Children in hospital: games to take the strangeness away.
'Despite skilled and dedicated care by hospital staff, many children are bitterly unhappy in hospital, frightened, lonely and homesick.' Pauline Drummond draws on personal experience to corroborate this statement by NAWCH, and describes some developments designed to prepare young children better for the possibility of a stay in hospital.
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