Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 3/2012

Emotions and seriously ill child

The paper is about emotions and seriously ill child, about some aspects of this situation - about the sick child and his parents, his entire family, health and society. Emotions do not belong to often discussed and studied issues, however, they paly very important role both in context of origin, as well as during the course of the serious illness and its prognosis, and therefore they should be given adequate attention to this problem.

Keywords: seriously ill child, acceptation of serious disease by child, seriously ill child and his parent, seriously ill child and his family, seriously ill child nad health specialist.