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Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology
2025. Vol. 14, no. 4, 126–134
doi:10.17759/jmfp.2025140413
ISSN: 2304-4977 (online)

Variability in indicators of cognitive impairment in children with cancers

 
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Abstract

Context and Relevance. The article presents a literature review of a number of modern studies dedicated to examining the features of mental development in childhood under various courses of oncological diseases and long-term treatment in a medical institution. Aim. To identify the features of mental development in children with oncological diseases. Materials and Methods. Analysis of contemporary international literature on the research topic. Results. The importance of researchers understanding the link between the specific features of the oncological disease course, prolonged treatment in a medical institution, and mental development in childhood is emphasized. The practical significance of modern research results to be used in the development and implementation of programs for psychological and pedagogical correction of mental development disorders and psychosocial rehabilitation in a hospital school within a pediatric oncology inpatient unit is outlined. In the article, the author proposes variants of higher mental function impairments in children with various oncological diseases, where the situation of a life-threatening illness is the primary biological factor. Conclusions. Taking into account the identified variability of higher mental function impairments in children with different oncological diseases can assist educational psychologists in hospital schools in developing recommendations for parents and teachers on creating special conditions for the education and upbringing of children with oncological diseases.

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Keywords: cognitive impairment, childhood, cancers, hospital pedagogy

Journal rubric: Medical Psychology

Article type: review article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2025140413

Acknowledgements. The author thanks the Project of Hospital School «We Teach/ They Learn» and the PhD, head of the department of special psychology and rehabilitation of the Moscow State University of Psychology ahd Education, Yulia Evgenievna Kurtanova.

Received 02.05.2025

Revised 05.10.2025

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For citation: Brilliantova, A.A. (2025). Variability in indicators of cognitive impairment in children with cancers. Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 14(4), 126–134. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2025140413

© Brilliantova A.A., 2025

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Anastasiya A. Brilliantova, MA in Psychology, Master of psychology , Psychologist, «We Teach/They Learn» Project of Hospital Schools, Teacher, Department of Special Psychology and Rehabilitation, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1791-846X, e-mail: rovnova.anastasiya@yandex.ru

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