Abstract:
The issue of psychological assistance strategies, which must be implemented to respond to the needs of the oncological patient, represents a relevant interest in medical psychology. The paper focuses on the area of emotional and psychological needs of the cancer patient, in the advanced stage of the disease, as precisely these types of needs are the most present in this phase and the most difficult to satisfy against the background of the difficulties to express and recognize them, for that it does not manifest itself through specific and clear bodily sensations, detected by clinical parameters or laboratory analyses. Therefore, as future psychologists, it is important to identify these needs and try to fulfill them, because they affect the quality of life and the physical condition of the person, also resulting from the fact that man is a complex system, which is why it must be treated through a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual approach, to take care of him in a holistic manner. And since the human being is a set of complex processes, which gives us the self-understanding that we cannot focus only on the pathological and biological aspects, it is necessary to concern ourselves with the person and not only with the disease.
