,Helping a Mother Face Medical Crisis in a Child

Helping a Mother Face Medical Crisis in a Child


 

Publication Date: December 1956

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Frances Spiegel; Betsy Safran

Research Area: Health; Social conditions

Keywords: Children; Health; Psychology; Social Services

Type: Other

Coverage: New York

Abstract:

The author utilizes one case example from the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York to illustrate common responses of mothers with children in medical crisis. She highlights emotional defense mechanisms to be expected, and how staff can be of most assistance.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. by Sanford Sherman, v.33, no.2, Winter 1956, p.180-184.