Considering the physical and emotional status, patients with cancer diagnoses require both physical and psycho-emotional care. Each person reacts to stressful situations individually. It depends on age, gender, personal characteristics, social status, and psychological defense mechanisms. If after the completion of treatment, the patient’s emotional status prevents participation in physical and social activities and thus affects his/her quality of life, there is a clear indication of the need of psychological support.
The goal of psychological support is to provide emotional, semantic, and existential support to the patient and his/her family members in a crisis caused by a cancer diagnosis. Support aims to help the patient accept the disease, adapt to it, and develop an appropriate behavioral model that results in the patient’s improved quality of life.
Achieved results: enhanced self-confidence, coping with disease, the feeling of being able to control the situation, taking responsibility for own health, development of the mechanisms for establishing effective communication, and coping with different challenges of treatment.
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