Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Webster, M. Louise
• Skeen, Jane E
• Kreitler, Shulamith
• Ben‐Arush, Myriam Weyl
• Martin, Andrés

Titel

Communicating with Children: Their Understanding, Information Needs, and Processes

Ist Teil von

• Pediatric Psycho‐Oncology, 2012, p.71-91

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For children and adolescents with cancer, psychological and emotional wellbeing is linked to the amount of good information about their illness and treatment that has been given to them by their parents and health care professionals. This chapter will review the evidence base for a practice of being open and honest with children about cancer, the factors that make it hard for parents to talk to their children about serious matters, children's understanding of illness and of death, and child and family preference regarding how information is given. Practical strategies in speaking with children will be discussed. In approaching communication about serious illness with children, we need to include the important people in the child's world – their parents, siblings, extended family, and often friends and classmates.