Resumen:
It makes no sense to talk about palliative care without referencing a multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary team approach comprising different professionals from different fields, supporting the
patient and family (TWYCROSS, 2003). This is our challenge: the challenge to study the psychosocial world of
palliative patients and their families, where health care are considered active and centered on the human
being. We intend in this paper to contribute to the knowledge of the families in the context of terminal
illness using the systemic research done in this area and our empirical knowledge, while researchers and
practitioners in their daily work with patients and families in higher distress.