Finding Comfort in the Discomfort of Difficult Conversations with Military Patients

Implementation and feasibility considerations of an avatar‐based intervention for military family caregivers

“…Communication with providers can also be important for MFCGs who often represent the care recipient at medical appointments, but also need to be able to seek treatment at their own medical appointments or letting providers know about their role as a caregiver. Recent research has called for enhanced communication training with military providers to improve patient‐provider communication regarding difficult conversations, which could include conversations with MFCGs about health‐related challenges of caregiving (S. L. Wilcox & Varpio, ). A review of skills training for dementia caregivers by Eggenberger, Heimerl, and Bennett () found improved communication skills can help to reduce caregiver challenges and is associated with improved health‐related outcomes in caregivers and recipients.…”

Anti-Calvinist? : ceremonial conformity and Laudian writing, reconsidered (c. 1590-1640)

“…A2v-3r). 103 These duties repeat the original outline of Christian religion in the first pages of Ancilla Pietatis.…”

“…The fifth chapter concerns itself with "the small number of them that shall be saved." In it, Tymme subtly denies double predestination, the belief that God predestines both the elect and the damned: "To this objection [that God damns so many] it may thus bee answered: First that mercy may bee saide to exceede his justice, for that our whole salvation is of his mercy, and our damnation of our selves, as from the first and principall cause thereof" (103). While Tymme does not elaborate here on how salvation via God's mercy works, he relegates damnation to mankind, whose sins come from their own willful ignorance or disobediencesomething present in those who do not suffer themselves to bow their heads in humility before holiness (122).…”

“…ceremonial associated with the Catholic Mass," citing Cranmer's "Of Ceremonies" promoting "decent order and godly discipline" in the services of British liturgy, but the poem has no other reference to ceremony or service. 103 Contrarily, Whalen writes that "even if many of his contemporaries would have recognized these as the trappings of the Roman Mass, Herbert does not dismiss the use of such external finery per se. His objection, rather, pertains specifically to the idea that externals might themselves effectually conjure or somehow contain their divine referents."…”

“…Summe of Saving Knowledge, 8 103. While Featley does not use the word motherly or matron, he does cite the Handmaid and Mistress, and personifies Devotion as female.…”