Coping mechanisms of postmastectomy women. A group experience.
A treatment model using a randomly selected group of patients at various postmastectomy stages is discussed. Our hypothesis predicted that such a group would provide women with a much clearer and more positive understanding of their disease syntonic to each one's life style. At the end of this group therapy, we felt that we had established a self-therapy group, in which patients could sustain themselves and could readjust to new ways of living with their disease.
D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000379:methods*