Understanding the Impact of Chronic Childhood Illness on Families

Mourning and the Birth of a Defective Child

Albert J. Solnit, Mary H. Stark · The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child · 1961 · 432 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +11

The Adaptation of Parents to the Birth of an Infant With a Congenital Malformation: A Hypothetical Model

Dennis Drotar, Ann Baskiewicz, Nancy Irvin et al. · PEDIATRICS · 1975 · 371 citations

Education, Human Development, Pediatrics +17

Childhood Leukemia

C Binger, Arthur R. Ablin, R. Feuerstein et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1969 · 323 citations

Education, Psychiatry, Psychology +16

Chronic sorrow revisited: Parent vs. professional depiction of the adjustment of parents of mentally retarded children.

Lynn Wikler, Mona Wasow, Elaine Hatfield · American Journal of Orthopsychiatry · 1981 · 234 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Work +14

Psychologic Adjustment of Siblings of Children With Chronic Illness

John V. Lavigne, Michael Ryan · PEDIATRICS · 1979 · 194 citations

Social Sciences, Hematology, Psychology +16