Counselling

The Foundation endeavours to provide the best of counselling service to the child cancer patients and families. Adequate counselling can help the patient and family to cope with the stress brought about by cancer and sustains them through different stages of the disease. It supports them to make the many adjustments along the way, so that the family, as a whole, may grow and develop in spite of the long-term illness.

Counselling is given by our professional team to both in-patients and out-patients, individually and as a family, in the hospitals and at the Foundation's Family Service Centre, by telephone, or by visits to the home.

In-depth counselling and psychotherapy for patients and family members suffering from more severe mental distress are given by our clinical psychologist.

Patients who have undergone bone marrow transplantation and their families constitute a special group who need particular attention in counselling owing to the effects of long-term isolation and to the much greater physical discomfort suffered under the treatment. This group receive intensive service from our entire professional team. Special counselling service is also provided for families whose children suffered from relapse or died.

In order to improve the quality of our services, the Foundation's professional staff are constantly updated on the art of providing services. They regularly attend courses and workshops conducted by local and overseas specialists on childhood cancer and on all aspects of patient service.