| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xxiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Revised edition of: Cancer in the family / Sue P. Heiney [and others]. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. How this book can help ; Helping children cope ; Children's reactions to a crisis in the family ; Children's developmental stages -- Helping children understand a cancer diagnosis. Opening the door to communication ; Talking with your children ; Children's common questions ; Children's reactions to learning a parent has cancer ; What you can do ; Hands-on tools -- Helping children understand treatment. Understanding your responses to treatment ; What children need to know ; Talking with your children ; Taking children to the hospital or clinic ; Talking with people at school ; Children's emotional reactions to treatment ; Reactions to uncertainty ; Coping with changes ; Hands-on tools -- Understanding and using psychosocial support services. When to get help ; Using psychosocial support services ; How to know if your child needs help ; When things are not getting better ; Asking for help can be difficult ; Available services ; Finding and paying for services -- Taking care of yourself. Therapies to soothe your mind, body, and spirit -- After treatment ends. Coping with change and uncertainty after treatment ; Understanding children's feelings after treatment ends ; Thriving after cancer treatment ; Hands-on tools -- Helping children deal with cancer coming back and advanced cancer. What you may be feeling ; Explaining cancer coming back to children ; Advanced cancer ; Children's reactions to a parent's potential death ; The impact of cancer on a child's future ; If a parent dies: guidelines for caregivers ; Hands-on tools -- Special issues. Single parent families ; Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families ; Other problems that may impact a family dealing with cancer ; When children are facing other losses -- Conclusion. The new normal. |
| Summary |
Explains to parents how to talk to children to help them cope when their mother or father is diagnosed with cancer, in a book that also has an illustrated activities section. |
| Subject |
Children of cancer patients.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
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Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
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Neoplasms -- psychology -- Popular Works.
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Parent-Child Relations -- Popular Works.
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Child.
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Psychology, Child -- Popular Works.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst00845422
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Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00845466
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Children of cancer patients. (OCoLC)fst00855326
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| Added Author |
Hermann, Joan F.
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| Added Title |
Cancer in the family.
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| ISBN |
9780944235959 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0944235956 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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