocial distress has been built up in hospices and palliative care units.

Reflections on the experience of counseling supervision by a team of genetic counselors from the UK.

Despite it being generally acknowledged that counseling supervision is a vital part of the work for experienced genetic counselors and not just students, not all practising genetic counselors in the United Kingdom and Eire have access to this yet. This case study documents the supervision experience of our team of genetic counselors from Cambridge in the U.K.

Challenging the representations of cancer pain: experiences of a multidisciplinary pain management group in a palliative care unit.

Objective: This article describes how a Multidisciplinary Pain Management Group was set up in a palliative care unit, and outlines the ways that the group works with different patients. We place these comments in the context of the wider representations of pain.

Methods: Our observations of patients seen by the multidisciplinary team.

End of life care for adult cystic fibrosis patients: facilitating a good enough death.

Background: There is little empirical research on end of life care for CF patients from qualitative, psychosocial perspectives or which examines how staff members manage specific issues raised by cystic fibrosis deaths. This study examined how a number of recent deaths have been handled in an adult CF centre in the UK.

Methods: Multi-perspective psychosocial interview study with patients, staff, and relatives of decedents.