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Descriptor English: Dignity Therapy
Descriptor Spanish: Terapia de la Dignidad
Descriptor terapia de la dignidad
Entry term(s) psicoterapia de la dignidad
Scope note: Modalidad psicoterapéutica basada en los datos para pacientes designados como enfermos terminales. Estos pacientes pueden presentar pérdida de autonomía, dolor físico intenso y una experiencia existencial y espiritual complicada que contribuyen a la desintegración de la conciencia de sí mismo del paciente.
Descriptor Portuguese: Terapia da Dignidade
Descriptor French: Without translation
Entry term(s): Dignity Psychotherapies
Dignity Psychotherapy
Dignity Therapies
Psychotherapies, Dignity
Psychotherapy, Dignity
Therapies, Dignity
Therapy, Dignity
Tree number(s): F04.754.286
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000096225
Scope note: Evidence-based psychotherapeutic modality for patients who are classified as terminally ill. Such patients may have loss of autonomy, severe physical pain, and challenging existential and spiritual experience, which contribute to disintegration of patient's sense of self.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Psychotherapy (2015-2023)
Public MeSH Note: 2024
History Note: 2024
DeCS ID: 60473
Unique ID: D000096225
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Date Established: 2024/01/01
Date of Entry: 2023/07/26
Revision Date: 2023/06/01
Dignity Therapy - Preferred
Concept UI M000761875
Scope note Evidence-based psychotherapeutic modality for patients who are classified as terminally ill. Such patients may have loss of autonomy, severe physical pain, and challenging existential and spiritual experience, which contribute to disintegration of patient's sense of self.
Preferred term Dignity Therapy
Entry term(s) Dignity Psychotherapies
Dignity Psychotherapy
Dignity Therapies
Psychotherapies, Dignity
Psychotherapy, Dignity
Therapies, Dignity
Therapy, Dignity



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