Pediatric Psychooncology: Current status and future lines of development

Abstract

Participation of Pediatric Psychooncology is necessary to cope with diagnostic and oncological treatment, when is recognize the emotional disorders associated to the cancer. Depend of different stage of disease, remission, rehabilitation or free disease. The child with cancer was recovering, among the 60 or 70%. When a child is hospitalized, he presents a psychological disorder. When is communicate the diagnosis change the style of life and dynamic previous; two, the adjustment to take hospitalize coping whit the death (thru or symbolic), change the familiar relationship, the friends and activity social (school and work), provide the loss of control, increment the anxiety, confusion and uncertainty; three, the treatment to the child is surgery, radiotherapy or quimiotherapy. These conditions caused a behavioral and emotional disorders in the patient; as regression behavior, intolerant, angry, aggressive, increase of maternal dependence, fantasy, depression adjustment disorders whit the loss suffer the child.