In the moment that the family receives the diagnosis of an oncological disease, it develops strategies that help it cope with the situation, due to the aversive construct that it has, therefore, this research with a systemic approach of qualitative methodology have of documentary review, has as an objective to determine the social, emotional and psychological coping strategies used by the families of children with an oncological disease. Based on the results obtained, it is important to point out that there are strategies that optimize the balance in the face of difficulty and others that on the contrary, generate stagnation in the family system