Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer (Second Edition)
A Guide for Parents and Families
$29.36
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2006
Summary
Cancer is bad news. It’s frightening to even think about it. Now think how frightening it would be for your children to know you have cancer. How do you tell them? How do you deal with the trauma and the pain? How do you prepare for the emotional and psychological upheaval a family endures when a parent has cancer?Peter Van Dernoot has gathered the real-life stories and experiences of over twenty parents who have been diagnosed with cancer. They share their deepest fears and their highest hop…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781578262311 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1578262313 |
| Author: | Peter VanDerNoot, Madelyn Case |
| Publisher: | Hatherleigh Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Hatherleigh Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
“Helping Your Children Cope With Your Cancer provides valuable advice on how to discuss the impact of this disease on the whole family. The personal stories in this book really show the importance of opening a dialogue for children to ask questions, share feelings, and gain the knowledge they need to cope with a parent’s cancer.” –Lance Armstrong
“Helping your children cope with your cancer…will be the hardest thing you have ever done and this book and the personal stories and programs contained in it will help you do it the best way for you and your child.” –Peggy Anne Murphy, L.M.S.W., Les Gallo-Silver, L.C.S.W.R., and Stacy Kramer, L.M.S.W., Cancer Care, Inc.
“This book provides an instant support group for families in which a parent has been diagnosed with cancer.”–The Susan G. Komen Foundation
“A remarkable publication, the first of its kind…essential to every family afflicted with cancer.” –William R. Nelson, M.D., former Surgical Oncologist Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center
About The Author
Peter VanDerNoot
Peter van Dernoot’s wife was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer when their children were 11 and 15, and died at the age of forty-five. From 1981 to 2001 he operated his own communications management company in Denver, Colorado. Previously, he held senior public relations posts in major international companies. In 2001, he founded The Children’s Treehouse Foundation, and in 2005, received the Human Service Professional of the Year award from the National Association of Social Workers, Colorado Chapter, for his work with the foundation. To learn more about the foundation, Proceeds from the sale of this book are being donated to The Children’s Treehouse Foundation.
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