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Emotional and physical challenges often occur in a family because of a child’s heart problem. These challenges have been arranged in charts according to the child’s age. Each chart is further divided into columns. The Parent Concerns and Child Concerns columns list common problems. The Parent Coping and Child Coping columns suggest possible solutions.
The statements under each column are a collection of experiences of many families. They can help you understand the feelings and situations that may be part of your experience in living with heart disease.
Various factors influence which of the concern/coping statements might pertain to your family situation. These include:
Your child’s:
Your family’s:
If your family has a problem with these or any other issues, the Heart Institute staff is available to help you. In addition to the cardiologists and surgeons, other caregivers in the department include the nurses, social workers and other parents whose children have heart problems. You will meet them as you come for examinations and treatments.
Parent: accepting the illness
Child: growing into childhood
Emotional Concerns
Physical Concerns
Coping
Parent: getting perspective on illness
Child: being part of the gang, in spite of heart disease
Parent: getting perspective on illness Child: being a part of the gang, in spite of heart disease
Parent: giving control of illness to adolescent
Child: taking responsibility for self and heart problem
Parent: giving control of illness to adolescent Child: taking responsibility for self and heart problem
Children's Hospital's main campus is located in the Lawrenceville neighborhood. Our main hospital address is:
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh One Children’s Hospital Way 4401 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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