The role of imagery in the treatment of dying children and adolescents.
The care of terminally ill children and adolescents is often complicated by depression and the patient's inability to express needs and fears verbally. The patient's own mental imagery provides an alternate means of communication. Clinical cases illustrate some of the ways in which imagery may play a crucial role in helping these young patients to express age-appropriate needs and fears regarding helplessness, separation from loved ones, and death.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D013727:Terminal Care