The capacity of children to act as agents is being increasingly recognized and has important
implications for health research and practice. However, there are various discrepancies in …

Previous studies on doctor‐parent‐child communication at the general practitioner's surgery
showed that the GP and the parent differ fundamentally in the way they enable or constrain …

Background: Effective communication is a cornerstone of quality paediatric palliative care.
Families report struggling, however, to know what to discuss, with whom, and when …

Problem: Difficult conversations and decisions are an unfortunate reality for parents caring
for children facing life threatening conditions. Confusing, inadequate, and inconsistent …

This article examines how older paediatric patients (10–18 years) initiate different actions,
including the solicitation of parental assistance, to accomplish the task of answering …

There is a growing literature on how children are heard in the field of child welfare, often with
indications of how difficult it may be to fulfil their right to be heard. This article examines …

Background Professional organizations and governments recommend child and adolescent
involvement in cancer treatment decision making (TDM) despite minimal evidence that …

Living with challenging family circumstances has been described as 'living with an elephant
in the room'where everyone pretends it is not there and no one wants to talk about it (Kroll …

In research into the involvement of children in decision-making about their health and
treatment there is an over-reliance on interviews (with children, parents and doctors) as a …

Through discourse analysis of transcribed interviews conducted over the phone with parents
whose child died in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)(n= 51), this study uncovers …