First Steps Toward Healing: A Childhood Cancer Webinar Series | Patient Centered Care and Trauma Informed Care for Pediatric Patients

Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, with sponsorship from Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation, launched First Steps Towards Healing, a webinar series about childhood cancer. Geared towards children with cancer, their siblings and parents, this webinar series will cover post-traumatic stress disorder, coping, siblings, community resources, medical late effects as well as other topics.

So far, four webinars are available:

Dealing With the Challenges of Childhood Cancer and Treatment: discusses coping strategies for families facing childhood cancer.
Resources for Families Affected by Childhood Cancer: shares the resources available to families facing a cancer diagnosis.
The Sibling Experience: discusses the experience of siblings of a childhood cancer patient, including post-traumatic stress symptoms in siblings, and coping strategies that parents can use to reduce these symptoms in their healthy children.
PTSD and Post-traumatic Growth After Childhood Cancer: explains the ways childhood cancer affects the child, parents and siblings, focusing on the experience of post-traumatic stress symptoms and post-traumatic growth.

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