Speaking honestly with sick and dying children and adolescents
Subtitle: unlocking the silence
By: Dietrich Niethammer ; foreword by Christoph Schmeling-Kludas, foreword by Ruprecht Nitschke ; translated by Victoria W. Hill
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781421404554; 9781421404561
Subjects: Terminally Ill; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychology; Attitude to Death; Child; Adolescent
Work titles: Sprachlose Kind
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Children, sickness, and death; title: Children in the hospital; title: Children and doctors; title: Death and dying in the everyday lives of children; title: Physician paternalism versus patient autonomy; title: The "precociously mature child"; title: Healthy children's concepts of death; title: Sick children's concepts of death; title: Should we tell sick children the truth?; title: Decisions at the end of life.