Psychonephrology 2 pp 15-30 | Cite as
Staff’s Problems and Staff’s Affective Reactions to Dialysis Patients’ Problems
Abstract
Attending to and working with patients suffering from chronic renal disease in clinical dialysis is a difficult and psychologically stressful task for the staff.1,2 According to Czaczkes and Kaplan De-Nour3 the stress has three main sources: tension between staff and patients, emotional and physical setbacks, and doubts about the effectiveness of dialysis for improving quality of life for the chronically ill patient. The first two stress sources are assumed to lead to an increase of aggression, while the doubts are often handled by reaction formation and overcompensation which in turn lead to high expectation for the patient’s medical and psychological adjustment.
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Dialysis Patient Dialysis Unit Stress Source German Federal Republic Clinical DialysisPreview
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