Sharing "off-script": A qualitative analysis of providers' empathic self-disclosures during dignity therapy.
Providers engage in ESD across a range of personal topics in a Dignity Therapy context. Some ESD topics overlapped with those considered appropriate in existing health communication literature. Other topics involved complex or underexamined types of disclosures. While self-disclosures appear to be made with empathic intent, providers undermined the impact of some ESDs by portraying them as unprescribed components of the conversation. More research is needed to assess the positive and negative impacts of ESDs during Dignity Therapy and to support augmentation of Dignity Therapy training protocols to account for providers' ESDs.
Authors
- Susan Bluck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0499-6426)
- Carma L. Bylund (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9335-1496)
- Alyssa Crowe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9905-9267)
- Sheri Kittelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1271-0184)
- Joshua Hauser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1512-0702)
- George Handzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6683-7303)
- Mary Kate Koch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3003-8715)
- Diana J. Wilkie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3954-8933)
- Emily L. Mroz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4539-0252)
- Tithi B. Amin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4732-9511)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- Gonzaga University (US)
- Emory University (US)
- Yale University (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (US)
- HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (US)
- Florida College (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2025-02-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478951524002098
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.88
Funders
- National Institute on Aging
- National Cancer Institute