[Psychological approach in pediatric oncology (author's transl)]

An attempt to describe the procedures with fatally ill children, from a psychotherapeutic point of view is made. Special attention is paid to selecting nursing staff assigned to those children, requiring highly human and professional qualifications. Children with mild or severe psychopathological reactions, and/or their parents, are referred to Psychiatric Services for individual and/or family therapy. At the same time, group therapy is carried with parents. Finally, parents are followed in order to prevent unwanted psychopathological reactions after death of the child.