Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions : A Strengths-Based Approach

**Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions****A Strengths-Based Approach**"Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring of knowledge, from the theoretical to the clinical. The many vignettes and transcriptions immeasurably enrich the reader's understanding of the interventions and their broader applicability."--Barbara M. Sourkes, PhDJohn A. Kriewall and Elizabeth A. Haehl Director of Pediatric Palliative CareLucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford**An important and practical guide to providing compassionate care and support to medically compromised children and their families**__Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A Strengths-Based Approach__presents practical guidance on integrating the latest research into evidence-based practice to ensure the best client care. Edited by a top scholar in the field, this essential resource contains contributions from renowned specialists in various helping fields. Utilizing an inter-professional perspective, helping professionals will draw from the experiences and expertise of a wide range of medical professionals, providing a "window" into their roles, responsibilities, and challenges, offering the most effective approaches for working with this special population of children and their families.Equipping practitioners with the knowledge and skills needed to encourage children's resilience and help them build their emotional strengths, this book uses a caring yet authoritative tone and discusses:The emotional impact of illness on the individual and the familyChild-life practice in hospitalsSchool-based interventions for children and adolescents with medical conditionsHow to meet the spiritual as well as emotional needs of children with chronic and life-threatening illnessWith thoughtful coverage of positive helping approaches that encourage family and individual strengths,__Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A Strengths-Based Approach__is an invaluable resource for social workers, teachers, school counselors, and other mental health and medical professionals who work with medically challenged children and adolescents in every setting. Machine generated contents note: OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE I. Overview and Introduction: Theoretical Framework for Collaborative Practice Chapter 1. When a Young Person's Health Becomes Problematic (Nancy Boyd Webb) Chapter 2. The Emotional Impact of Illness on the Individual and the Family (Cindy Dell Clark) Chapter 3. The Economic, Social, and Cultural Context of Health Care (Virginia Rondero Hernandez) II. HELPING APPROACHES OF PRACTITIONERS IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS Chapter 4. A Behavioral Pediatrician's Perspective on Helping Children Recover from Traumatic Medical Experiences (Joan Lovett) Chapter 5. Child Life Practice in Hospitals (Deborah Vilas) Chapter 6. Working with Families of Medically Challenged Youth (Jennifer Baggerly) Chapter 7. School-based Interventions for Children/Youth with Medical Conditions (Suzanne C. Griffith & Rosemary Doyle) Chapter 8. School Social Work Interventions for Medically Compromised Children and Youth (Linda Openshaw) Chapter 9. Strength-based Group Work with Children (Ariel Allena Botta) Chapter 10. Play and Expressive Therapies with the Medically-Challenged Child/Adolescent (Nancy Boyd Webb) Chapter 11. Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Children with Chronic and Life-Threatening Illness (Paul B. Thayer) III. CHALLENGES AND ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC/ONGOING/RECURRING PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND DISABILITIES Chapter 12. Medical Conditions Present at Birth (Patrick Shannon) Chapter 13. Conditions that Appear During Early Childhood (Roxia Bullock) Chapter 14. Other Conditions that May Occur in Childhood or Adolescence (Carlean Gilbert) IV. ACUTE HEALTH CRISES Chapter 15. Out-Patient Counseling for Children/Youth with Life- Threatening Conditions (Douglas Davies & Nancy Boyd Webb) Chapter 16. Hospital Treatment of Children/Youth with Life-Threatening Conditions (Elaine Meyer) Chapter 17: Helping in the ER After Accidents and Traumatic Injury (Leslie Wind) V. CHALLENGES/GUIDELINES FOR HELPING Chapter 18. The Challenge of Maintaining Hope and Fostering Resiliency: Implications for Youth, Families and Practitioners (Nancy Boyd Webb) APPENDICES Child/Youth/Family-Related and Health-Related Professional Organizations Training Programs and Certificates Related to Helping Medically-Challenged Youth and Families Child/Youth/Family Health-Related Professional Journals Additional Health-Related Resources for Youth and Families.

Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions
A Strengths-Based Approach

"Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring of knowledge, from the theoretical to the clinical. The many vignettes and transcriptions immeasurably enrich the reader's understanding of the interventions and their broader applicability."—Barbara M. Sourkes, PhDJohn A. Kriewall and Elizabeth A. Haehl Director of Pediatric Palliative CareLucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford

An important and practical guide to providing compassionate care and support to medically compromised children and their families

Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A Strengths-Based Approach presents practical guidance on integrating the latest research into evidence-based practice to ensure the best client care. Edited by a top scholar in the field, this essential resource contains contributions from renowned specialists in various helping fields. Utilizing an inter-professional perspective, helping professionals will draw from the experiences and expertise of a wide range of medical professionals, providing a "window" into their roles, responsibilities, and challenges, offering the most effective approaches for working with this special population of children and their families.

Equipping practitioners with the knowledge and skills needed to encourage children's resilience and help them build their emotional strengths, this book uses a caring yet authoritative tone and discusses:

• The emotional impact of illness on the individual and the family
• Child-life practice in hospitals
• School-based interventions for children and adolescents with medical conditions
• How to meet the spiritual as well as emotional needs of children with chronic and life-threatening illness

With thoughtful coverage of positive helping approaches that encourage family and individual strengths, Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A Strengths-Based Approach is an invaluable resource for social workers, teachers, school counselors, and other mental health and medical professionals who work with medically challenged children and adolescents in every setting.

Overview and introduction : theoretical framework for collaborative practice. When a young person's health becomes problematic / Nancy Boyd Webb and Rose A. Bartone ; The emotional impact of a young person's illness on the family / Cindy Dell Clark ; The economic, social, and cultural context of health care / Virginia Rondero Hernandez Helping approaches of practitioners in different settings. A behavioral pediatrician's perspective on helping children recover from traumatic medical experiences / Joan Lovett ; Child life practice in hospitals / Deborah Vilas ; Working with families of medically challenged youth / Jennifer Baggerly ; School-based interventions for children and youth with medical conditions / Suzanne C. Griffith and Rosemary Doyle ; School social work interventions for medically compromised youth and families / Linda Openshaw ; Strengths-based group work with children / Ariel Allena Botta ; Play and expressive therapies with medically challeneged children and adolescents / Nancy Boyd Webb ; Meeting the spiritual needs of children with chronic and life-threatening illness / Paul Thayer Challenges and issues associated with chronic, ongoing, or recurring physical conditions and disabilities. Medical conditions present at birth / Patrick Shannon ; Medical conditions that appear during early childhood / Roxia B. Bullock ; Other conditions that may occur in childhood or develop in adolescence / M. Carlean Gilbert Acute health crises. Outpatient counseling for children and youth with life-threatening conditions / Douglas Davies and Nancy Boyd Webb ; Hospital treatment of children and youth with life-threatening conditions / Elaine C. Meyer ; Helping in the emergency room after accidents and traumatic injury / Leslie H. Wind Challenges and guidelines for helping. The challenge of maintaining hope and fostering resiliency : implications for youth, families, and practitioners / Nancy Boyd Webb. "Many practitioners lack the training to deal competently with acute and chronic health issues presented by their young clients and students. Providing an innovative inter-professional model, Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions provides a multi-disciplinary approach so that practitioners from a diverse range of helping fields, working in hospitals, out-patient clinics, agencies and schools, may be better equipped to foster children's resilience and build on their emotional strengths. This is a vital tool for a broad range of health care professionals, including social workers, school counselors, play therapists, nurses, and many others"--Provided by publisher.