title: A hospital play program: helping children with serious illness.
abstract: Children hospitalized with a life-threatening disease are experiencing a severely stressful situation that is often confusing, frightening, and anxiety-provoking. This paper describes a play-therapy program designed to facilitate the expression of these feelings, enhance the sense of mastery, foster adaptive behavior, and increase cooperation with medical treatment.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000150:complications; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010989:Play Therapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D011889:Rage; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013727:Terminal Care