Cancer Narratives and the Cancer Support Group
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4768643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyla Marie Yaskowich, H J Stam (0000-0002-2659-9248, University of Calgary) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 720-737 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13591053030086006 |
| PMID | 14670206 |
| OpenAlex | W2051063204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 26 |
We conceptualize the experience of cancer as requiring 'biographical work' and examine the nature of this work in the context of peer support groups. Interviews with participants and leaders of support groups were used to theorize the importance of support to cancer patients with varying stages and length of disease. Patient interviews led us to describe the process of joining, belonging, and identifying with, support groups as an important process within patients' ongoing biographical work and encompassing a search for a 'separate social space'. We discuss the implications for understanding the stigmatizing nature of cancer and the 'civic life' these groups support
Cancer · Context (archaeology · Disease · Narrative · Peer support · Psychiatry · Social group · Social support · Support group · Work (physics · Computer Science · Empathy and Medical Education · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology
Sharing stories
Vlogging Cancer Experiences After a Diagnosis
Living Through the Paschal Mystery
Exploring kidney patients’ experiences of receiving individual peer support
A Space for Suffering? Communicating Breast Cancer in an Online Self-Help Context
Application and Extension of the Alcohol Recovery Narratives Conceptual Framework
Positive Psychology Group Intervention for Breast Cancer Patients
A Nonheroic Cancer Narrative
Keep strong, remember everything you have learnt’
What do cancer support groups provide which other supportive relationships do not? The experience of peer support groups for people with cancer
Protecting the privacy of third-party information
A Narrative View of Art Therapy and Art Making by Women with Breast Cancer
Health psychology in autobiography
Expertise, advocacy and activism
The challenge of fitting in
Questing for Well-Being at Weight Watchers
The Meaning of Illness
Who talks? The social psychology of illness support groups.
The Wounded Storyteller
Alternative Interpretations
Grounded Theory Methodology
Narrative Identities and the Management of Personal Accountability in Talk about ME
Text, Context and Individual Meaning
A Narrative Approach to Health Psychology
Theorizing Health and Illness
Levels of Narrative Analysis in Health Psychology
Health Psychology and Discourse
Reshaping of self
Chronic illness as biographical disruption
Reneotiating identity
Doctor in the house
The aesthetics of illness
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |