Publications by authors named "Leara Glinzak"
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- The case discusses a palliative care approach that includes art and narrative therapy for a woman with chronic pain and Burkitt lymphoma, who underwent quadruple amputation due to treatment complications.
- The integration of these therapies with traditional palliative care provided trauma-informed support and improved the patient’s ability to cope and manage pain effectively.
- Emphasizing teamwork, the case highlights how creative therapies can be especially beneficial in addressing complex needs for patients facing long hospital stays.
Hope's role in the care of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) who have advanced cancer (AC) is not well understood. This study aimed to conceptualize the essence of hope among AYAs who have AC based on their lived experiences and illustrate hope through verbal and artistic depictions of the AYA's lived experiences. Fifteen AYAs, aged 12 to 21 years, diagnosed with AC completed two semistructured interviews to share their lived experiences of hope perspectives in the form of a descriptive narrative and a creative-art outcome.
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