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How Do I Tell My Kids?: A Disclosure Booklet About HIV/AIDS in the Family

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
AttachmentSize
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Agency: 
The Teresa Group Child and Family Aid
Sponsor: 
Health Canada
Date: 
1999
Pages: 
60
Summary: 
The booklet is as a resource to help adults and community workers talk to children about HIV/AIDS. The booklet is not a "how to" guide but rather presents information to consider when communicating with children by posing questions like: Why Tell? Why Not Tell? Who To Tell? What to Tell? and When to Tell? The authors include quotes from parents and children throughout the booklet; a section on children's responses; information specific to communicating with teenagers; and how to disclose to other family members and friends. The booklet concludes with a list of other resources and AIDS hotline numbers listed by province.
Keywords: 
AIDS; adolescents; children; community supports; family; families; HIV; HIV/AIDS; parenting; The Teresa Group Child and Family Aid; youth