2.4. Self-Confidence and Social Support
DISEASE
Patients were invited to participate in the activity called “sharing my fears”, which was aimed at representing their fears related to the disease and to identify social support as a coping mechanism when facing such fears. Patients used creative materials (colored clay and crayons) for modeling figures and drawing cartoons or artwork to represent their fears. Then, patients were asked to share their own experience of fear and its related negative consequences, such as social isolation. The therapist leads the patients through questions to identify how social support was helpful to them in facing their fears and to restructure their distorted ideas about such fears. Through this activity, the patient externalized the situation and elaborated on a new meaning for his/her cognitive beliefs. The activity finished after each patient shared their learning with the group [