Care of the Child Facing Death

Lindy Burton was an educational psychologists specializing in child guidance problems and authored many articles and books on children's behaviour problems and the responses of sick children to their illnesses.

Part 1: General Problems 1. The Size and Nature of the Problem 2. Tolerating the Intolerable – The Problems Facing Parent and Children Following Diagnosis 3. Problems Posed For Staff Who Care For the Child Part 2: Specific Problems 4. The Child in Pain Alexander5. The ‘Doomed Family’ – Observations on the Lives of Parents and Children Facing Repeated Child Mortality 6. The Family Coping with a Heavy Treatment Régime Part 3: Helping the Child 7. ‘The Care of Our Dying Child’ – A Parent Offers Some Personal Observations Based on Recollection 8. The Role of Education in Helping The Child With a Potentially Fatal Disease 9. Social Work Help for Children Whose Life May be Shortened 10. The Role of Nursing Staff in Helping the Hospitalised Child Janet Duberley 11. The Psychiatric Care of Children with Life-Threatening Illnesses Part 4: Helping the Family 12. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Dying Child and His Family 13. The Physician and the Family 14. Parents’ Groups and Associations 15. Counselling The Grieving Parent 16. Caring for the Brothers and Sisters of a Dying Child 17. Bereavement and the Rebuilding of Family Life.