Coping With Your Child's Chronic Illness - Softcover

Singer M.a., Alesia T. Barrett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885003145 ISBN 13: 9781885003140

Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

A practical guide for concerned parents who need support, effective ideas, and resources for dealing with their child's chronic illness. This invaluable book provides hope and help: Find a variety of resources for your child and family. Communicate with your child's physician. Educate yourself about your child's illness. Become and advocate for your child and family. Communicate with your child about his/her illness. Tailor your conversations with your child. Develop strategies to help your child cope at school. Identify key transition periods in your child's life. Recognize depression in your child. Recognize and accept coping methods. Have time for yourself, spouse, and other children. Avoid parent burn-out and depression.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Psychologist Singer has written an accessible introductory general guide for caregivers of chronically ill children. Specific diseases are not addressed. The book centers on coping with the shock of diagnosis; educational resources, including the child's physician, library, support groups, and Internet sites (URLs for authoritative web sites are included); advocacy for the child, parents, and other family members with healthcare and school professionals; how to explain illness and treatment to children in age-specific terms; and handling stress, burn-out, and depression in the child, parents, or siblings. Reassuring and helpful, this small volume is a first step for parents of newly diagnosed children, one of few such titles (see also Suzanne Levert's When Your Child Has a Chronic Illness, Dell, 1995). As a companion book, Robin P. Monroe's When Will I Feel Better? Understanding Chronic Illness (Concordia Pub., 1998) offers similar information in terms preschoolers can understand. Recommended.?Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1885003145
• ISBN 13: 9781885003140
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 71