Category Archive for: "thanatology"

Religious coping and behavioral disengagement: opposing influences on advance care planning and receipt of intensive care near death

July 15, 2019 coping, thanatology

Objective: This study examines the relationships between methods of coping with advanced cancer, completion of advance care directives, and receipt of intensive, life-prolonging care near death. [...]
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Case Study of a Chaplain’s Spiritual Care for a Patient with Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer

January 21, 2019 oncology, palliative care, thanatology

The case study seeks to describe an oncology chaplain’s pastoral relationship with a 64-year-old woman with advanced metastatic breast cancer. The patient’s distress was complicated [...]
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