Children of parents with cancer: a collaborative project between a child psychiatry clinic and an adult oncology clinic.

  • Florence Schmitt
  • Hanna Manninen
  • Päivi Santalahti
  • Elina Savonlahti
  • Seppo Pyrhönen
  • Georg Romer
  • Jorma Piha

Abstract

This article describes the development of a collaborative relationship between a child psychiatry clinic and an adult oncology clinic within a university hospital. The interest of the child psychiatry clinic was to pay attention to children of parents with cancer, and to propose an intervention to support them. A child-centred family counselling model was designed for this purpose. The preparation, implementation, and results of this project are described. Positive results, as well as mistakes and failures are discussed, and recommendations are made regarding this kind of collaboration.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number3
ISSN1359-1045
Publication statusPublished - 2007
pubmed 17953129