Adaptation and continuous learning: integrative review of coping strategies of palliative care professionals
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This episode features Prof. Mar\\xeda Arantzamendi (Institute for Culture and Society, ATLANTES, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra,\\xa0Spain).
Coping is essential to manage the challenges that palliative care professionals face in their daily clinical work and most well-known explanations focus on emotion or problem-based coping. Many of the\\xa0studies about coping tend to focus on its effect and consequences. The last review about coping in palliative1 care used a dichotomous approach for influential factors (risk or protective), professional and\\xa0personal strategies.
Coping can include a variety of strategies from proactive coping, self-care based coping, self-transforming coping and encountering deep professional meaning. Specific training, healthcare team, professional\\xa0motivation and family were found to be sometimes protective and other times risk factors. Emotional burden and the systemic or administrative factors always appear as risk factors. Throughout a dynamic\\xa0adaptation and learning process over time, coping strategies and influencing factors become intertwined; impacting on professional and personal development throughout the career.
Palliative care professionals coping strategies evolve and change, being intrinsically related to a progressive and greater response capacity with respect to emotionally demanding situations. Coping\\xa0mechanisms in palliative care imply a personal and professional development, extending beyond the management of emotions and problems, or the separation between personal and environment aspects.\\xa0The professional development is a central pillar in training on providing healthcare to others and can be promoted through training self-awareness. The coping process seemed to be linked to the development\\xa0of professional careers in palliative care.