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Objective: To demonstrate the efficacy of a 12-week, professionally-facilitated, Internet-based support group for women who are sexually distressed due to gynaecologic cancer and its treatment. Methods: The participants are women who received treatment for gynaecologic cancer, were diagnosed within the previous five years and who currently have no...
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... primary aim of this mixed methods study is to demonstrate that a professionally facilitated, information-rich, online support group (GyneGals) is beneficial for women who are sexually distressed subsequent to gynecologic cancer and the side effects of treatment. We will also investigate mediators and moderators of treatment outcome (Figure 1). We will recruit 520 participants through oncology centres in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta and in the state of New York, USA. ...
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... Preliminary findings suggest that women feel comfortable discussing their sexuality online and that it improves body image, reduces distress, and enhances well-being (Wiljer et al. 2011;Classen et al. 2013). A full-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) is underway to demonstrate the efficacy of this intervention (Classen et al. 2015). Women are eligible if they have completed treatment for gynecologic cancer, are disease free for at least three months, are no more than five years post-diagnosis, and meet the clinical cut-off for psychosexual distress based on the Female Sexual Distress Scale-Revised (Derogatis et al. 2008). ...
GyneGals is based on the principles of supportive‐expressive group therapy; it encourages open and honest discussion of difficult topics and feelings, including discussion of existential concerns. This chapter focuses on Irvin Yalom's teaching, his process interventions, and his leadership style. Yalom's didactic teaching was extraordinary. Topics ranged from ways to illuminate unrecognized existential issues to interpersonal process work and dream work. But even more impactful was when he taught by example. That happened when Irv sensed the group had an unaddressed interpersonal issue. Yalom consistently embodied his values and principles in the supervision group. Meaning‐Centered Therapy is an existential therapeutic approach that is rooted in and expands on Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, which is a philosophical, phenomenological, and anthropological approach to psychotherapy. Through exploring the dialects and existential aspects of the human condition, people can find their similarities, as well as their unique meaning and purposes in life.
