Means to Meaning in Cancer-Related Bereavement: Identifying Clinical Implications for Counseling Psychologists
Means to Meaning in Cancer-Related Bereavement: Identifying Clinical Implications for Counseling Psychologists
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DOI：
10.1177/0011000012459969
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Cohen, S. Robin
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作者：
MacKinnon, Christopher J.;Milman, Evgenia;Cohen, S. Robin
在丧亲之痛中寻找意义是一个越来越引起学术兴趣的话题。尽管如此，文献尚未出现，探讨不同的意义理论，相应的实证研究结果，并在癌症相关的丧亲心理治疗咨询心理学家的临床意义的交叉点。从几个领域的学术，包括存在主义，灵性，压力和丧亲之痛的意义理论进行了调查，然后在奖学金的相关经验趋势的审查。一个假设的情况下，小插曲，然后提出了突出潜在的策略，为咨询心理学家整合一个扩大的意义为基础的方法，丧亲心理治疗有关失去亲人的癌症。文章最后指出了意义为基础的方法的局限性，以及进一步研究的方向。
The search for meaning in bereavement is a topic of increasing scholarly interest. Nonetheless, literature has not yet appeared that examines the intersections of diverse theories of meaning, corresponding empirical findings, and clinical implications for counseling psychologists engaged in cancer-related bereavement psychotherapy. Meaning theories drawn from several domains of scholarship including existential, spirituality, stress, and bereavement are surveyed followed by a review of related empirical trends in the scholarship. A hypothetical case vignette is then presented to highlight potential strategies for counseling psychologists to integrate a broadened meaning-based approach to bereavement psychotherapy related to the loss of a loved one from cancer. The article concludes by identifying limitations of a meaning-based approach, as well as directions for further research.