Spiritual Values and Death Anxiety: Implications for Counseling With Terminal Cancer Patients.

Gibbs, Harriett Weidman; Achterberg-Lawlis, Jeanne

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Publication Date: 1978-Nov

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Spiritual Values and Death Anxiety: Implications for Counseling With Terminal Cancer Patients.

Gibbs, Harriett Weidman; Achterberg-Lawlis, Jeanne

Journal of Counseling Psychology, v25 n6 p563-69 Nov 1978

Results indicate cancer patients depend strongly on perceived strength of religious beliefs and values in coping with imminent death. Low fear of death was associated with previous experience with a dying person. Death anxiety scale score for cancer patients was significantly lower than for other populations. (Author/BEF)

Descriptors: Anxiety, Cancer, Coping, Counseling Effectiveness, Death, Patients, Religious Factors, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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