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‘Dividing the desolation’: clients views on the benefits of a cancer counselling service
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This paper describes clients' accounts of the benefits they derived from a short course of cancer counselling provided within a humanist framework. Three hundred and two clients who had attended at least one session of a short course of cancer counselling received an evaluation form, which incorporated both fixed-choice and open-ended questions. One hundred and forty two (47%) clients returned evaluation forms; those who had attended more sessions were significantly more likely to do so. Quantitative data were analysed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) for Windows and qualitative data using a thematic approach. Almost all clients indicated that they felt they had benefited from counselling. Analysis of the open-ended questions identified nine main benefits of counselling and four key avenues or processes through which clients derived these benefits. Overall, counselling was seen as helping them to work through powerful thoughts and feelings and so to come to terms with cancer and to regain a sense of control in their lives. The benefits of a short course of counselling which clients identified reflect the aims of humanistic counselling which are not well captured by psychiatric assessments or most standard research instruments. In evaluating cancer counselling services, assessments which include these client-defined outcomes may provide a more sensitive way of gauging the value of counselling to a non-clinic population.
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Different psychological interventions with cancer patients emphasise the importance of a unique and safe relationship of the client with someone who genuinely cares and sees, understands and accepts their experience.
“This is emphasised by different psychological interventions with cancer patients (Boulton et al.,2001; Carlson,2015; Krenz et al.,2014; MacCormack et al.,2001).”
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- Authors
- Boulton, M., Boudioni, M., Mossman, J., Moynihan, C., Leydon, G., & Ramirez, A.
- Affiliations
- Oxford Brookes University (GB)
- Institute of Cancer Research (GB)
- St Thomas' Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Boulton, Mary
- Venue
- Psycho-Oncology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2001-03
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 124-136
- ISSN
- 1057-9249 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-1611
- OpenAlex
- W1966721288
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psycho-Oncology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Keywords
- client satisfaction, humanistic counseling, coping with cancer, perceived control, psychological distress in cancer patients
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude to Health, Counseling, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Treatment Outcome
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