Jerome, H;
Smith, KV;
Shaw, EJ;
Szydlowski, S;
Barker, C;
Pistrang, N;
Thompson, EH;
(2018)
Effectiveness of a Cancer Bereavement Therapeutic Group.
Journal of Loss and Trauma
, 23
(7)
pp. 574-587.
10.1080/15325024.2018.1518772.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the effectiveness of a novel cancer bereavement group. METHOD: Twenty-seven participants attended a six-session cancer bereavement therapeutic group. Data were collected at baseline, intervention completion, and three-month follow-up. RESULTS: Grief intensity and symptoms of PTSD, depression and anxiety were reduced post-intervention, and self-compassion increased. At follow-up, improvement remained for grief, PTSD and depression. A small quasi-experimental waiting-list comparison group showed no change on any measure between baseline and waiting-list end. CONCLUSION: This study provides preliminary evidence that a brief therapeutic group is an effective intervention for cancer bereavement.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Effectiveness of a Cancer Bereavement Therapeutic Group |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15325024.2018.1518772 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2018.1518772 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | cancer, oncology, grief, bereavement,, therapeutic group |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10055243 |
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