Perceived benefits and psychosocial outcomes of a brief existential family intervention for cancer patients/survivors

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 243-268

  Garlan, Robert ^a   Butler, Lisa ^b   Rosenbaum, Ernest ^c   Siegel, Alison ^c   Spiegel, David ^d  

^a State University of New York ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EXISTENTIALISM; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; VIDEORECORDING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EXISTENTIALISM; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551658828     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.62.3.c     Document Type: Article

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