The Role of the Social Workers in the Pediatric Oncology With Dying Children in Egypt

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The dying children or the terminally ill children are those children suffering from some chronic illnesses making them liable to die very soon or leaving them in a severe physical, mental and psychological state. The most common chronic disease that can express these cases is cancer, as the child suffers not only from the disease itself, but also from many things surrounding the situation from being stigma, in most countries, and the treatment procedures themselves. Lately, this topic has a great concern in all levels either practical or theoretical, through improving the pediatric oncology hospitals, creating more hospices and end of life care centers besides the increasing researchers focusing on that important topic. The dying children operation has a wider view than being a medical issue, but it concerns the socialization of the situation of the child. That means many performers can be involved in the terminally ill child case, including the family itself, the psychologists, medical staff from doctors and nurses and the social workers. So it is better deeming it as an Interdisciplinary work. This study focus on the psychosocial aspect of the dying children highlighting the social workers’ role amongst the interdisciplinary teamwork the pediatric oncology, and that an interdisciplinary teamwork could have better outcomes on the dying children. also it focuses on the situation in Egypt, through the 57357 hospital for the pediatric oncology.

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social work, pediatric oncology, 57357, dying children
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