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Spirituality and meaning in supportive care: spirituality- and meaning-centered group psychotherapy interventions in advanced cancer

Breitbart, William·2002·Supportive Care in Cancer
DOI 10.1007/s005200100289
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Existential and spiritual issues are at the frontier of new clinical and research focus in palliative and supportive care of cancer patients. As concepts of adequate supportive care expand beyond a focus on pain and physical symptom control, existential and spiritual issues such as meaning, hope and spirituality in general have received increased attention from supportive care clinicians and clinical researchers. This paper reviews the topics of spirituality and end-of-life care, defines spirituality, and suggests measures of spirituality that deal with two of its main components: faith/religious beliefs and meaning/spiritual well-being. These two constructs of spirituality are reviewed in terms of their role in supportive care. Finally, a review of existing psychotherapeutic interventions for spiritual suffering are reviewed and a novel meaning-centered group psychotherapy for advanced cancer patients is described.

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  • This process is related to improving patients' outcomes, managing chronic pain, or dealing with a diagnosis such as cancer.

    “This process is related to improving patients’ outcomes, manages chronic pain, or deals with a diagnostic as cancer (Breitbart, 2002; Vachon, 2008; Dedeli and Kaptan, 2013; Weber and Pargament, 2014; Bernard et al., 2017).”

    From Defining spirituality in healthcare: a systematic review and conceptual framework. (2021) · cites this paper as Breitbart, 2002

  • Spirituality can be considered a source of coping to handle crisis and stressful moments, and related to positive meanings in face of challenges, such as in health problems.

    “Spirituality can be considered a source of coping to handle crisis and stressful moments, and related to positive meanings in face of challenges, such as in health problems.”

    From Defining spirituality in healthcare: a systematic review and conceptual framework. (2021) · cites this paper as Breitbart, 2002

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Authors
Breitbart, W.
Affiliations
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
Corresponding author
Breitbart, William
ORCID
Breitbart, William
Venue
Supportive Care in Cancer
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2001-08-28
Volume
10
Issue
4
Pages
272-280
ISSN
  • 0941-4355 (ISSN-L)
  • 1433-7339
DOI
10.1007/s005200100289
OpenAlex
W2126226529
Cited by
466
References
74
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 23
FWCI
7.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Supportive Care in Cancer (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
Keywords
spirituality, meaning in life, spiritual well-being, advanced cancer, end-of-life care, supportive care, group therapy, meaning-centered therapy, spiritual distress, hope, palliative care
MeSH terms
Attitude to Health, Humans, Neoplasms, Palliative Care, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy, Group, Quality of Life, Religion and Medicine, Self Concept, Terminal Care

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