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"Then she won't miss me when I'm gone"
Using an interactionist perspective to understand the experiences and behaviour of children with life limiting conditions and life threatening illnesses and their families and to guide clinical practice
Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner, PhD,听(Hon) FRCPCH, is Professor and True Colours Chair in Palliative Care for Children and Young People at University College London, Institute of Child Health.
Working out of an approach in social sciences broadly characterized as an "interactionist perspective", she looks at how that perspective can inform research and practice through a discussion of several studies she has conducted on children with cancer and cystic fibrosis and their families. She will focus on seriously ill children's understandings of illness and death, their parents approaches to care and treatment and the children's roles in decision making as well as the implications of the findings for development of clinical guidance.
About the speaker
Myra Bluebond-Langner, PhD, (Hon) FRCPCH, 听is Professor and True Colours Chair in Palliative Care for Children and Young People at University College London, Institute of Child Health. In this capacity she also heads the Louis Dundas Centre for Children's Palliative Care - an academic and clinical partnership involving the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She is also Board of Governors' Professor of Anthropology (emerita) and founder and former director of the Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies. Author of several articles in journals and edited collections; she is perhaps best known for her books: The Private Worlds of Dying Children (Princeton University Press, 1978), In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child (Princeton University Press, 1996) and The Psychosocial Aspects of Cystic Fibrosis (with Denise Angst and Bryan Lask, Arnold and Oxford University Press Publishers, 2001). Myra Bluebond-Langner is the founder and former editor of the Rutgers University Press Book Series in Childhood Studies, the first multi-disciplinary book series in the field. She is associate editor of the British Medical Journal: Supportive and Palliative Care and also currently serves on the editorial boards of: Children and Society, Childhoods Today, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, ETHOS: Journal of the Society of Psychological Anthropology, and Omega: Journal of Death, Dying and Bereavement.
Date and location
8th December, 2016 12-1:30 pm, Seminar room, Wing A, 6th Floor, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7NF.听