The clinical health psychology service aims to work with hospital staff, patients and their families or carers to create a joint, biopsychosocial understanding of the impact of physical illhealth and its treatment on the person and their family. The aim is to improve:
• Coping with complex/demanding or invasive with medical procedures,
• coping with long term or chronic conditions,
• coping with trauma associated to the illness or its treatment,
• complex decision making related to illness or its treatment,
• coping with a sense that future is uncertain,
• coping with how illness affects close relationships,
• managing the demands of home and family life while caring for yourself,
• feelings of depression, anxiety and anger,
• feeling unhappy about body image due to illness or its treatment,
• coping with adjustment, change and loss,
• coping with pain, discomfort, fatigue and treatment side effects,
• coping with how illness affects sexual functioning,
• coping with how illness affects self-esteem and sense of self.