Operationalizing dignity therapy for adolescents

Dignity Therapy (DT) is a brief, individualized intervention, which provides terminally ill patients with an opportunity to convey memories and essential disclosures that culminate in a legacy document. DT often broaches psychosocial and existential issues, hence bolstering a sense of meaning and purpose (Chochinov et al., 2005). During DT, trained therapists guide a psychotherapeutic session based on a framework of questions developed from key tenets of the Dignity Model (Chochinov et al., 2002). DT is presently well established in adult populations, but its application to younger people has received little attention (Rodriguez et al., 2018; Julião et al., 2020). To address this gap, Julião and colleagues adapted the Portuguese DT question framework to make it applicable to adolescents (ages 10–18) (Julião et al., 2020).

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http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44902

Citação

Palliat Support Care. 2020 Jul 30:1-6

Editora

Cambridge University Press

DOI

10.1017/S1478951520000589

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FM - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais

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