How to help children through a parent's serious illness : supportive, practical advice from a leading child life specialist
Summary
"In the fifteen years since it was published, HOW TO HELP CHILDREN THROUGH A PARENT'S SERIOUS ILLNESS has become the standard work on the subject. If offers supportive, practical advice, including: what to tell children about their parent's illness, how to recognize early-warning signs in a child's... Full description
- The first day of the rest of your life
- Getting it together
- Early warnings
- Help! How to give it, where to get it
- The wonderful, terrible internet
- Preparing children for hospital visits
- Coming home
- Chronic illness: when it won't get better
- Dealing with a parent's mental illness
- When things get very bad
- Children and trauma
- Single parenting, multiple households
- Genetic diseases: "no, but ..."
- Some other special situations
- Emily's hero.