Difficult situations in palliative care – an opportunity of psychological help

Dorota Gołąb

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Psychoonkologia

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Difficult situations in palliative care – an opportunity of psychological help

Dorota Gołąb

Psychoonkologia 2013, 4: 151–155

Online publish date: 2014/04/22

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When we have a daily contact with patients suffering from incurable diseases we face helplessness in the last phase of their lives. Patients, their families and medical staff especially workers of the palliative ward are often exposed to existencial questions. This work is an attempt to consider the role of a psychologist working with the patients and people taking care of them i.e. family members and hospital staff.

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Difficult situations in palliative care – an opportunity of psychological help

Dorota Gołąb

helplessness, death, life philosophy