Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Family therapy reduces stress symptoms in teen survivors of childhood cancer

Published in Hospital Business Week, November 21st, 2004

Family therapy and other psychological treatments may help reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress among teenaged survivors of childhood cancer - as well as among their parents.

In studying a group of 150 families, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found that participants had significantly fewer symptoms of post-traumatic stress after a 1-day treatment program, compared to a control group who did not receive the treatment. Each family included an adolescent who had completed cancer treatment an average of 5 years previously.

The study, in the Journal of Family Psychology, is the first reported large randomized clinical...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2004-11-21)

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