A sick child and his family: forms and possibilities of psychological assistance. Tutorial

The study manual provides detailed characteristics of the family"s crisis response to the child"s disease, described the experiences of parents in such a situation, as well as clarified forms and methods of psychotherapeutic work with families of somatically sick children. An analysis of the psychological experiences of patients of children, their personal and emotional responses to the disease, secondary mental disorders caused by severe ailments. Descriptions are illustrated by a large number of clinical cases from practice. A varied, including copyright, clinical and psychological techniques for identifying psychological and psychopathological disorders are given. The author determines the most important directions of prevention, describes psychotherapeutic techniques and the skills of providing psychological (psychotherapeutic) assistance to sick children and their families.
This manual is intended for students studying on psychological specialties, primarily in the specialties Clinical Psychology, Special Psychology, and will also be useful for practical psychologists, children"s psychiatrics, family psychotherapists, pediatric specialties. It may be of interest to specialists engaged in special pedagogy and social work, for everyone who helps and supports families where there are sick children