The Child's Discovery of Death

The Child's Discovery of Death. A Study in Child Psychology

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Failure to return all cerebellar and cerebellar cortex activities is called brain death. As the advancement of medical technology was first introduced in 1952 in the United States and a few years later in France, this concept was introduced. Today, most advanced countries in the world have accepted, through laws or judicial decisions, that death is due to the cessation of brain activity, and br...

The Absence of a Drug-Disease Interaction Alert Leads to a Child's Death.

The absence of a drug-disease interaction alert leads to a child's death.

Parents' perspectives regarding a physician-parent conference after their child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit.

OBJECTIVE To investigate parents' perspectives on the desirability, content, and conditions of a physician-parent conference after their child's death in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). STUDY DESIGN Audio-recorded telephone interviews were conducted with 56 parents of 48 children. All children died in the PICU of one of six children's hospitals in the National Institute of Child Hea...

Explaining death to children.

ABSTRACT This essay deals with the necessity of explaining death to children, and offers guidelines as to how parents can do this. It points out that ignoring the child's need to confront the issue of death can only be harmful, depriving him of the opportunity to share his grief. The author suggests that parents be honest with their children about death, be receptive to the child's feelings and...