Tecniche d'intervento psicologico con pazienti in età evolutiva affetti da malattie organiche gravi; una rassegna degli studi empirici sull'efficacia

In the last twenty years, psychological interventions by different health workers have spread in paediatric hospitals. More recently, the psychological and medical trend towards evidence based intervention models has induced the need to define models and interventions in the area of psychological distress. In this paper, we discuss the main areas of research within serious paediatric illness and present a review of the empirical studies on the effectiveness of psychological interventions published in the last thirty years. This review shows that the effectiveness of psychological interventions in serious paediatric illness is still quite poor: some cognitive-behavior approaches have proved partially effective, while the results of individual psychodynamic therapy are still uncertain. Moreover, most studies suffer from many methodological limits, and the large variability in the way studies are performed and documented makes comparison between them very difficult

In questo lavoro sono esaminate le principali aree di ricerca nell'ambito della malattia grave in età evolutiva ed è presentata una raccolta della letteratura empirica sull'efficacia degli interventi psicologici nella malattia grave pediatrica nehli ultimi trent'anni