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Jan 13, 2022 · Focusing on patients with advanced cancer and/or terminal care, we found nine types of existential psychotherapies which were investigated using randomized controlled trials (RCTs): Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP), Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (IMCP), Meaning-Making intervention (MMi), Meaning of Life Intervention ...
Therapeutic interventions that aim at improving meaning, meaning-making, and spiritual well-being can potentially be beneficial for cancer patients. These therapies, implicitly or explicitly, promote a re-evaluation of life priorities (and a possible response shift) to be able to adapt to the cancer experience.
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Jul 20, 2015 · Breitbart et al then commented, “A number of interventions focused primarily on existential issues have not targeted patients with advanced or terminal cancer.” 1(p749) Yet our intervention, supportive-expressive group therapy (SEGT), is explicitly focused on social and emotional support for discussions of dying and reordering life priorities in the face of death. 4–6 (Despite the ...
- David Spiegel
- 2015
Nov 1, 2023 · Existential-integrative approaches are a range of therapies that integrate existential therapies with other therapeutic modalities, often short-term. Existential-experiential therapies focus on the client's experiences and felt sense, such as Eugene Gendlin's focusing methods.
The relationship between meaning in life and existential givens seems relatively unexplored, and it seems unclear how therapists can integrate them. The present article aims to explore the relationship between meaning and existential givens.
- Joël Vos
- 2015
Jun 26, 2014 · Method: Martin Heidegger was a founder of existentialism, inspiring both meaning therapies and supportive–expressive therapies. Therefore, we systematically apply his understanding of these phenomena, elucidated by four elements in his central metaphor of “the house.” Results:
Operationalizations of existential distress have included fear of cancer recurrence, death anxiety, demoralization, hopelessness, dignity-related distress, and the desire for hastened death.