Developing an emotion‐focused therapy model for fear of cancer recurrence: A case‐level task analysis

Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) involves anxiety about the possible return or progression disease. It is common among people surviving cancer, covering a range adaptive and maladaptive responses including clinical presentations FCR, for which different psychological interventions have been developed, most within cognitive-behavioural paradigm. Recently, emotion-focused therapy (EFT) has proposed as an alternative subject research focusing on population cancer-related issues, FCR. In this study, we looked closely at successful case from larger exploratory carrying out discovery-phase task analysis aimed identifying main components EFT–FCR. We found that approach generally followed usual structure EFT intervention, with four distinct phases. However, identified some specific secondary processes (e.g., hypervigilance catastrophising) clarified nature core pain in presentation existential fear dying).