Why is Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP) effective? Enhanced sense of meaning as the mechanism of change for advanced cancer patients
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Meaning-centered group psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
OBJECTIVES An increasingly important concern for clinicians who care for patients at the end of life is their spiritual well-being and sense of meaning and purpose in life. In response to the need for short-term interventions to address spiritual well-being, we developed Meaning Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP) to help patients with advanced cancer sustain or enhance a sense of meaning, peac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psycho-Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1057-9249
DOI: 10.1002/pon.4578