Child life is a profession that draws on the insights of history, sociology, anthropology and psychology to serve children and families in many critical stress

By Richard H. Thompson, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, and Gene Stanford, Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New York. With a Foreword by Jerriann Myers Wilso

The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals.