Background
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The work of palliative care teams is especially challenging in that they work with seriously ill and dying patients as well as their highly stressed families. Furthermore, they are also confronted with stressors like work overload, understaffing or lack of organization. Despite these challenges, most palliative care team members do not perceive end of life care as a heavy burden, but see their work as a source of personal and professional fulfilment and meaningfulness [Interprofessional teamwork is based on the collaboration of different people with different backgrounds, expertise and experience. This can lead to challenges such as different perspectives, poor communication or role conflicts. Nevertheless, collaboration focuses on the exchange of different knowledge and skills, and can be based on three points: diversity, friction and harmonization. Diversity means the inclusion of different professional perspectives. While friction means the overlapping of ideas with possible divergent interest, harmonization brings these ideas together into a common force. The combination of those three points can result in effective team collaboration, both for the team and for the patient care [In this regard, techniques from the field of mind–body-medicine such as mindfulness and compassion are feasible instruments [