Why is psychological help important not only for a patient with cancer, but also for his relatives? Experience of the MCSC.

News 01/27/2020

One of the most important topics in the field of oncopsychology is family psychotherapy with the participation of a patient with cancer.

In the center for personalized medicine MCSC, we most often organize and conduct psychotherapy groups with a specific specialization:

• group psychotherapy with oncomammological orientation
• general oncological groups
• groups for relatives of cancer patients
• various other specialized groups

These are important areas of psychotherapeutic support, where we psychologically stabilize patients, help them accept the diagnosis of the disease, set them up for treatment and accompany them in the future. And we adapt the relatives of the patients to the understanding of the patients, their feelings, experiences, and also provide psychological support.

But in practice, sometimes there are questions of interaction between family members, close people and patients, which gives rise to a request for combined psychotherapy of all participants for settlement, mutual understanding and acceptance of each other.

In such cases, the therapist plays an important role as a necessary "regulator" and "adjuster" of the emotional balance in the family atmosphere, where personal and general distress not only affect the consolidation, but also sometimes divide their members. Which makes it necessary to participate and solve many of the rough edges and peculiarities of their relationship.

This is especially important when there are turning points in the life of a patient with cancer: familiarization with the diagnosis, its acceptance, preparation for surgery, conducting a course of chemotherapy, the postoperative period. This greatly affects the emotional balance of the patient and can not but affect the state of readiness to fight the disease and accept treatment, as well as the condition of loved ones.

In such a difficult situation, the help of a psychotherapist is simply necessary. It provides an opportunity for general consolidation in the fight against the disease, the creation of a favorable atmosphere in the family and the possibility not of existence, but of life in the future.

Do not neglect the opportunity for help and support from professionals!

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