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Social Work Involves In Psychological Stress Relieving Of Caregivers Of Patients With Terminal Cancer

Posted on:2017-03-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H F ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2297330503979581Subject:Social work
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Nowadays, the number of cancer patients is increasing year by year in our country, and cancer incidence and mortality are staying at a high level. People often became jittery at the mention of the cancer, and they are fearful of it. Cancer patients themselves are not only bearing the pain of body, but also sustaining heavy psychological burden. At the same time, as the primary caregivers of cancer patients’ families, they are also under tremendous psychological pressure. Their pressure often comes from worrying about loved ones the fear of death at any moment. And they avert mention the death topic, in order to avoid to cause added stress to patients and suppress their emotions. They cost a long period of time to compare patients and ignore their own health. Therefore, it causes an agitated mood, and lack of remorse psychological care skills. These series of factors, which makes cancer patients at the end of the caregivers, who are under a lot of psychological pressure, so it leads to depression, anxiety, irritability and other adverse emotional responses. In the past, people always pay attention to cancer patients, and ignore their main caregivers’ families. But they also need attention from all walks of life, especially the help from the professional social workers.This paper mainly research on the problem of the caregivers psychological stress relieving in which cancer patients at the end of life. The investigation, on the basis of the causes cancer patient’s caregivers psychological pressure performance, suit the remedy to the case, using the concept of professional social work. According to social support theory and art force theory, it mainly use team work methods, with breaking ice to know each other, emotional poison, relaxation training, nursing skill sharing, life and death two experiencing and leave message as the main line. Then, this paper carries out team works of six times, and to relieve the caregivers’ psychological pressure when cancer patients at the end of life.Through the summary evaluation of team work, the author found that caregivers effectively relieve psychological pressure when cancer patient at the end of life through group activities. The group activities have clear target and high pertinence. By carrying out the theme of psychological stress relieve group activities, the author attempts to help the caregivers when cancer patients at the end of life to release pressure, relax the mood, form the correct cognition, then become more positively in the face of cancer patients and future life. On the meanwhile, it also provides some suggestions and reference for the caregivers’ psychological stress relieving work when cancer patients at the end of life in the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:Caregivers of patients with terminal cancer, Psychological stress relieving, Social work
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