TOPIC

Parenting & handling a loved ones illness

Below are the best resources we could find on Parenting and handling a loved ones illness.

FindCenter Video Image
02:59

Helping Child Cope with Parent’s Illness | Child Anxiety

No child should suffer depression and anxiety without help, seek professional help for you and your child and here’s some resources for educating yourself along the way.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

How to Help Children through a Parent’s Serious Illness

How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness has become the standard work on an important subject. It continues to be a go-to book for supportive, practical advice, based on the lifetime experience and clinical practice of one of America’s leading child life practitioners.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
01:30

Art Therapy Activities: Art Therapy for Children Coping with the Illness of a Parent

If the child of a parent is ill, art therapy can be used to help them explain what is happening. Ensure your child is able to express his feelings with help from a professional art therapist.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son

At the age of twenty-seven, Whitney Dafoe was forced to give up his life as a photographer who traveled the world. Bit by bit a mysterious illness stole away the pieces of his life: First, it took the strength of his legs, then his voice, and his ability to eat.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

When Someone Has a Very Serious Illness: Children Can Learn to Cope with Loss and Change

A resource for helping children learn the basic concepts of illness and various age-appropriate ways of coping with it.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Helping Your Child Cope with a Chronically Ill Parent

In 1990, my mother wrote an article for the Journal of Contemporary Dialysis and Nephrology [1] instructing parents with chronic illness on how to help their children cope.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Caught Between Young Kids and a Parent with Alzheimer’s, I Found a Lifeline on the Playground

My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.

FindCenter AddIcon

UP NEXT

Helping Children Deal with Emotions