TY - JOUR
T1 - Post-traumatic Stress Response to Life-Threatening Illnesses in Children and Their Parents
AU - Stuber, Margaret L.
AU - Shemesh, Eyal
N1 - Funding Information:
This article was supported by KO8-MH63755 award and R-34 MH071249 (E. Shemesh) and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services (R40 MC00120) (M.L. Stuber).
Funding Information:
The staff can be trained to recognize and help with symptoms of PTSD. A toolkit has been created by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), with support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the National Institute of Mental Health. These materials were designed to be useful for hospital-based health care providers, including physicians, nurses, and emergency care providers, and for parents. The toolkit includes the following:
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - Symptoms of PTSD have been reported in response to a variety of life-threatening medical illnesses and injuries in adults and children. Emerging data suggest that children often experience medical treatment and hospitalization as traumatic, putting caregivers and medical personnel in the role of the unintended accomplice. Adequate pain control by pharmacologic and behavioral means; child and family psychological support using evidence-based CBT, dynamic psychotherapy, and other techniques; and meticulous attention to communication via a team-based approach are the cornerstones of pediatric palliative care in general and PTSD prevention and treatment in particular. Emerging evidence suggests that PTSD in life-limiting pediatric illness can be ameliorated, if not prevented, and treated when it occurs, contributing materially to the quality of life of a child and family. A landmark finding of PTSD research with medically ill children and their families is that parents are at least as symptomatic, or more, as their children, underlining the importance of a family-directed approach addressing every family member. Pediatric caregivers increasingly recognize their therapeutic role when curative therapy is no longer possible is as pivotal as in the setting of acute illness.
AB - Symptoms of PTSD have been reported in response to a variety of life-threatening medical illnesses and injuries in adults and children. Emerging data suggest that children often experience medical treatment and hospitalization as traumatic, putting caregivers and medical personnel in the role of the unintended accomplice. Adequate pain control by pharmacologic and behavioral means; child and family psychological support using evidence-based CBT, dynamic psychotherapy, and other techniques; and meticulous attention to communication via a team-based approach are the cornerstones of pediatric palliative care in general and PTSD prevention and treatment in particular. Emerging evidence suggests that PTSD in life-limiting pediatric illness can be ameliorated, if not prevented, and treated when it occurs, contributing materially to the quality of life of a child and family. A landmark finding of PTSD research with medically ill children and their families is that parents are at least as symptomatic, or more, as their children, underlining the importance of a family-directed approach addressing every family member. Pediatric caregivers increasingly recognize their therapeutic role when curative therapy is no longer possible is as pivotal as in the setting of acute illness.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33745209449
U2 - 10.1016/j.chc.2006.02.006
DO - 10.1016/j.chc.2006.02.006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16797441
AN - SCOPUS:33745209449
SN - 1056-4993
VL - 15
SP - 597
EP - 609
JO - Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
JF - Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
IS - 3
ER -