Добавил:
Upload Опубликованный материал нарушает ваши авторские права? Сообщите нам.
Вуз: Предмет: Файл:
Pediatric_Oncology_A_Comprehensive_Guide.pdf
Скачиваний:
29
Добавлен:
10.02.2016
Размер:
2 Мб
Скачать
☆

20 Psychology and Psychosocial Issues in Children with Cancer

231

 

 

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

Соседние файлы в предмете [НЕСОРТИРОВАННОЕ]