Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Palliat Support Care. 2022 Oct;20(5):754-756. doi: 10.1017/S1478951522001109.
This report describes a case of concurrent engagement in Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) and Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Caregivers (MCP-C), brief, structured interventions designed to address existential distress in patients with cancer and cancer caregivers.
Descriptions of the independent courses of MCP/MCP-C treatment for a patient with Glioblastoma Multiforme and his caregiver are provided with both unique and shared themes around sources of meaning highlighted.
The patient and caregiver each experienced enhanced well-being as a result of receiving MCP and MCP-C, as well as shared benefits of deepened connectedness. Engagement in MCP/MCP-C had important implications for their experience of the patient's end-of-life and the caregiver's bereavement.
MCP and MCP-C are interventions typically delivered independently to patients and caregivers. The individual and shared benefits derived from MCP/MCP-C by this patient and caregiver point to the potential benefits of concurrent engagement and the need for future dyadic research on MCP/MCP-C.
本报告描述了一例同时接受意义中心心理疗法（MCP）和意义中心心理疗法关爱者版（MCP-C）的情况，这两种疗法均为简短、结构化的干预措施，旨在解决癌症患者和癌症照护者的存在性困扰。
提供了一名胶质母细胞瘤患者及其照护者分别接受 MCP/MCP-C 治疗的独立过程描述，强调了突显意义来源的独特和共同主题。
患者和照护者都因接受 MCP 和 MCP-C 而体验到了更高的幸福感，并且还加深了彼此之间的联系。参与 MCP/MCP-C 对他们对患者临终和照护者丧亲的体验产生了重要影响。
MCP 和 MCP-C 通常分别为患者和照护者提供的干预措施。该患者和照护者从 MCP/MCP-C 中获得的个体和共同益处表明，同时参与的潜在益处以及对 MCP/MCP-C 的未来对偶研究的需求。
