Association for malignant breast disease and other malignant diseases with women

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Novi Pogled is an association active in Herzegovina region since 2003, with the head office in Mostar. Mission of the Association is psychological help and support to the women with breast cancer and their families, during and after the treatment, as well as raising in general public on importance of health care.

Through the educations of healthy population and various ways of support to women with breast cancer and their families, we succeeded to become an important factor in protection of physical and mental health of women.

The project of psychological support for women with breast cancer and their families was developed as a response to their need, with the general goal of diminishing or fully preventing additional psychological problems caused by illness, through the insurance of support to the...

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Our work is realised in open groups whose main tasks are:

  • To educate women and their families about the illness, process of treatment, prognoses and importance of psychological support for all people in system;
  • To share the experiences with the accent on emotions provoked with the new situation - at women and at their family members, with the goal of normalisation and easier acceptance of these emotions;
  • To gain new skills of coping with stress, relaxation techniques and impulse control:
  • To improve the quality of communication onside the families what will be a way to overcome the prejudices blockade in communication;
  • To triage among the group members those who need individual psychological and/or psychiatric support.
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Our experience is telling that each woman will receive the needed quality of medical treatment in a frame of health system, while psychological support, assessed by women as equally needed and important, is not offered at all. Breast cancer is not a treat just for a woman but for the whole family as well. Thus – while waiting the health institutions to recognise this problem, our Association is trying to get professionals who will alleviate the fight with the illness of our members and their families.

Those who are healthy perceive that being with those with cancer could only bring worries, sadness, fear or other unpleasant emotion, our support groups are often a place for laugh till tears come, place where often the tears are stopped by laughing… we accept the differences in our expectations from our selves, from illness,...

instalation

Novi Pogled is an association active in Herzegovina region since 2003, with the head office in Mostar. Mission of the Association is psychological help and support to the women...

logo

Our work is realised in open groups whose main tasks are:

  • To educate women and their families about the illness, process of treatment, prognoses and importance of psychological support...