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How can we help chronic patients not to abandon hope?
Author(s) -
Dörner Klaus
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
edtna‐erca journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1755-6686
pISSN - 1019-083X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2000.tb00084.x
Subject(s) - grief , interpersonal relationship , medicine , psychotherapist , psychology , nursing , psychoanalysis , social psychology
Summary Patients with kidney disease need appropriate psychological care. Complete assessment of the patient must take place and an active part played by doctors and nurses. These patients require companionship for their despair to gradually turn into grief and for some eventual sense to be made of their situation.