Publicación:

Creación de guía para afrontamiento de duelo anticipado en familiares de niños con cáncer

Resumen

This guide has been prepared for those families of children with cancer (CA) in the terminal phase. It is intended to provide basic strategies for psychoeducational coping. Talking about death in society is not easy, it usually tends to deny this reality, as if it were a tragedy that occurs due to bad luck, misfortune or punishment, or simply this will not happen to me. When death is finally discussed, people tend to think that it happens because of: old age, illness or accidents. It never goes through the mind that a child may die (Ortiz 2010). The death of a child is one of the most painful experiences that exists not only for parents, it impacts their entire family and closest people. This event reverses, in some way, the natural order of life, in which parents expect to see their child grow to adulthood and not see him die. Understand that the emotional impact caused by the news of the possible or imminent death of a child, causes different reactions in each of the people involved, starting with the patient, parents, family, friends, among others; where it depends on each of the family members to assimilate the situation. According to Ortiz, (2010), the patient's family, faced with bad news, goes through a series of emotional reactions such as: aggressiveness, anger, anger, guilt, denial. They also have behaviors considered positive with sick children such as: excessive tolerance, extreme patience and attitudes of conformity in general. For there to be a balance in these reactions, it is very important that the family and the patient receive adequate psychological support.