TY - BOOK ID - 78493044 TI - Meaning-centered group psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer : a treatment manual AU - Breitbart, William AU - Poppito, Shannon R. PY - 2014 SN - 0199380678 0199387958 9780199387953 9780199837250 0199837252 9780199380671 019022357X 9780190223571 PB - Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mental healing. KW - Cancer. KW - Imagery (Psychology) KW - Imagery, Mental KW - Images, Mental KW - Mental imagery KW - Mental images KW - Imagination KW - Visualization KW - Cancers KW - Carcinoma KW - Malignancy (Cancer) KW - Malignant tumors KW - Tumors KW - Absent treatment KW - Health thoughts KW - Mind-cure KW - Psychic healing KW - Alternative medicine KW - Healing KW - Parapsychology KW - Mind and body KW - Therapeutics, Suggestive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493044 AB - The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of ""meaning"" in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population. Clinicians are focusing on the development of non-pharmacologic interventions that can address issues such as hopelessness, loss of meaning, and spiritual well-being in patients with advanced cancer at the end of life. This effort led to an exploration and analysis of the work of V ER -