Teoria e tecnica della consultazione psicologica clinica in ospedale con i genitori di bambini affetti da malattie organiche gravi : revisione della letteratura ed esperienze cliniche

In the last few years, psychological interventions on children affected by chronic illness and their parents gradually spread out in pediatric hospitals; these have been performed by members of hospital staff with different training, backgrounds and theoretical models. Orientation towards evidence based interventions and the need of using defined protocols, took us to revise models, theories and techniques of the above-mentioned interventions. Up to now psychological interventions in pediatric hospitals are different both in forms and cultural traditions. The literature review on psychological consultation in children affected by chronic illness and their parents has been developed in this study using databases. The aim was to identify the efficacy of these interventions starting from the analysis of common factors reported in different theoretical models, techniques and traditions and taking into consideration the clinical experience too.