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20 Psychology and Psychosocial Issues in Children with Cancer

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The following summary of specific problems and requirements that may confront the patients and their families over the course of the illness can therefore only offer a basic orientation. This also applies to possible reactions and suggested psychosocial interventions.

20.4.1 Before Diagnosis

20.4.1.1 Problems

Undiagnosed, possibly painful, and disabling symptoms

Unfamiliar examinations

Foreboding

Waiting for diagnosis

20.4.1.2 Requirements

Ability to tolerate the lack of uncertainty

Cooperation in diagnostic examinations

Appropriate dialogue within the family

20.4.1.3

Reactions

Fear, insecurity, confusion

Parents’ efforts to shield the children from their own concerns

20.4.1.4

Interventions

Orientation aids: emotional, organizational, informative

20.4.2 After Diagnosis

20.4.2.1 Problems

Existential assault on the family’s world

Certainty of life-threatening disease

Confrontation with the prognosis and the impending therapy

20.4.2.2Requirements

Emotional control

Engagement with diagnosis, therapy, side effects, and prognosis

Ability to absorb and process important information

Adaptation of family life to the new situation

Informing friends, school, employer, etc.

20.4.2.3Reactions

Being flooded with feelings of shock, fear of death, impotence, helplessness, loss of control, anger, guilt, blame

Denial

Desire to run away

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