Session 3: Understanding Cancer

This session seeks to increase children's understanding of different kinds of illnesses, and to address any misconceptions they might have about cancer. After learning basic facts about cancer, and about illnesses in general, group members participate in a discussion of how family life has changed since the illness, and how they feel about those changes.

By means of a drawing and a writing activity participants are given an opportunity to externalize the disease and to redirect their anger from the ill parent to the illness.

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