The Impact of a Mother’s Emotional Strains and Disclosure of Cancer on Her Child’s Defensiveness and Adjustment to Cancer

Conclusions: Mothers' emotional strains and lack of open disclosure about cancer significantly affect the psychosocial well-being of children. Implications for Practice: It is essential for nurses to assess the emotional adjustment and defensiveness strategies that children with cancer use. We believe that nurses caring for children with cancer have a professional responsibility to identify and understand defensive behaviors and other characteristics of psychosocial distress and advocate for psychological interventions that will help mothers and their children cope with cancer.
Source: Cancer Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research