Psychological support of children undergoing liver transplantation and their parents: a single-centre experience.

Children undergoing liver transplantation, and their parents, are regularly provided with psychological support by a team of social workers and psychologists in the Children's Hospital of the Medical School Hannover, Germany. We would like to highlight the structure of this psychosocial care and its development since the first liver transplantation in 1978. As most of the stress related to the procedures of transplantation is inevitable, emotional support provided by such a team approach is essential.

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