Patients

What to do when patients are performing treatment tasks

Often, although they know it would be important, patients do not perform therapeutic tasks, these resistances are attitudes, behaviors or cognitions that can delay or prevent therapeutic change. Some of these resistances are presented in the first evaluation phase, the client may question the proposed treatment by refusing to speak honestly, answering the therapist’s questions […]

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Invisible patients: other young people in the context of the disease

Adolescence usually coincides with a critical period and there is usually a dissociation between chronological age and the maturation process (physical and psychological) at that time. When this step is overcome, the age group between 18 and 25 years is called by some “emerging adulthood”. During this period, young people with chronic diseases enter the

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