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Talking openly with sick and dying children about their illness
is always difficult and often agonizing. It is honesty, however,
that these children deserve and need. Dietrich Niethammer, a
prominent pediatric oncologist, explains why it is so important to
speak frankly and respectfully to young patients about their
disease.
The question at the heart of this book is how children and
adolescents feel and think about death and dying. Dr. Niethammer
thoroughly examines the literature on the topic, arguing that
children and adolescents not only are capable of discussing their
illness but benefit from doing so. Puzzled why it took medical
practitioners so long to accept truth-telling in their care of
dying children, Niethammer traces the development of this notion
from the early twentieth-century work of Sigmund Freud to the
discomfort surrounding it still today.
Severely sick children and adolescents think about the
consequences of their disease, whether adults discuss it with them
or not. When adults remain silent, they do a disservice to the
children. Dr. Niethammer urges doctors to practice not in silence
and denial but in open communication with ill children, giving the
children an opportunity to express their fears and anxieties and to
cope with their disease on their own terms.
Dr. Niethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with
the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable
resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers,
parents--for all who care for sick and dying children and
adolescents.
Publishing on the 50th anniversary of the opening of St
Christopher's Hospice - widely thought of to be the first modern
hospice, combining pain and symptom management with education and
training - this edited collection discusses what motivates
professionals and volunteers to provide spiritual care. This book
shows how the world of hospice care is moving on from Cicely
Saunder's, founder of St Christopher's Hospice, legacy to providing
spiritual care in a more integrated manner. With entries from
doctors, nurses and CEOs among others, this book informs good
practice for professionals and volunteers providing spiritual care
for patients and their families. It looks at how, for many of these
professionals, spirituality does not have to be grounded in
organised religion, but stems from understanding and providing for
our human needs.
In this volume the personal journey of why a nurse chose to leave
Acute Care nursing to be involved in Palliative Care nursing
connect with a broader culture of Palliative Care nursing by
interviewing those who chose palliative care nursing and examine
the reasons for changes in careers from acute, curing based,
nursing to Palliative Caring for those in end of life nursing. The
longest section of the study travels the world of Palliative
nursing with participant observers. It is about the actively
working nurse and includes extensive analytical discussion of an
attempt to understand the sense of professional change, and the
significance of beliefs for the reasoning behind vocational
transformation. The second section examines the interviews, the
third addresses the heart of the research question and examines
nursing moving from a curing model to a caring only approach when
death of the patient is inevitable. The volume ends with a letter
written by the author to her sons asking them to be there when her
time comes at the end of life through a life limiting illness and
requests her sons and the Palliative Care professionals observe her
final wishes.
'Warm, wise and practical' Cressida Cowell, MBE An invaluable
reference for parents of sick or hospitalised children by an
experienced and eminent psychologist. To many parents, it is hard
to imagine a more upsetting reality than one where their child is
hospitalised, severely sick, or terminally ill. In When Your Child
is Sick, psychologist Joanna Breyer distils decades of experience
working with sick children and their families into a comprehensive
guide for navigating the uncharted and frightening terrain. She
provides expert advice to guide them through the hospital setting,
at-home care, and long-term outcomes. Breyer's actionable
techniques and direct advice will help parents feel more in-control
of a circumstance that has upended their life. She alerts parents
to key personnel in the hospital, gives dialogue prompts to help
parents ask for the help they need, addresses the needs of their
other children at home, offers advice on how to best utilise
friends and family who want to help, includes stories from other
families who have been there, and teaches coping techniques to help
both parents and children weather the stress of prolonged illness
and even death. When Your Child is Sick is a valuable guide to
managing the myriad practical and emotional complications of an
impossible situation.
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Rebecca Stewart; Illustrated by Miriam Cavanaugh
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