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Authors: Lichtenthal, W. G.; Roberts, K. E.; Jankauskaite, G.; Craig, C.; Wiatrek, D.; Sharpe, K.; Breitbart, W.
Editor: Breitbart, W.
Article/Chapter Title: Meaning-centered group psychotherapy for breast cancer survivors
Abstract: Breast cancer survivors (BCS) have voiced that their greatest unmet need is support for existential issues. Despite the central role that finding meaning and purpose plays in their adjustment, there is an absence of empirically supported interventions that focus on enhancing meaning as a means of addressing the psychosocial challenges that BCS often face. Meaning-centered group psychotherapy for breast cancer survivors (MCGP-BCS), which has been adapted from meaning-centered group psychotherapy for advanced cancer patients, addresses this need. We believe MCGP-BCS has the therapeutic potential to address the challenges in finding meaning that many BCS face. It represents a response to the unmet need of survivors for support targeting existential issues. This chapter describes our efforts, in collaboration with the American Cancer Society, to adapt and pilot test MCGP-BCS, which is being delivered "virtually" through a web-conferencing application to facilitate connections among survivors who may not be able to return to the cancer treatment facility at which they were treated for support. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: breast cancer; survivors; group psychotherapy; meaning-centered psychotherapy; existential issues
Book Title: Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting: Finding Meaning and Hope in the Face of Suffering
ISBN: 978-0-19-983722-9
Publisher: Oxford University Press  
Publication Place: New York, NY
Date Published: 2017-01-01
Start Page: 54
End Page: 66
Language: English
ACCESSION: 2016-61203-004
PROVIDER: Ovid Technologies
PROVIDER: psycinfo
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199837229.003.0004
DOI/URL:

http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&D=psyc13&AN=2016-61203-004
Notes: Book Chapter: 4 -- Source: PsycINFO
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  1. William S Breitbart
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  2. Caraline Demirjian
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  3. Kailey Erin Roberts
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  4. Wendy Gail Lichtenthal
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  5. Greta Jankauskaite
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