Publisher's Synopsis
Children and adolescents debilitated by illness and cut off from their school environment (friends, colleagues, teachers and others) find it difficult to maintain the link with school when they return, especially when they have been immersed in the hospital environment for a long time. It is important to emphasise that the measure of time for the student-patient is not the same as the daily life of those outside hospital. Life passes slowly for those who are cut off from social interaction. A week, a fortnight, a month, months? You can't say what the measure is, it's defined by the feeling of exclusion of those in hospital. The intensity of time for the student patient is perceived differently, as they lose contact with their daily lives, abandoned and often due to the seriousness of their illness, visits are restricted.
