Psychology, spituality/religiosity and palliative care: an integrative review

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The spirituality is part of the psychic constitution, generating behaviors that influence the perception of the health / disease dichotomy and for patients in palliative care is considered a more urgent need due to the moment of vulnerability. OBJECTIVE: to understand how the spiritual dimension is approached in the context of palliative care. METHOD: Integrative Review of the literature, with data collection in February 2018, in the databases PEPSIC, SCIELO, SCOPUS, PubMed, of articles published between January 2015 and December 2018 and the descriptors used were "psyholog *”, "Spirit *" and "palliative care". RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: 05 articles were included, in which spirituality appears as a necessity of the patient and his family, being part of the integral care provided / granted to the patient in palliative care. The concepts of spirituality presented are convergent, there are practices and approaches that allow the psychologist to work the spiritual dimension in palliative care. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: it is relevant to consider the spiritual dimension of patients in the context of palliative care, therefore, it is necessary this theme during the academic training in Psychology, as well as the development of new studies carried out on this topic by psychologists.