Paediatric Psychology

With saturation media coverage of the Paris attacks, parents are asking themselves if they should talk to their children about the killings and how they should go about it.

Recent research shows that a stay in the hospital can traumatize a child for several months. This study was carried out at The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Canada. They studied 120 children who had been hospitalised in either the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) or the regular medical-surgical wards. The...

With saturation media coverage of the Paris attacks, parents are asking themselves if they should talk to their children about the killings and how they should go about it.

Recent research shows that a stay in the hospital can traumatize a child for several months. This study was carried out at The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Canada. They studied 120 children who had been hospitalised in either the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) or the regular medical-surgical wards. The...