"Is It Going to Hurt?" How Kids Feel about a Visit to the Doctor.

Malone, Mary Jo

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ERIC Number: EJ464812

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Publication Date: 1993

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"Is It Going to Hurt?" How Kids Feel about a Visit to the Doctor.

Malone, Mary Jo

PTA Today, v18 n3 p14-15 Dec-Jan 1993

Explains how parents can help alleviate their children's anxiety when visiting the doctor or taking medication. The Children's Health Forum helps parents and children via booklets distributed nationally in doctors' offices and pharmacies that allow children fully to express their opinions and feelings. (SM)

Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Health, Early Childhood Education, Fear, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Physical Examinations, Physician Patient Relationship, Psychological Needs, Young Children

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Audience: Parents

Language: English

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