E-learning as a Significant Part of Education Increasing the Possibilities of Coping with Oncological Disease in Adolescents

Abstract

The presented study defines the period of adolescence in the context of particularities of oncological disease as a period of searching for one's social and personal identity. If a serious disease enters this process, the real crisis occurs. From being diagnosed, during the entire treatment until coming back to the life among their peers, the ill adolescents have to use various strategies to be able to cope with the disease. One of the possibilities how to strengthen these coping strategies is also educating of ill adolescents, while e-learning can be undoubtedly considered its modern part.