The importance of psychotherapeutic intervention in terminal illness and positive health outcomes: An overview

Pages: 1864-1867
Sisodia Devendra Singh and Vaiphei Suantak Demkhosei (Department of Psychology, Bhupal Nobles University, Udaipur, Rajasthan)

As a part of critical medicines in clinical practices, the existential psychotherapy is a holistic approach to care that emphasis on utilizing human capability in its therapeutic process. The existential psychotherapy begins, where the contemporary scientific medicines and its technologies becomes helpless in treating the terminal or incurable diseases in clinical setting. It is a modern humanistic therapeutic approach that emphasis on the importance of self-determination, maximum utilization of human potentiality, discovering ones meaning, and purpose, that gives dying patient a sense of hope to deal with existential stress, depression, anxiety, alienation, loneliness in the course of illness, when healing is not possible. The underlying concept of existential psychotherapy is to do what it can do for the well-being of the whole person, while acknowledging the human limitation. The aim of this particular study is to identify the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic intervention in terminal ill experience, and how it produce quality of life through its person center and meaning making psychotherapy. The method of the present study is a case study on 13 years old Female terminal ill patient and 45 years old Male HIV/AIDS patient, with an analytical study on the existing literatures and documents through literature review.