NattersonJoseph M., and KnudsonAlfred G.Jr., “Observations Concerning Fear of Death in Fatally Ill Children and Their Mothers,”Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol. XXII, November-December 1960, pp. 456–65. For coverage of studies of death including children, see Irving E. Alexander and Arthur M. Alderstein, “Studies in the Psychology of Death,” in Perspectives in Personality Research, Henry P. David and J. C. Brengelmann (eds.), Springer Publishing Co., New York, 1960, pp. 65–92.
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MorrisseyJames R., Children's Adaptation to Fatal Illness in a Family Oriented Hospital Program, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1963 (doctoral dissertation). This dissertation is related to a larger research project: Maurice B. Hamovitch, “Parent Participation in a Hospital Pediatrics Program,” a demonstration project supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Grant #OM419.
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For a description of the program see KnudsonAlfred G.Jr., and NattersonJoseph M., “Practice of Pediatrics: Participation of Parents in the Hospital Care of Fatally Ill Children,”Pediatrics, Vol. XXVI, September 1960, pp. 482–90.
