title: Strategies of intervention with families of pediatric leukemia patients: a longitudinal perspective.
abstract: As part of a longitudinal research study, families of children with leukemia were provided with a psychosocial intervention program over a two-year period. This paper describes the approaches used at specific times during the illness: diagnosis and initial treatment, early outpatient treatment, later outpatient treatment, remission, relapse, and death. The goals of the intervention strategies were to facilitate: an understanding of the realities of the illness; management of emotional distress; and utilization of resources to care for the child, attend to other responsibilities, and support and communicate with one another.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002641:Chicago; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003643:Death; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000523:psychology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011897:Random Allocation; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric