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Existential concerns in late stage cancer
European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2002In health care, it is generally acknowledged that individuals experiencing cancer illness and dying of cancer face a challenging time. Oncology and palliative care have responded by developing an expertise of treatment and care. The opportunity to receive the best of health care is accepted as an important concern to patients.
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Natural Disasters and Existential Concerns
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2012Existential anxiety is hypothesized to be a core human issue in a great deal of theoretical and philosophical writing. Fostering the empirical understanding of the expression of these concerns may be a valuable addition to the psychological literature on exposure to trauma.
Brandon G. Scott, Carl F. Weems
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Identifying existential concerns as an analytical tool: a response
Education for Primary Care, 2021Dear EditorI am writing in response to the article EPC 2020 31 no 2 180 ‘Identifying existential concerns as an analytical tool: an eye opener for the doctor.’This was an excellent article, and I c...
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Insecurity orientations: A person-centered approach to existential concerns
Personality and Individual Differences, 2021Abstract This research explores the ways in which psychological insecurities in three domains—the self, meaning, and relationships—are distributed intra-individually. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that certain profiles of insecurity are associated with sociocultural and personality indicators.
Isaac F. Young +3 more
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Existential Concern and Pastoral Counseling
Korean Journal of Christian Studies, 2016This study is to seek a possibility of cooperative relationship between existential psychotherapy and pastoral counseling. As existential psychotherapy, which stemmed from existentialism, a modern philosophical stream, views a person as free from psychological determinism, pastoral counseling believes in a possibility of personal liberation from the ...
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HIV-Related Psychotherapy and its Existential Concerns
Counselling Psychology Review, 1994This paper considers psychotherapy and counselling in order to highlight significant anxieties relating to the four existential concepts of Death, Isolation and Meaninglessness. It is the contention of the author that these anxieties are particularly relevant to psychotherapy when HIV is a consideration.The aim is achieved by means of an exploration of
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The salience of existential concerns across the cancer control continuum
Palliative and Supportive Care, 2012AbstractDespite significant improvement in cancer survival, the fear of death still remains rooted in individuals' beliefs about cancer. Existential fears pertaining to cancer cut across the cancer control continuum and taint decisions related to prevention, screening, surveillance, and follow-up recommendations, as well as the overall management of ...
Virginia, Lee, Carmen G, Loiselle
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Religious Orientation and Complexity of Thought about Existential Concerns
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1983Three aspects of Allport's original concept of mature religion appear to be omitted from his later, highly-popular concept of religion as an intrinsic end in itself. These aspects are (a) readiness to face existential questions without reducing their complexity, (b) perception of religious doubts as positive, and (c) openness to future change in one's ...
C. Daniel Batson, Lynn Raynor-Prince
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Existential Concerns in Families with Huntington's Disease
Theory & Psychology, 2009This article takes its point of departure from a qualitative study of the personal conduct of everyday life in Danish families at risk for Huntington's Disease (HD). The study focused on how awareness and understanding of the personal implications of HD arise in everyday life and among family members and how concrete life conditions and personal ...
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Ultimate Concerns from Existential and Positive Psychological Perspectives
2014Each individual is free, and inevitably responsible, to determine the parameters of his or her life, what is best to suffer for, connect with, choose, and believe. This chapter explores how two different traditions have examined such ultimate concerns of life. The existential perspective and the positive psychology perspective are evaluated with an eye
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