title: [Psychological assistance in organ transplantation].
abstract: The aim of this report is introducing with a series of psychological, psychiatric and psychosocial problems, that can arise, at every point, in the procedure of organ transplantations. Different areas of intervention are considered: the assistance to the patients and their families during the pre- and post-operative periods; the evaluation of transplant recipients' quality of life; ethical and psychological problems of living kidney donation; psychosocial support to donors' families; the training of the intensive therapy units to entertain relationships with donors' relatives; the delicate psychological aspects of transplantation during childhood. The sense of awareness about these matters is growing in Italy too, and many initiatives of psychological and psychiatric help are being developed in collaboration with several transplantation centres.
authors.affiliation: Servizio di Psicologia Medica, Centro Regionale di Riferimento per i Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Battista di Torino.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lovera
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Basile
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertolotti
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Comazzi
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Clerici
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gandione
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mazzoldi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rupolo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feltrin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ponton
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D019520:Living Donors; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011788:Quality of Life
vernacular_title: L'assistenza psicologica nei trapianti d'organo.