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Context: Pediatric cancer is a wide challenge for the patients, family and health care team. They must deal with anxiety, distress, and pain. Thereby, to find meaning for this journey, they use different coping strategies, among which, spirituality appears to be a way, providing well-being and hope.Objective: The purpose of this review was to analyze the influence of spirituality in childhood cancer care, involving biopsychosocial aspects of child, family, and health professionals facing cancer.Data Sources: To achieve this goal, a systematic review of literature was conducted via electronic databases Scopus, MEDLINE and PubMed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms: "spirituality", "neoplasm" and "pediatric".Study Selection: Through this search it was found 65 articles.After analyzing them by abstract 13 met the eligibility criteria and were entirely read before included in the final sample.Data Extractions: Sys Most of the studies stated that spirituality helps pediatric patients and their families to find a positive meaning from cancer experience, turning better the management of child. Besides, health practitioners may be able to facilitate this process working as a multidisciplinary team, providing to patient an unabridged care.

As quality is of life considered as a measure of clinical outcome that prioritizes client assessment itself and the effects of a disease, a life change or a treatment has on their daily life and their level of satisfaction and well-being, their evaluation allows obtain a safe parameter for implementing clinical interventions that may have more positive impact on the lives of these people. It is believed that investigate the QoL of a given population is a strategy that will enable to broaden the understanding of the problems experienced by patients in order to facilitate effective future interventions, improving the quality of lived days. This information can also be used to identify patients at higher risk of problems and thus anticipate interventions, contributing to health promotion thereof. Nevertheless, there is currently a growing interest in transforming the QoL in a quantitative measure. To this end, the measurement of quality of life through the perception of the patient has been recommended. Some studies indicate that the measurement of quality of life the mental patient is an indicator of the care he receives and that this issue should be included in the assessment and care planning. There are few studies witch accessed the influence of health intervention on patients 'quality of life, anxiety, and depressive symptom levels. With this brief contribution, we hope can deepen discussion regards public health and mental wellbeing, as well as the options of measurement instruments to assess mental health interventions and thus able to gather more arguments to answer the following question: What`s the best way for measuring quality of life in Mental health?

As an important problem of public health, the childhood depression deserves special attention, in which the serious and long term consequences of the disease weigh to the childhood development. Taking this in consideration, the present study was based in the following research question: which practical contribution the actual scientific literature about childhood depression has to offer to clinicians and researchers? The aim of the present study was to evaluate the actual evidence concerning the different aspects (etiology/risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, prognostic and prevention) of childhood depression, with the purpose to systematize such evidences and to contribute with the knowledge about the problem. In way to reach this aim, it was performed a systematic review of articles about childhood depression, in the period from January first of 2010 to January 16 of 2014, in the databases PubMED, MEDLINE and SciELO. In the research, the following terms were used: "depression" (MeSH), "child" (MeSH) and "childhood depression" (Keyword). Of the 860 found studies, 76 met the eligibility criteria. The found studies covered a wide variety of aspects related to childhood depression, as diagnosis, treatment, prevention and prognostic. The actual scientific literature about the childhood depression converges to, directly or not, highlight the negative impacts of the depression disorders to the life quality of the children. Unfortunately, the found studies show that the childhood depression is a disorder that develops most commonly in a poverty and vulnerability scenery, where the individual and familiar necessities concerning the childhood depression are not always taken in consideration. In this context, this review demonstrates that the depression started in

Introduction: Subjective well-being, quality of life, cognition and psychosocial performance, including employment, have become endpoints of interest and goals for patients, families, clinicians and researchers. In this line, it is important to clarify the adverse effects caused by antipsychotics in order to innovate and complement treatment of patients with an individualize approach according to the patient's needs and predispositions. Objectives:Discuss new treatment's way for patients using antipsychotics, elucidating the pros and cons of their use.Results: Atypical antipsychotics cause weight gain and lead to a higher risk of diabetes and other metabolic sequelae than their typical counterparts. Besides, second-generation(atypical) has also shown adverse effects like: akathisia, sedation, abnormal metabolic laboratory results, and weight gain. On the other hand, talking about the first-gentration (typical) antipsychotics, their clinical effectiveness is challenged by increased acute and chronic extrapyramidal side effects and related symptoms of dysphoria, compared to second-generation (atypical) antipsychotics. In addition, available evidence indicates that antipsychotic medications increase the risk of cerebrovascular adverse events (CVAEs) and death when used to treat elderly patients with Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD). Besides, some studies show that patient populations that are prescribed antipsychotic agents have a higher cardiovascular mortality rate than the general population. Considering that, we can see that each psychotic patient will need an individualized treatment according to their physical, social and psychological limitations and needs, leading us to realize the significance of this paper since it emphasizes the holistic management of this kind of patient.