Cognitive-behavioral therapy for cancer patients. Muri S., Grire S.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (KPT) is a short, focused method, promising to provide considerable assistance to those who are sick with cancer. This edition clearly shows how psychological interventions that are carried out by a psychotherapist by KPT means for coping with patient distress can be adapted to difficult clinical conditions of cancer and palliative treatment. Applying the KPT model to understand the reactions to cancer, the authors of this publication submit cognitive, behavioral, emotional and interpersonal methods to the court of readers that help people adapt to threats that cancer carries their survival and personality. Numerous examples of specific cases of the application of such methods given in this publication clearly show how to use their help the level of anxiety and depression, give patients the opportunity to show martial spirit, learn the effective skills of coping with distress related to the disease, and also develop the habit of an open Communication with their partners. In the present, updated publication, the results of many clinical and scientific research are discussed in the fields of psycho-oncology and cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as practical recommendations on the use of KPT for working with such common symptoms as insomnia, fatigue and nausea.