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Higher levels of optimism were associated with less avoidant coping strategies in a sample of individuals with advanced-stage cancer diagnoses (Sumpio, Jeon, Northouse, & Knobf, 2017), and optimism was found to indirectly influence greater quality of life and lower overall distress in cancer patients via adaptive coping strategies (Carver et al., 1993; Friedman et al., 2006).
- Understanding and Addressing the Role of Coping in Palliative ...
For example, among patients with advanced breast cancer,...
- Understanding and Addressing the Role of Coping in Palliative ...
- Ten Steps Toward Emotional Well-Being
- One Patient’S Way of Coping
- Feeling Right When Things Go Wrong: Beliefs I Use to Help Me to Stay Alive
Coping refers to the attitudes and behaviors that you use to maintain your emotional well-being and to adjust to the stresses caused by cancer. Different people cope in different ways, and some ways of coping are more successful in promoting a person’s emotional well-being and psychological adjustment than others. Currently, you might be coping wit...
Diane Behar
I have been treated with chemotherapy for more than six years and am now on my fifty-fifth course. My current treatment is an experimental infusion that lasts fifteen days each month. Almost immediately, I experience a nearly imperceptible ebbing away of my physical stamina and soon I prefer to walk rather than run, take an escalator instead of the stairs, and sit down rather than stand. My life moves into slow motion. I gradually witness a change in my personality and the way I react to peop...
Survival
When it comes to the possibility of loss of one’s life, we have a sense of shock, with feelings of isolation and fear. We may notice feelings of being “out of control.” I found that it helped me to notice my feelings of sadness, fear, and anger as soon as possible, and give myself permission to feel disappointment directly. I feel less defensive sooner when I can do this. For example, I have fewer blaming thoughts and use less denial when I can acknowledge my emotional pain. Almost as soon as...
Values
When our survival appears to be threatened, some of our basic beliefs in life seem out of line with the new reality. “How could God let this happen to me? I’ve lived a good, clean life. What is true? I feel deceived! The meaning in life seems to have shifted!” Albert Ellis, PhD, addresses this major issue with his rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT). Some ideas are comforting; others challenge us to shift our thoughts to more inclusive humanitarian viewpoints. Here are those that I fou...
on coping with cancer by highlighting ten coping strategies that we believe may help you. We also have drawn upon the experiences of the many patients we have cared for over the years. Ten Coping Strategies “Coping strategies” reflect the process of coping and the ways of meeting goals and challenges. When you are dealing with
Mar 3, 2020 · For example, among patients with advanced breast cancer, engagement coping (eg, active coping, planning, seeking support, positive reframing) and self-efficacy for coping with cancer seem to moderate the effects of symptom stress and distress on QOL. 40,41 That is, the negative correlations of symptom stress and distress with QOL seem to be mitigated in patients with advanced breast cancer who ...
- Joseph A Greer, Allison J Applebaum, Juliet C Jacobsen, Jennifer S Temel, Vicki A Jackson
- 10.1200/JCO.19.00013
- 2020
- J Clin Oncol. 2020 Mar 20; 38(9): 915-925.
In addition, ACS support programs reach cancer survivors and patients throughout the United States. Practical advice is available to help people manage day-to-day and cope with physical and emotional changes. For more information and support, call our National Cancer Information Center toll-free number, 1-800-227-2345. We’re here when you ...
Mar 24, 2024 · Nurturing hope among patients with cancer and their caregivers is possible and includes coping strategies focusing on what can be done (such as control of symptoms) and exploring realistic goals ...
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Aug 8, 2024 · Findings In this randomized clinical trial of 144 patients with advanced cancer, those randomized to the EPC intervention group experienced better quality of life at 18 months, but not at 12 or 24 months, compared with the control group. Patients in the intervention group reported lower existential burden and enhanced coping skills compared ...
