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- Title
Metacognitive Therapy for Emotional Distress in Adult Cancer Survivors: A Case Series.
- Authors
Fisher, Peter; Byrne, Angela; Salmon, Peter
- Abstract
Many adult cancer survivors experience persistent emotional distress after completing cancer treatment. The aim of this study was to test the potential of a brief transdiagnostic psychological intervention-metacognitive therapy (MCT)-in reducing emotional distress in adult cancer survivors. A non-concurrent multiple baseline design with 3- and 6-months follow-up was used to evaluate the effects of MCT in four patients consecutively referred to a psycho-oncology service. Each patient received six 1-h sessions of MCT. Anxiety, depression, worry/rumination, fear of cancer recurrence and metacognitive beliefs were assessed using self-report questionnaires. MCT was associated with clinically significant reductions in anxiety, depression, fear of cancer recurrence, worry/rumination and metacognitive beliefs at the end of treatment, and gains were maintained in all patients to 3-months follow-up and in three out of four patients to 6-months follow-up. MCT is a promising brief transdiagnostic approach to psychological morbidity in adult survivors of cancer. Larger scale controlled trials are now required.
- Subjects
CANCER patients; CANCER treatment; METACOGNITION; COGNITIVE therapy; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
- Publication
Cognitive Therapy & Research, 2017, Vol 41, Issue 6, p891
- ISSN
0147-5916
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10608-017-9862-9