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The Importance of Translating Evidence Into Practice in Counseling Individuals With Life-Threatening Illness

Kenneth J. Doka is the editor of Omega and the author of Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice (Research Press, 2002) and co-author with Terry L. Martin of Grieving Beyond Gender; Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn (Routledge, 2010). Elizabeth Lobb, Professor of Palliative Care at Calvary Health Care Sydney and Cunningham Centre for Palliative Care, has established national and international research collaborations and pursued independent multidisciplinary clinical collaborations in oncology, hematology, cancer genetics, and palliative care for 17 years. She has worked clinically as a bereavement counselor for 26 years. Her research interests include the communication of prognosis in metastatic cancer, doctor=patient communication, the needs of patients with high-grade gliomas and their carers, bereaved carers of women with ovarian cancer, couple communication on end-of-life issues, and complicated grief. Along with several co-authors, she wrote ‘‘Communicating with Realism and Hope: Incurable Cancer Patients’ Views on the Disclosure of Prognosis,’’ Journal of Clinical Oncology, 23, 1278–1288.