Aspects
The appearance of a family illness involves some changes and these in turn, involves the generation of new family needs, needs that naturally going to be changing throughout its life cycle.
The psycho-oncology is provided the following objectives:
- Conduct a comprehensive care that takes into account aspects: physical, emotional, social and spiritual, which inevitably will lead to attention to both individual and family and society.
- The patient and family are the unit to be treated: emotional support and communication with the patient, family and treatment team must be through a frank and honest.
- Promoting autonomy and dignity of the patient with the sense of preserving and restoring all abilities, both practical and emotional and relational patients.
- Active therapeutic concept: incorporating a rehabilitative attitude towards the patient's full recovery.
- Importance of the environment, atmosphere of respect, comfort, support and communication have a decisive influence in controlling symptoms.
Early studies of psychological adjustment to cancer addressed issues of communication and management of guilt (Abrams, 1953; General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, 1950). Almost simultaneously, Arthur Sutherland in 1952 established the first unit of psychiatry oncology at the Cancer Center Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSKCC) in New York, it has evolved to the modern Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Psycho-Oncology is a journal published by John Wiley & Sons which contains articles related to research in the field of psycho-oncology.
There is an international society, the International Psycho-Oncology Society, that is "dedicated to fostering the science of psychosocial and behavioral oncology and improving the care of cancer patients and their families throughout the world".
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