| Sumario: | The writers discuss psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD), a chronic, hereditary, and congenital blood disorder that affects one in every 400 to 500 African-American babies. They reveal that children and adolescents with SCD often manifest neurocognitive impairments, learning problems, internalizing and externalizing of behavior problems, problematic interpersonal relationships, low self-esteem, and maladaptive coping patterns, in addition to their multiple medical problems. They discuss the dearth of literature on social interventions for children and adolescents with SCD and present psychosocial treatment options for adults that have been modified appropriately.
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