Group Therapy for Cancer Patients: A Research-Based Handbook of Psychosocial Care

by David Spiegel and Catherine Classen

Book Overview

This extraordinary resource celebrates and expands on Dr. David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings. Spiegel and Classen introduce mental health professionals to the awareness as well as the tools they will need to facilitate groups coping with existential crises. The result is a model for helping that actually helps.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465095658
• ISBN13: 9780465095650
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"