Survivor guilt in cancer patients: a pastoral perspective.
Defines survivor guilt and relates it to cancer patients' issues of meaning-making, feelings of responsibility, and need for restitution. Notes the spiritual dimension of survivor guilt and indicates ways in which pastoral caregivers might serve as both learners and as spiritual guides in meeting these existential factors implicit in survivor guilt phenomena.
Maxwell
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Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75246.
Aldredge-Clanton
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D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000379:methods*; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States