PERSPECTIVAS E DESAFIOS DA PSICOLOGIA POSITIVA NOS CUIDADOS PALIATIVOS: Uma revisão sistemática

This article presents a reflection on the main psychological interventions of Positive Psychology in palliative care, an approach that expands and innovates the need to nourish what is best in oneself, and thus improve the quality of life, valuing people's peculiar aspects, based on their own strengths and virtues, in the search prevention of pathologies. For the systematic review, the bibliographic databases PubMed, BVS, LILACS and SciELO were searched, limited to scientific production from the year 2014 to 2024, without language restrictions, from May 1st to May 5th, 2024. The descriptors used were [“positive psychology” AND “palliative care”], we chose not to include specific descriptors such as: intervention or techniques. The research presents a reduced volume of scientific studies, a sample of seven selected articles from six countries: Switzerland, the United States of America, Canada, Italy, Portugal and Spain. From the proposed reflection, it was possible to observe that the knowledge of palliative care therapy and positive psychology interventions are consistent with a sense of meaning and purpose, with emerging challenges, the lack of theorization and the absence of scientific debates on the topic.