A Review of Psychosocial Interventions for Children With Chronic Health Conditions

There appear to be a number of successful programs designed to help children and their families adjust to a number of long-term health conditions such as asthma or cancer. However, many of the research methods used to study the effectiveness of these programs may be flawed. Highlights and evaluations of 15 such programs have been presented. These studies could have been more valuable if the researchers had used more participants, defined treatment success more specifically and consistently, and based their interventions on known psychosocial theories.