PEDIATRICS Vol. 36 No. 6 December 1965, pp. 939
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A Child Goes to the Hospital, by Harold Geist. Springfield, Illinois : Charles C Thomas, 1965, 128 pp., $5.75

John s. Terrell M.D.

The medical aspects of a particular illness may often overshadow the need for adequate preparation and care of children before, during, and after the child's admission to the hospital. Hospitalization with the child's reaction to separation from the parents is more often than not a traumatic event, especially in the child under four, and a causative factor in disturbances of the child-parent relationship.

The author, a consulting clinical psychologist in Berkeley, California, outlines not only the effect of hospitalization on the child-parent relationship, but also the importance of the child-nurse and the nurse-parent relationship.