Psychiatric adjustment in children with chronic physical illness.
Improved medical treatments for children with chronic illness have resulted in better survival rates as well as more morbidity and use of medical resources by ill children. Increasingly, interest is being directed at the implications of illness for the child's quality of life and psychiatric adjustment.
Garralda
M E
ME
St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London.
Palanca
M I
MI
D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011788:Quality of Life; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy