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Speaking honestly with sick and dying children and adolescents : unlocking the silence / Dietrich Niethammer ; foreword by Christoph Schmeling-Kludas, foreword by Ruprecht Nitschke ; translated by Victoria W. Hill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Niethammer, Dietrich.
- Standardized Title:
- Sprachlose Kind. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Pediatrics--Psychological aspects.
- Pediatrics.
- Sick children--Psychology.
- Sick children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Niethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, parents--for all who care for sick and dying children and adolescents.
- Contents:
- Children, sickness, and death
- Children in the hospital
- Children and doctors
- Death and dying in the everyday lives of children
- Physician paternalism versus patient autonomy
- The "precociously mature child"
- Healthy children's concepts of death
- Sick children's concepts of death
- Should we tell sick children the truth?
- Decisions at the end of life.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0536-9
- OCLC:
- 966762139
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