Palliative Medicine and Hospice Care · Vol. 4, No. 1 · 2018 · pp. 7–9 · e-ISSN 2377-8393

The Role of Emotions in Palliative Care

Joaquín T. Limonero, María Antonia Lacasta Reverte, María José Gómez-Romero, Francisco Gil-Moncayo

Stress and Health Research Group, Faculty of Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainSpain
Palliative Care Unit, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, SpainSpain
Stress and Health Research Group, Faculty of Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Psychology Unit, Egarsat, Mutua Colaboradora con la Seguridad Social nº 276,Terrassa (Barcelona), SpainSpain
Psycho-Oncology Unit, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, SpainSpain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17140/pmhcoj-4-127 · Published 2018-03-05 · Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 · © 2018 The Author(s)

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Abstract

Emotions are inherent to human condition and color all the activities we do every single day. They are the most important engine in our lives and facilitate the adaptation to environmental demands: they influence the cognitive superior processes, for example, perception, thinking, decision-making, language, beliefs, motivation, learning, memory and our behavior and intentions.

Acknowledgments

help teams to make decisions.

This study was supported in part by grant PSI2013-43555-R from To make a good assessment of emotional reactions of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MINECO (Spain). both patients and caregivers, it is necessary not only to ask them about their emotional reactions, worries or what is the most im-

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