Meaning-centered group psychotherapy: Live with sense. A pilot study

  • Francisco Luís Gil Moncayo Unidad de Psico-Oncología. Institut Català d´Oncología. Hospital Duran i Reynals, Barcelona, Spain.
  • William Breitbart Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_PSIC.2013.v10.n2-3.43446
Keywords: Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy, group therapy, cancer, psychotherapy.

Abstract

Introduction: The patients with advanced cancer express feelings of hopelessness, wish to advance the death, and high levels of anxiety and depression associated to the loss of sense of life.
Aims: The main aim of the Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy is to help to the patients with cancer to live with sense, of a full way, keeping and expanding the sense of his life, living in peace and with an aim in the life.
Participants and Method: At present, we are conducting the pilot study, as first step of the project of validation of the Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy Model. We have performance two of the three groups of patients with advanced cancer that corresponds to the present pilot study, and are doing the transcription of each one of the sessions of the groups, for his back qualitative analysis.
Results: The Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy show a reduction of anxiety and depression, hopelessness and wish to advance the death in patients with advanced cancer, at the same time to increase the spiritual welfare and the feeling of sense.

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Published
2013-11-25
How to Cite
Gil Moncayo F. L. y Breitbart W. (2013). Meaning-centered group psychotherapy: Live with sense. A pilot study. Psicooncología, 10(2-3), 233-245. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_PSIC.2013.v10.n2-3.43446
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Vol. 10 No. 2-3 (2013)
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