Psycho-oncological Care/Counselling at the University Clinic for Urology
offered by consultant-liaison services of the
University Clinic for medical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Cancer patients, both hospitalized and those treated in an outpatient setting, at the Urology Clinic of the Innsbruck University Hospital are offered the possibility to obtain psychotherapeutic support.

Individual or pair discussions with the medical psychotherapist are arranged in accordance with the needs and wishes of those concerned and are integrated into the global treatment plan of the Urology Clinic. Patients as well as their relatives may take advantage of this offer.

People ill with a cancer disease are exposed to psychosocial stress to a particularly high degree. Key points of the supportive psychotherapy offered are: time point when the patient is informed of the diagnosis, operation, chemotherapy, deterioration of disease, recurrence.

Based on biopsychosocial (holistic) understanding of illness, supportive psychotherapy can help improve patients’ quality of life; patients learn to deal with their fears and anxieties, have an opportunity to talk about the numerous problems of everyday life and find individual solutions for coping with the illness.

Psychotherapeutic support takes the form of interviews and discussions and/or relaxing methods which the patients can continue to use by themselves at home.