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An Approach to the Emotional Support of Fatally Ill Children

University of Southern California School of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Joel Vernick

Clinical Social Worker, Child Research Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

When children with leukemia were en couraged to ask questions about their ill ness, they asked many. These questions were straightforward, demonstrating their interest in learning about their illness, and emphasiz ing their need to place events in perspective. Much of the staff's initial fear and appre hension regarding their ability to deal with problems centering around life and death were gradually resolved as they began to ap proach these problems with the information gathered from the children rather than with the preconceived prejudices obtained from other adults.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 7, No. 5, 274-280 (1968)
DOI: 10.1177/000992286800700509


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