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Meaning-centered group psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer : a treatment manual / William S. Breitbart, Shannon R. Poppito.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0199387958
  • 9780199387953
  • 9780190223571
  • 019022357X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Meaning-centered group psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer.DDC classification:
  • 616.99/40651 23
LOC classification:
  • RC271.M4 B742 2014
NLM classification:
  • QZ 200
Online resources:
Contents:
Session 1. Concepts & sources of meaning : introductions & meaning -- Session 2. Cancer & meaning : identity before & after cancer diagnosis -- Session 3. Historical sources of meaning : life as legacy that has been given [past] -- Session 4. Historical sources of meaning : life as legacy that one lives [present] & gives [future] -- Session 5. Attitudinal sources of meaning : encountering lifes limitations -- Session 6. Creative sources of meaning : creativity, courage & responsibility -- Session 7. Experiential sources of meaning : connecting with life -- Session 8. Transitions : reflection & hopes for future.
Summary: The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of ""meaning"" in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population. Clinicians are focusing on the development of non-pharmacologic interventions that can address issues such as hopelessness, loss of meaning, and spiritual well-being in patients with advanced cancer at the end of life. This effort led to an exploration and analysis of the work of V.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Session 1. Concepts & sources of meaning : introductions & meaning -- Session 2. Cancer & meaning : identity before & after cancer diagnosis -- Session 3. Historical sources of meaning : life as legacy that has been given [past] -- Session 4. Historical sources of meaning : life as legacy that one lives [present] & gives [future] -- Session 5. Attitudinal sources of meaning : encountering lifes limitations -- Session 6. Creative sources of meaning : creativity, courage & responsibility -- Session 7. Experiential sources of meaning : connecting with life -- Session 8. Transitions : reflection & hopes for future.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Aug. 27, 2014).

The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of ""meaning"" in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population. Clinicians are focusing on the development of non-pharmacologic interventions that can address issues such as hopelessness, loss of meaning, and spiritual well-being in patients with advanced cancer at the end of life. This effort led to an exploration and analysis of the work of V.

English.

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