title: Helping the angels: a review of understanding and helping dying children.
abstract: According to the World Health Organization, 53,000 children die every year in United States because of a chronic medical condition. Physicians have to face various ethical and psychological challenges while managing these conditions. These challenges range from disclosure of diagnosis to effective grief counseling to the family. In this article we have discussed some of these challenges and strategies to effectively meet these challenges.
authors: Drs. Sarwar and Mangewala are Fellows of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mr. Baron is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toledo School of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio.
authors: Sajjad R
authors: SR
authors: Sarwar
authors: Vikas
authors: V
authors: Mangewala
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Baron
keywords: Death and dying in children; grief counseling; play therapy; terminal diagnosis in a child
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