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When Your Child Is Sick: A Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child Who Is Very Ill
An invaluable reference for parents of sick or hospitalized children by an experienced psychosocial counselor.
To many parents, it is hard to imagine a more upsetting reality than one where their child is hospitalized, severely sick, or terminally ill. In When Your Child is Sick, psychosocial counselor Joanna Breyer distills decades of experience working with sick children and their families into a comprehensive guide for navigating the uncharted and frightening terrain. She provides expert advice to guide them through the hospital setting, at-home care, and long-term outcomes.
Breyer's actionable techniques and direct advice will help parents feel more in-control of a circumstance that has upended their life. She alerts parents to key personnel in the hospital, gives dialogue prompts to help parents ask for the help they need, addresses the needs of their other children at home, offers advice on how to best utilize friends and family who want to help, includes stories from other families who have been there, and teaches coping techniques to help both parents and children weather the stress of prolonged illness and even death.
When Your Child is Sick is a valuable guide to managing the myriad practical and emotional complications of an impossible situation.
To many parents, it is hard to imagine a more upsetting reality than one where their child is hospitalized, severely sick, or terminally ill. In When Your Child is Sick, psychosocial counselor Joanna Breyer distills decades of experience working with sick children and their families into a comprehensive guide for navigating the uncharted and frightening terrain. She provides expert advice to guide them through the hospital setting, at-home care, and long-term outcomes.
Breyer's actionable techniques and direct advice will help parents feel more in-control of a circumstance that has upended their life. She alerts parents to key personnel in the hospital, gives dialogue prompts to help parents ask for the help they need, addresses the needs of their other children at home, offers advice on how to best utilize friends and family who want to help, includes stories from other families who have been there, and teaches coping techniques to help both parents and children weather the stress of prolonged illness and even death.
When Your Child is Sick is a valuable guide to managing the myriad practical and emotional complications of an impossible situation.
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448 pages, Paperback
Published June 26, 2018
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October 25, 2019
This is an awesome book by Joanna Breyer. I wish I had it when David was going through his cancer treatments. It tells about how to talk to children about their illness, how to use relaxation and distraction techniques, dealing with sibling issues, working with your medical team...so many things! Each section describes how to talk with your children depending on their age—babies and toddlers, school-age, or adolescent. There are also tips included to help yourself during this difficult time. Near the end is a section on Survivor-ship and the issues you deal with following the cancer treatments and then a section on Bereavement. At the very end are pages of resources and agencies, books and online support and there is even an index which I think would be very helpful.
I found this book to ring true and have a lot of helpful ideas. There are some things we used with David but many more resources, books, and ideas are out there to help make this time smoother for you and your entire family.
Although much of the book is geared toward children with cancer, this book also discusses dealing with other serious illnesses or accidents. Navigating the pathways of the hospital and medical fields, as well as dealing with the repercussions of medical treatments can be very hard or devastating. This book is a great guide for parents or caretakers.
(Please Note: I received a review copy of this book by Nonfiction Author's Association in exchange for my honest review.)
I found this book to ring true and have a lot of helpful ideas. There are some things we used with David but many more resources, books, and ideas are out there to help make this time smoother for you and your entire family.
Although much of the book is geared toward children with cancer, this book also discusses dealing with other serious illnesses or accidents. Navigating the pathways of the hospital and medical fields, as well as dealing with the repercussions of medical treatments can be very hard or devastating. This book is a great guide for parents or caretakers.
(Please Note: I received a review copy of this book by Nonfiction Author's Association in exchange for my honest review.)
April 27, 2022
One of the most insightful books I've read for children with critical illness. It has tons of great resources, from summer camps for medically complex children to fertility treatments.
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