title: Summer Camp for Children And Adolescents with Chronic Conditions.
abstract: Children with chronic conditions experience physical, social, emotional, and developmental challenges that include physical differences, negative body image, social isolation, decreased emotional functioning, and developmental concerns. Summer camps are a way to help these children overcome their difficulties. They provide an enjoyable experience, encourage goal achievement, give children a sense of community and friendship, improve children's self-concept, increase children's disease knowledge and management, and contribute to campers' positive development. Nurses can encourage families to use these camps as a therapeutic intervention and help families evaluate individual camps to find a good fit for their child.
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McCarthy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002165:Camping / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male