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Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully provides valuable insight into the experience of patients and families living with advanced cancer and describes a novel psychotherapeutic approach to help them live meaningfully, while also facing the threat of mortality. Situated in the context of early palliative care, this text is destined to be become essential reading for healthcare professionals engaged in providing psychological support to patients and their families who face the practical and profound problems of advanced disease.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: CALM Foundations
- Chapter 1: The Meaning of Mortality in Modern Life
- Chapter 2: The Management of Terror
- Chapter 3: One Thousand Lives: The Work that Influenced CALM
- Chapter 4: Attachment Security
- Chapter 5: Mentalization and Mortality
- Chapter 6: Treatment Decisions and the Therapeutic Process
- Chapter 7: CALM and the Desire for Death
- Chapter 8: The Pearl in the Oyster: Posttraumatic Growth
- Chapter 9: The Context of CALM
- Chapter 10: Measuring Process and Outcome in CALM
- Chapter 11: The Experience of CALM Training
- Chapter 12: From Our Clinic, Across the Globe: CALM Training, Research, and Advocacy
- Part II: The CALM Treatment Manual
- Chapter 13: Rationale, Foundations, and Goals of CALM
- Chapter 14: The Structure and Process of CALM
- Chapter 15: The CALM Domains
- Chapter 16: Utilizing Measures in Clinical Practice and Supervision
- Chapter 17: CALM Therapy Cases
- Epilogue
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E
- Appendix F
- Appendix G
- Appendix H
- Appendix I
About the author
Gary Rodin, MD, is a University of Toronto/University Health Network Chair in Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Director of the Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and End-of-Life Care (GIPPEC), and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He leads a clinical and research program on the psychosocial dimensions of advanced disease and on the development and evaluation of novel interventions to improve the quality of life and the quality of dying and death in this population.
Sarah Hales, MD, is a psychiatrist and researcher in the Division of Psychosocial Oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network in Toronto and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Her clinical and research interests include the end of life experience as it affects both patients and their family members, and psychotherapeutic interventions aimed at alleviating distress in those facing advanced disease.
