1. Social Work in Pediatrics
The end goal of all of them is to allow the child to communicate their frustrations and feelings in dealing with their illness, and come to accept their situation, which many find overwhelming: Children facing [life-threatening] illness may experience helplessness, loneliness, anger, sadness, guilt, or any combination of these feelings. ... Stevenson (1995) argues that art therapy allows children to informally express their emotions, without having to talk about them to those close to them: Young people facing life-threatening illness sometimes hold in their feelings to protect the people ...
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