Description: Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). A Treatment Manual Author(s): William S. Breitbart, Shannon R. Poppito Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-13: 9780199837250, 978-0199837250 Synopsis 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 Viktor Frankl and his concepts of logotherapy, or meaning-based psychotherapy. While Frankl's logotherapy was not designed for the treatment of patients with life-threatening illnesses, his concepts of meaning and spirituality have inspired applications in psychotherapeutic work with advanced cancer patients, many of whom seek guidance and help in dealing with issues of sustaining meaning, hope, and understanding cancer and impending death in the context of their lives. Individual Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (IMCP), an intervention developed and rigorously tested by the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is a seven-week program that utilizes a mixture of didactics, discussion and experiential exercises that focus around particular themes related to meaning and advanced cancer. Patients are assigned readings and homework that are specific to each session's theme and which are utilized in each session. While the focus of each session is on issues of meaning and purpose in life in the face of advanced cancer and a limited prognosis, elements of support and expression of emotion are inevitable in the context of each group session. The structured intervention presented in this manual can be provided by a wide array of clinical disciplines, ranging from chaplains, nurses, palliative care physicians, to counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, graduate psychology students, psychologists and psychiatrists.
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Book Title: Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advance...
Subject Area: Clinical Psychology
Item Height: 254 mm
Item Width: 188 mm
Author: William S. Breitbart, Shannon R. Poppito
Publication Name: Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer: a Treatment Manual
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Medicine
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 282 g
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
