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The Death of a Spouse: Using Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Cope

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This article discusses a personal experience of the death of a spouse. Examples of how rational emotive and cognitive behavior therapy assisted and failed in helping to cope with the diagnosis of a terminal illness, the treatment phase, and following death are addressed.

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    Kristene A. Doyle

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Doyle, K.A. The Death of a Spouse: Using Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Cope. J Rat-Emo Cognitive-Behav Ther 31, 108–113 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-013-0162-3

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