Mental Health & Values
Prepare to talk about recovery goals, daily life, treatment concerns, privacy and chosen support. Optional evidence on religion, stigma and chaplain collaboration.
View the evidence →Cross-cutting · Counseling & Support
Counseling & Support
"Counseling" and "support" mean different things to different people: a psychiatric consultation, a grief counselor, a hospital chaplain, a social worker coordinating care. Each is covered below with its own sources. This page is a map, not new evidence.
Psychological & Psychiatric Care
Depression and anxiety in serious illness, screening instruments, evidence-based psychosocial interventions, and demoralization syndrome.
View the evidence →Grief & Bereavement Counseling
Prolonged Grief Disorder, anticipatory grief, and the Medicare hospice bereavement-counseling mandate (42 CFR §418.64(d)).
View the evidence →Spiritual Care & Chaplaincy
Chaplaincy evidence and the FICA spiritual-history tool (pastoral, not clinical, support).
View the evidence →Interdisciplinary Care Team
Social workers and the wider care team's role in counseling and support, alongside nursing, medicine, and chaplaincy.
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