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Implicaciones psicológicas de la enfermedad oncológica en la familia

Resumen

Psychooncology; Psychology specialty, offers support to patients diagnosed with cancer and their families, with the support of health professionals. This specialty helps to manage the changes that are generated during the course of the disease, working in social, family, emotional and spiritual areas. The psychological implications that the disease can produce both in the patient and in the family vary in each disease process; these psychological implications tend to destabilize family structures in aspects such as: economic, labor and health. Regarding the emotional, the family and the patient face situations of anxiety, stress, anguish, sadness, fear and frustration, therefore both have to cope with the recovery and healing processes together.