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Loading... This is Our Child: How Parents Experience the Medical Worldby Antonya Cooper
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Today's parents expect to have a healthy baby and to provide a safe and happy future for their children. When a child has a serious illness, parents find the situation hard to accept and cope with. The whole family is deeply affected. They find themselves in alien and traumatic situationswhere medical personnel, their machinery, and their medications seem to take centre stage. Everyone is under stress: death and suffering in children are hard for anyone to come to terms with; and it is often difficult for families to find practical and sympathetic help. Health professionals mayavoid facing their own emotions by hiding behind their clinical roles, and family members and friends may also try to deny their feelings.This collection of accounts by parents and teenagers gives a very personal and moving insight into their experiences of their child's illness and of the medical world, each followed by a brief medical perspective. The book will be helpful to all professionals working with children. There is avoid in training which only parents who have faced such situations can fill. The book will also help families in similar situations and facilitate discussion with the professionals involved. It describes how others have endured, coped with, and eventually survived the experience.Antonya Cooper has spoken at a number of medical seminars and training courses about her experiences during her son's 18-month treatment for neuroblastoma. Dr Valerie Harpin is Consultant Community Paediatrician in Oxford and has set up and run parent support groups. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)618.92Technology Medicine and health Gynecology and Pediatrics Pediatrics & Geriatrics Pediatric CareLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |