title: Beyond pain--the search for hope in the patient's journey.
abstract: Hope is the foundation of the cancer patients' world and it is when the darkness is most profound that hope emerges as the true reality. Hope remains the patients' inner strength, a dynamism that grows more powerful even as the physical body weakens. We humans are always hoping for something and The Hope System addresses all levels of the entire cancer experience: physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual. By systematically learning how to recognize and honor patients' hopes, each of us can support him/her from first diagnosis to last breath in a way that is healing and positive for all. Utilizing this simple, powerful tool enables us to tap into the patient's ever changing reality, the role hope plays in one's life while confronting one's mortality, and be able to listen, hear and accompany them each step on their final life into death journey.
authors.affiliation: cfbtt@whidbey.com
authors.forename: Cathleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fanslow-Brunjes
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D065026:Hope; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D010146:Pain