Religious coping and cancer: Proposing an acceptance and commitment therapy approach

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 371-381

  Karekla, Maria ^a   Constantinou, Marios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychology   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASTECTOMY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUAL CARE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77956192050     PISSN: 10777229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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