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Adjuvant Psychological Therapy with a Terminally III Patient: A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Maria J. H. Santos  and
Steven Greer
Maria J. H. Santos
Affiliation:
Cancer Research Campaign Psychological Medicine Group, Royal Marsden Hospital
Steven Greer
Affiliation:
Cancer Research Campaign Psychological Medicine Group, Royal Marsden Hospital
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Adjuvant Psychological Therapy (APT), a cognitive behavioural treatment, has been developed to alleviate cancer-related anxiety and depression. It is being evaluated in a controlled study of patients with early cancer, but has not been used previously in patients with terminal cancer. This case report describes the use of APT in a severely anxious and depressed male patient with terminal carcinoma of the colon. His psychological progress until death is reported. Although no firm conclusions can be drawn from a single case, the results obtained were sufficiently encouraging to warrant a systematic study of APT in emotionally distressed patients with terminal illness.

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Brief Clinical Reports
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 277 - 280
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1991

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