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Why is working with adolescents and young adults so hard? Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach

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So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. We really need to figure out who we are in the world and that takes your physical identity, your sexual identity, your vocational goals. The family dynamics are different though. Abby: Yeah.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). I wonder if you could tell that story for our listeners. George Soros had the project on Death in America.

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