When Your Child Is Sick
a guide to navigating the practical and emotional challenges of caring for a child who is very ill
$51.78
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2021
Summary
Navigating Childhood Illness: A Parent’s Guide
‘Warm, wise and practical’ *Cressida Cowell, MBE*
An invaluable reference for parents of sick or hospitalised children by an experienced and eminent psychologist.
To many parents, it is hard to imagine a more upsetting reality than one where their child is hospitalised, severely sick, or terminally ill. In When Your Child is Sick, psychologist Joanna Breyer distils decades of experience …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529340280 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529340284 |
| Author: | Joanna Breyer |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Sheldon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 28mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
NFAA Book Award Winner – Gold Award
Joanna Breyer balances profound compassion with pragmatism to provide an extraordinarily valuable guide to the management and care of sick children… This book should be compulsory reading for anyone facing these terrifying conundrums and life-altering decisions. - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of ‘The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer’, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and ‘The Laws of Medicine’, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University[This book] is a wonder. I stand in awe at how comprehensive it is in guiding parents through maintaining confidence and alleviating fear during what can be an extremely challenging experience. A great clinician, [Joanna Breyer] is above all an inspired teacher who provides a treasure trove of advice for those facing the greatest fear parents have-that of losing a child. - David G. Nathan, President Emeritus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Physician-in-Chief Emeritus, Boston Children’s Hospital, Robert A. Stranahan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical SchoolA compassionate, informative, and clear-eyed guide [that] lights the way for parents of children with cancer [and] provides comfort during a confusing, shocking, and despairing time. - Nancy Goodman, Executive Director, Kids v CancerThis is definitely the book to read if you have a sick child… also an excellent guide for paediatric medical staff, who will learn working tools that improve the quality of their work and the quality of their patients lives. I recommend it without hesitation and wish I d had it earlier in my professional career. - Maria Die Trill, Ph.D., President, International Psycho-Oncology SocietyAn incredibly important contribution for families with a child who has a serious illness. - Dr. Michael Yogman, Chief, Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School[Breyer] proves to be the expert friend and advocate everyone needs: informative, steady, sympathetic, and - if treatment fails - unflinching at the prospect of loss. - Harvard MagazineAbout The Author
Joanna Breyer
Joanna Breyer was educated at Oxford and Harvard where she got her psychology doctoral degree in 1983. As a psychologist she worked with children with cancer and their families for over 25 years at Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Children’s Hospital Boston. She worked in the David B. Perini Quality of Life Clinic for Survivors of Childhood Cancer for over 10 years. She is married to Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.
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