O PAPEL DA PSICOLOGIA NO CUIDADO PALIATIVO: reflexões acerca do luto

Abstract

Introduction: Palliative care is a philosophy of health care that prioritizes the sick individual and not his pathology, which includes physical, social, psychological, and spiritual factors. Objectives: Analyze the contributions of psychology regarding the coping of grief in palliative care. Method: It is an integrative literature review in the following databases: Virtual Health Library (VHL) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), with the descriptors psychology, palliative care and grief. Results: 13 articles were found that met the inclusion criteria and demonstrated the importance of psychology in the triad of care - the patient, team and family, on issues involving palliative care and terminality, as well as, presenting religiosity and spirituality as resources for coping with grief. Final considerations: The difficulties of patients, health professionals, and family members in the evolution of the terminality of life are evident, which makes the presence of psychology as a facilitating component of this insertion and the importance of developing more research on this theme as an instrument of scientific knowledge for the practice and interventions in education for death, quality of life, and finitude, a theme present in the content on palliative care, is perceived.