Management of stressful periods in childhood cancer.
There are four major periods of stress for a family having a child with cancer. They are diagnosis, remission, death, and long-term survival. Each of these periods has particular management problems requiring careful assessment and intervention. The author provides such management strategies in this article.
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010290:Parents; D011379:Prognosis; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*