Moms under stress find ways to cope.

PositionChildren's Cancer - Brief article

Mothers who have children diagnosed with cancer now have a better approach to address and cope with stresses associated with their child's disease. A new certified intervention has proven to be more effective long term compared to other psychological methods. Researchers from Miller Children's Hospital, Long Beach, Calif., report that mothers of newly diagnosed patients are able to decrease their stress level sooner and sustain that level longer with an intervention known as Problem-Solving Skills Training (PSST), also called the Bright Ideas program.

The trial, conducted through the Psychological Adaptation to Childhood Cancer Research Consortium, also shows that Spanish-speaking mothers have the most significant response to the training compared to English- and Arabic-speaking mothers. Three months after their child's initial diagnosis, the stress levels of mothers receiving PSST had decreased twice as much as mothers who had no intervention. In the consortium's study, researchers also evaluated PSST in comparison to reflective listening, a form of one-on-one counseling. Although both...

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