Inter-Professional Caring for Children Who Are Relatives of Cancer Patients in Palliative Care: Perspectives of Doctors and Social Workers.
A palliative cancer diagnosis in a parent has a major impact on many aspects of patients' children. This article aims to explore how doctors and social workers met children as relatives of a parent with cancer in order to understand the possibilities and difficulties in supporting children in specia...
| Published in: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 595 - 615 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2019
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