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Strategies of intervention with families of pediatric leukemia patients: a longitudinal perspective.
Soc Work Health Care
; 8(2): 31-47, 1982.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7170669
ABSTRACT
As part of a longitudinal research study, families of children with leukemia were provided with a psychosocial intervention program over a two-year period. This paper describes the approaches used at specific times during the illness: diagnosis and initial treatment, early outpatient treatment, later outpatient treatment, remission, relapse, and death. The goals of the intervention strategies were to facilitate: an understanding of the realities of the illness; management of emotional distress; and utilization of resources to care for the child, attend to other responsibilities, and support and communicate with one another.