Introduction: Palliative care is a philosophy of health care that prioritizes the sick individual and not his pathology, which includes physical, social, psychological, and spiritual factors. Objectives: Analyze the contributions of psychology regarding the coping of grief in palliative care. Method: It is an integrative literature review in the following databases: Virtual Health Library (VHL) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), with the descriptors psychology, palliative care and grief. Results: 13 articles were found that met the inclusion criteria and demonstrated the importance of psychology in the triad of care - the patient, team and family, on issues involving palliative care and terminality, as well as, presenting religiosity and spirituality as resources for coping with grief. Final considerations: The difficulties of patients, health professionals, and family members in the evolution of the terminality of life are evident, which makes the presence of psychology as a facilitating component of this insertion and the importance of developing more research on this theme as an instrument of scientific knowledge for the practice and interventions in education for death, quality of life, and finitude, a theme present in the content on palliative care, is perceived.

Health professionals are the public who are dealing directly with COVID-19 and with high probability of infection, since they are on the front line. This exposure and the extensive work hours, physical, emotional and psychological overload experienced by these professionals, which has affected mental health and the occurrence of stress, anxiety, anguish, fear, discouragement and possible evolution to disorders such as depression and Burnout. Based on this, the objective of the present study is to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health of health professionals. This research consisted of a literature review, for which the quality approach was used and was devel-oped from elaborate materials available in the full text. The data collection was carried out with arti-cles found in the BVS and ScIELO, from the year 2020. The results revealed that the professionals experienced high stress loads and work overload, which intensified during the pandemic period, in addition to the fear of infection and contamination of family members, friends and patients, which increased the stress factors in the daily work. Thus, it was necessary to use support resources for interventions with professionals, aiming to alleviate the suffering caused, the main resources used were online psychotherapy, online conversation wheels, empathic listening and integrative practic-es, in order to ensure the best performance of physical and mental well-being of professionals.