2014, Number 2
Thanatology manual: psychological intervention for patients with degenerative chronic disabilities
Frausto CL, Medina PIV, González RCL
Language: Spanish
References: 0
Page: 552-566
PDF size: 678.67 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Objective: Design a manual of Thanatology focused in apsychological intervention for therapeutic work of loss and grief, in children and teenagers diagnosed with degenerative chronic disability, created for psychologists who provides care to them and their family, expecting to get more tools and strategies to address the process. Method: Design strategies based on literature review and clinical experience with a methodological approach on humanistic psychology and positivist. Type of research: descriptive and projective. Results: Development of a psychological intervention manual containing the description and development of strategies to apply psychotherapeutic intervention in individual and/or group, divided into two main parts: strategies for working with children and adolescents, and strategies for working with primary caregivers and family. Conclusions: The creation of this manual is to make a proposal on the management of grief in the area of disability, rescuing the human side of psychotherapeutic intervention with patients and their families, considering the areas of development of a person to favor emotional development and healthy detachment to the various processes of loss and grieving.