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KMID : 1148220200160030307
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2020 Volume.16 No. 3 p.307 ~ p.331
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A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study on Art Therapists who have Experienced the Death of Patients in Hospice Palliative Care Unit
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Lee Yun-Jung
Park Ji-Sol
Kim Tae-Eun
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Abstract
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This study explores the experiences of art therapists in hospice palliative care who observe patients on their deathbeds and identifies the meaning and essence of their experience to understand them in detail. To this end, Max van Manen’s hermeneutical phenomenological research method was employed. Participants in the study comprised six art therapists who experienced art therapy in hospice palliative care. Five essential themes and 14 sub-themes are derived from the data; the essential themes are as follows: “Sharing the last memories of patients and their families,”“Being witness to patients who attempt to create at the end of their lives,”“Shocked and fearful of patients dying,” “Worrying about when to intervene as an art therapist among medical staff,” and “Contemplating on life and death.” In the special clinical field of hospice palliative care, art therapists who stayed at patients’ deathbeds felt embarrassed but managed to help them in their final moments, wondering about their conflicting role between patients and families and between patients and medical staff and, thus, growing up as art therapists who contemplate on life and death. This study is meaningful in that the analysis of the experience of art therapies who observed patients on their deathbeds led to the conclusion that systematic and professional education and supervision are needed in the field of hospice palliative care.
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KEYWORD
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Art therapist, Hospice Palliative Care, Death, Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study
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