This chapter considers research concerning psychological adaptation of healthy siblings
and the implications for research and comprehensive care concerning chronically ill children …

The presence of a chronically sick or handicapped child in the family places considerable
physical and emotional strain on parents, healthy siblings, and even extended relations …

Abstract" Aspects of Grief" provides a comprehensive study of adult bereavement and the
grieving process. Beginning with a consideration of Western attitudes to death and dying …

Abstract 116 long-term survivors of childhood malignancies were interviewed by a
psychologist and a psychiatrist, who independently assigned adjustment ratings to each. Ss' …

252 INTERVENTIONS IN BEHALF OF THE IMPAIRED ELDERLY death have all been
reported as part of this process. The process has been recognized as nurmal, though …

Twenty-four families who had participated in a Home Care Program for children terminally ill
with cancer and 13 families of similar children who had died in the hospital completed …

A subset of data from a longitudinal grounded theory study was analyzed to describe the
experience families have during the period immediately surrounding the time of diagnosis of …

To provide data to guide physicians regarding the extent to which pediatric patients and their
families should be involved in decision-making discussions by their health care teams, we …

A descriptive, correlational design was used to investigate the relationship of the longevity of
the cancer experience and the presence of a relapse to the child's self-perception, cancer …

Sixty-four families of children diagnosed with leukemia participated in the Co** Project, a
prospective study of family co** with leukemia. Based on ratings made by physicians …