Meaning-centered psychotherapy Book Section
| Authors: | Applebaum, A. J.; Lichtenthal, W. G.; Pessin, H.; Breitbart, W. |
| Editors: | Chochinov, H.; Breitbart, W. |
| Article/Chapter Title: | Meaning-centered psychotherapy |
| Abstract: | For patients, their loved ones, and caregivers, a diagnosis of an advanced, life-limiting cancer often brings with it a sense of fear and despair. The impact of cancer and its treatment often leads to significant physical limitations and changes in patients' capacity to carry out important roles and activities, which subsequently contributes to a sense of hopelessness and even a desire for hastened death. Meaning-centered psychotherapy (MCP) arose from a need to address this specific challenging clinical problem-a problem for which no effective intervention was yet available. MCP is based heavily on Frankl's concepts of meaning, and incorporates other fundamental existential principles related to the search for, connection with, and creation of meaning. Through a series of didactics and experiential exercises, therapists and patients work together to help patients understand the importance and relevance of sustaining, reconnecting with, and creating meaning in their lives. Importantly, it explores how various sources of meaning in patients' lives can serve as resources to help patients cope with and diminish feelings of despair that emerge at particularly challenging times. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Keywords: | palliative care; patients; caregivers; meaning-centered psychotherapy; experiential exercises |
| Book Title: | Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine: Psychosocial Care of the Terminally Ill. 3rd ed |
| ISBN: | 9780197583838 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication Place: | New York, NY |
| Date Published: | 2023-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 519 |
| End Page: | 530 |
| Language: | English |
| ACCESSION: | 2023-22407-035 |
| PROVIDER: | Ovid Technologies |
| PROVIDER: | psycinfo |
| DOI: | 10.1093/med/9780197583838.003.0035 |
| DOI/URL: | |
| Notes: | Book Chapter: 35, located in "Part VI - Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Palliative Care" -- Source: APA PsycInfo |
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