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In Sickness and in Play - Children Coping with Chronic Illness (Paperback)
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In Sickness and in Play - Children Coping with Chronic Illness (Paperback)
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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For children who live with a chronic illness, each day is filled
with endless treatments, painful symptoms, confusion, and
embarrassment. How can an eight-year-old girl understand diabetes,
let alone explain to her schoolmates why she has to leave class to
have her blood tested? How can the father of a child with asthma
ever sleep soundly through the night with the fear that his son may
suffocate in the next room? In this book, Cindy Dell Clark tells
the stories of children who suffer from two common illnesses that
are often underestimated by those not directly touched by
them-asthma and diabetes. She describes how play, humor, and other
expressive methods, invented by the children themselves, allow
families to cope with the pain. Her interviews with forty-six
families give readers an understanding of how children comprehend
their illnesses and how parents struggle to care for their sons and
daughters while trying to give them a "normal" childhood.
Chronically ill children are at a greater risk of developing mental
health or social adjustment problems than their peers, and asthma
has been gaining ground in both incidence and fatality in recent
years. This eye-opening work emphasizes the importance of improving
the lives of these children by understanding their perspectives,
both imagined and real. In Sickness and in Play is part of the
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies edited by Myra
Bluebond-Langner. Cindy Dell Clark is an assistant professor of
human development and family studies at Pennsylvania State
University, Delaware County and author of Flights of Fancy, Leaps
of Faith: Children's Myths in Contemporary America.
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