[Information given orally. The position of the psychologist].
As important as a precise diagnosis and an appropriate treatment, the words which the doctor is going to tell to the sick child and his family will have a determining therapeutic effect on the evolution or the regression of the disease. The present article illustrates this comment through histories lived in an intensive care unit of a Paris hospital.
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Service de réanimation polyvalente pédiatrique du professeur François Beaufils, hôpital Robert-Debré, 48, boulevard Sérurier, 75019 Paris, France. chantalle.hania@wanadoo.fr
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003142:Communication; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011368:Professional-Family Relations