Palliative Care: the importance of teamwork and therapeutic alliance

Abstract

This paper focuses on the issue of exploration of Palliative Care, stressing the importance of teamwork and therapeutic alliance. Palliative Care is active and comprehensive, it is also delivered by multidisciplinary teams who have had proper training to deal with patients that suffer of advanced and terminal disease, besides their families, when curative treatment not responds. Our objectives emphasise on ascertaining the evolution that this subject has had overtime, and explore the current importance given to the subject. To reach the goals it was made looking at databases, searching for existing research on the topic. It ends with a conclusion, offering answers to the objectives reflected on the topic and work made, enhancing tips and showing some contributions that might emerge.