This micro skills course from the Association for Palliative Medicine explores the background to patients challenging questions and identifies the skills that can be used to respond to them.

This micro skills course from the Association for Palliative Medicine identifies common reasons why patients approaching the end of their lives react angrily. It also looks at how this can be identified and the most effective responses professionals can use.

This micro skills lesson from the Association for Palliative Medicine explores the patient with a life threatening illness who finds it hard to accept their diagnosis or to talk openly, is said to be in denial. This presents specific challenges for the practitioner, which will be explored in this session alongside the skills required to approach such situations.

This micro skills lesson from the Association for Palliative Medicine explores the concerns patients and their partners may have about intimacy and sex when approaching the end of life. It examines the challenges this raises for professionals and how most effectively to approach the topic.

This micro skills lesson from the Association for Palliative Medicine describes collusion and explores the reasons for this behaviour and effective approaches to managing it.

This micro skills course from the Association for Palliative Medicine explores the communication challenges in moving a patient who is approaching the end of their life from one place of care to another.