Using personality characteristics to individualize information to cancer patientG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
J BUON 13:415-20. 2008
..We agree with this view and that is one of the reasons why training workshops are being held at the Metaxa Cancer Hospital...
Informing the cancer patient and familyG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
J BUON 14:109-14. 2009
..Usually, doctors and nurses approach patient and family using their experience. Therefore, we need a training that will equip health professionals with the necessary knowledge to approach the family...
Informing cancer patient based on his type of personality: the arrogant (narcissistic) patientG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
J BUON 17:791-5. 2012
..Informing the family: The patient objects to a common approach with the family as he is concerned about inflicting a blow to his image...
Informing cancer patient in relation his type of personality: the emotional-hypothymic (depressive) patientG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Greece
J BUON 17:149-54. 2012
..There is a discordance between what the patient shows and what the family reports about him, especially when the compensation mechanism is that of a controlling - orderly patient...
Informing cancer patient in relation to his type of personality: the emotional-hyperthymic (dramatizing) patientG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
J BUON 16:765-70. 2011
..A discordance was evident between what the patient showed and what the family reported about him. The patient presented himself as courageous and extrovert, but the relatives considered him as faint-hearted...
Using the denial mechanism to inform the cancer patientG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
J BUON 13:559-63. 2008
..Therefore, the concepts of the denial mechanism should be the subject of training. The best way to understand the denial mechanism is through Consulting-Liaison Psychiatry...
Informing cancer patient in relation to his type of personality: the controlling-orderly (obsessive) patientG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
J BUON 15:601-6. 2010
..The denial degree is small to minimal, while the degree of information is large to very large...
Informing cancer patient in relation to his type of personality: the dependent (oral) patientG Kallergis
Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Health, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
J BUON 16:366-71. 2011
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