When a healthy child suddenly develops some incurable disease, it is undoubtedly an unexpected disaster for the child’s family. Parents often cannot accept this strong stimulus and are surprised, frightened, in denial, in denial, and can even be very anxious and depressed, and it takes some time to gradually adjust and adapt.
Parents are directly affected by the lack of knowledge about leukemia and the uncertainty of future changes in their child’s condition. In life, they not only have to think about their child’s health, hospital tests, and treatment, but they may also worry about the impact of their child’s condition on their own work, couple relationships, social interactions, and financial situation. Therefore, parents can often feel tired, depressed and depressed, but worrying too much about these issues not only affects their own psychological state it can also affect family relationships.
Health workers can use group therapy and family systems therapy in their daily work to help parents maintain a healthy state of mind, face reality correctly, and guide them to express and vent their negative emotions.
Parents can also take some appropriate approaches to actively adjust their mindset, such as
- Parents can ask medical professionals for information at different stages of their child’s illness to keep abreast of changes in their child’s condition and treatment, and they can also learn some relevant care knowledge from them to take better care of their child.
- Parents who need it can ask the medical staff to help them ask for social support and seek some moral and material support from caring community members and volunteers.
- Parents can actively participate in symposiums, special lectures, and exchange meetings organized by health care professionals, where they can share their care experiences with parents of different treatment periods and learn from the care tips of parents of children with leukemia who have recovered.
- Parents can also do relaxation exercises under the guidance of healthcare professionals, such as deep breathing, learning to give themselves positive mental cues, better stress relief, and maintaining a good mood.