Laura Pedrinelli Carrara

Coping with breast cancer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the moment you receive a diagnosis of cancer, life changes. At that moment, it is like a bolt from the blue. There are many states of mind that are lived, from fear to impotence, from anger to despair. Every woman, however, has a great vital force within herself that she brings out more than ever in critical moments and which helps her to overcome even such a hard and complex path.In this period of continuous checks, treatments and surgical procedures, women often find themselves having to make decisions, to make choices, exactly when they have to concentrate all their strength and thoughts on themselves.This book is based both on personal and professional experiences, which I had as a psychologist in the medical oncology, breast surgery and imaging breast diagnostic units. It has been conceived as a helping support for women who must undergo breast surgery or have already undergone it, to obtain some practical and psychological suggestions for dealing better with the surgical-medical path. Reading this text will be useful also to relatives and friends, who often do not know how to react and who feel much more powerless than the woman herself does.The covered topics concern:Packing the bag for the hospitalization, with the specific tricks foreseen for the breast surgical intervention.An overview on the main therapies and some useful precautions to reduce the symptoms of the therapies (chemo, radiotherapy, hormone therapy) or to better live with them (pieces of information about wigs and turbans, etc.; the targeted use of makeup). Psychological suggestion regarding the relationship with one's children, relatives and friends. Suggestions to relatives and friends on how to behave with a breast-operated woman. The basic rules to find psychological wellness. Effective communication techniques. Stress management. A mention of civil and work rights for cancer patients.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Babelcube Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781547543199
• Artikelnr.: 54583387

Autorenporträt

Laura Pedrinelli Carrara is an Italian Psychologistsand specializes in Psychotherapy. She is formed in Psychology Oncology and Organic disorders Serious, inSexology, in Psychology of Well-being according to the Mind-Body model, and in the use of design in Psychotherapy. She collaborated from 2005 to 2013 with the Hospital of Senigallia (An), in the departments of Medical Oncology, Breast Diagnostics and Breast Surgery. In this respect, in 2012 shepublished an articleon motivation to breast imaging screening and cervix in the Italian Journal of Psycho-Oncology edited by CIC International Editions. She was responsible from 2007 to 2013, to the nursing home for the elderly Senigallia, psychosocial and cognitive rehabilitation through professional entertainment activities. For more than ten years, in addition to the psychological and psychotherapeutic clinical work, also it performs training in the field of labor and social health by working with private companies and non-profit associations. In 2013 she published the book"Entertainment activities with the elderly. To stimulate cognitive abilities and social relationships in old age" EricksonEdition, an handbook containing specific activities to solicit and maintain mental abilities and the elderly relational member who lives in the home or structure. In 2015 she published thebook"A mind active. Paths of cognitive stimulation for the elderly." Erickson editionsandshe published thebook "Four Steps to love yourself". Techniques to improve the psychological well-being "with Streetlib and Amazon. In 2017 she published the book " Coping with breast cancer. Practical and psychological advice from intervention to therapies with Streetlib and Amazon. Since 2017 to today she writes articles of sexology forThe ItalianJournal of Fibromyalgia. In 2018 she published "Allenamento cognitivo a circuito" Erickson editions andshe was interviewed by themagazine BenEssere Edi