title: Childhood reactions to illness and hospitalization.
abstract: Emotional and cognitive developmental stages have a bearing on how children cope with illness and hospitalization. Within this framework, a general treatment strategy for helping children and parents deal with illness can be formulated. Parents and physicians who listen, educate, reassure and promote active mastery in the child help the child cope with serious illness and hospitalization.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002657:Child Development; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010819:Physician's Role; D012043:Regression, Psychology