The vast majority of patients exhibit a pessimistic and disappointed emotional state after being diagnosed with epilepsy. These negative emotions are extremely detrimental to the treatment and recovery of epilepsy. At this time, if a psychologist provides timely and effective psychological intervention to help eliminate their nervousness and negative emotions, the success rate of fighting the disease will be greatly increased. Three principles of psychological support treatment for epilepsy In response to the treatment of epilepsy, there is now an increasing emphasis on effective psychological support treatment for patients. Psychological support therapy for epilepsy, also known as psychosocial support therapy, is a very important part of overall epilepsy treatment. The psychological support therapy for epilepsy includes three principles of acceptance, support, and reassurance: 1. Acceptance: mainly refers to listening to the patient about his or her condition, so as to circumspectly understand the condition and familiarize the patient with psychological changes, and actively approach the patient to gain trust. 2.Support: It is to give psychological support to the patient, mainly through explanation, persuasion, comfort and suggestion and adjustment to make the patient eliminate the psychological barriers. 3.Assurance: to make the patient do actively cooperate with the treatment and gather the courage to live. Psychological support therapy is characterized by not analyzing the patient’s subconscious, but mainly supporting and helping the patient to adapt to the reality he or she is currently facing, so it is also called non-analytical treatment. It is also called non-analytic treatment. It is said that when the patient is faced with epilepsy, it is difficult to bear the psychological burden, difficult to control his or her feelings, almost collapsed, feeling helpless, and needs to rely on the psychologist’s “support” to cope with the psychological difficulties, the psychologist provides support to help the patient cope with the psychological crisis. Psychological intervention for children with epilepsy For parents of children with epilepsy, it is important to learn as much about epilepsy as possible. In addition to active treatment with the doctor and careful care of the child’s diet, it is important to do your best to avoid exposing the child to some of the causative factors that trigger seizures, such as colds, overeating, fatigue, lack of sleep and so on. Parents need to be good at guiding the child’s psychological discomfort, calmly help them to solve the problem, so that the daily life in a warm and harmonious environment. There are several specific points that parents should pay attention to: 1. Confidentiality: It is harmful to keep the child’s condition a permanent secret, parents should tell the child about the disease according to his age and understanding. At the same time, let the child understand that it is his own duty and responsibility to take medication, understand the dangers of irregular medication, so that the child can develop the habit of managing himself. 2. Don’t be overprotective: pay attention to cultivating the child’s high self-esteem and independent consciousness and personality, encourage the child to participate in various useful activities, do what he can do, enhance self-awareness, and overcome the psychological condition of shyness and incompetence. Parents must abandon the concept of “overprotection” and avoid emphasizing the recurrence of seizures to help reduce the child’s psychological disorder. 3. Education: Try to arrange for the child to be enrolled in a normal school. Parents should personally contact the school, so that the teachers understand the child’s morbidity and treatment, and obtain the sympathy, understanding, care and attention of teachers and classmates. At the same time, the child should learn about himself/herself in the group life and enhance his/her social adaptation ability. Epilepsy requires long-term treatment, which equates to a special mission given to the family of each child with epilepsy. The parents’ care, love and spiritual communication with the child is the most important. It gives the child the courage and motivation to overcome the disease. The psychological support therapy given to epilepsy patients requires strong expertise. There are two aspects of psychological support therapy: on the one hand, the patient is told how to deal with the disease and how to arrange for recuperation. On the other hand, it is about helping the patient to deal with various interpersonal problems, especially the several new problems brought about by the illness. There are two main types of encouragement needed: 1. To strengthen the patient’s self-esteem and self-confidence in the process of fighting against low self-esteem. 2. To urge the patient to take action when he or she hesitates. The therapist can use his own experience or examples of the patient’s past successes to encourage. Do not encourage the patient to do what he cannot actually do. Such encouragement can have the opposite effect of demotivating the patient and lowering his self-confidence. Most chronic patients need regular, long-term encouragement, which is most effective when given in the context of specific situations and practical problems in life or convalescence.