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Psychological resilience in children
Author(s) -
Fritz Gregory K.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30020
Subject(s) - psychosocial , childhood cancer , life expectancy , psycho oncology , psychological resilience , active listening , expectancy theory , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , cancer , clinical psychology , pediatrics , psychotherapist , social psychology , population , environmental health
Early in my career as a consultation‐liaison psychiatrist, I was very involved with the pediatric oncology service at the Children's Hospital at Stanford. This was an exciting time in the world of childhood cancer, as effective treatments were finally available, life expectancy was increasing dramatically, and long‐term survival had become a real possibility. I was fortunate to secure grant funding for one of the early studies of psychosocial outcomes in pediatric cancer survivors, and the opportunity to spend many hours listening intently to children and their families who'd survived a war with cancer changed me forever.