Cognitive Counseling and Mindfulness Training for Cancer Patients
Keywords:
cancer patients, cognitive counseling, mindfulness trainingAbstract
Cancer is considered the number one cause of the deaths of the Thai population from the past to the present and there is still a tendency to increase steadily continuously from the changing environment and social factors. Many cancer patients have difficulty adjusting to distressing situations, such as treatment or side effects from medications used to treat them. Anxiety symptoms depression, stress, loss of function and fear of cancer recurrence, difficulty adjusting, accepting having cancer and dealing with disease. It may cause you to lose meaning in life. If the patient experiences stress and anxiety. It will affect the quality of life in terms of physical, emotional, mental and social aspects. Therefore, using the cognitive counseling theory, the goal is to enable patients to identify and examine their own negative thoughts. Leads to a restructuring of thought towards appropriate thinking. and combined with mindfulness training to enhance positive emotions make cancer patients have peace of mind, relieve stress, reduce anxiety, distress, fear, depression and other discomforts from disease and side effects from treatment, including reduced distorted thoughts and negative emotions. Therefore, cognitive counseling and mindfulness training will help foster self-acceptance, knowledge and understanding arise. Able to adapt to disease and maintain a good quality of life.
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