Knowing and Managing the Emotions of the Patient, the Family Caregiver and the Operator

By: Laura Pedrinelli Carrara and Mihaiela Corsatea

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Synopsis: The book is a real handbook that helps the operator, the family caregiver and the sick person to understand their own emotional dynamics and the others’ and know how to manage them. The book includes five chapters: The first one deals with the knowledge of the emotional aspects in order to learn to understand the emotions of the others and recognize your own, starting from deepening your knowledge about the physiological and psychological aspects (inner experiences, conscious and unconscious, cognitive processing and changes of behavior) of your emotions. The second chapter focuses on understanding the emotional moods, in order to understand when you are getting angry, when you are happy or why you are feeling embarrassed, and which is the purpose of that emotion, even when it creates discomfort. In the third chapter there are specifically analyzed the emotions linked to the experiences of the patient, the family caregiver and the operator, while focusing on the physiological and psychological reactions. The fourth chapter assesses the unpleasant emotions, including the stages of grief, while being offered practical tips to manage them at the psycho-relational and psychological level. The fifth and final chapter contains a number of psychosomatic and Art-Therapy exercises for the release of emotions and for the emotional balancing. Through these exercises, the person will be helped to deal with stress and uncomfortable emotions.