1. Helping the children of fatally ill parents
- Author
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Rosemary Moynihan and Margaret Adams-Greenly
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Psychiatry and Mental health ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,business.industry ,Intervention (counseling) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Preventive intervention ,Psychology (miscellaneous) ,Coping behavior ,Psychiatry ,business ,Parental Death - Abstract
Parental death during childhood may have enduring traumatic effects. This paper discusses a sequence of preventive interventions for children during the course of a parent's fatal illness. The approach is intended to prepare them to cope with the eventual loss of the parent and to foster their long-term adaptation.
- Published
- 1983
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