A Toolkit For Counselors and Helping Professionals On Grief From The Dougy Center
If you know a child who has experienced the death of someone, here are a few basic principles to keep in mind. Speak openly and honestly about death; Listen; Be open to different ways of grieving; Offer choices; Talk about and remember the person who died; Provide consistency and routine; Know that grief doesn't have a schedule; Get extra help if needed; Find sources of support for yourself. (From The Dougy Center's resource on "Ten Tips For Supporting Children Who Are Grieving.")
A Toolkit For School Personnel On Grief From The Dougy Center
As a teacher, school counselor, support staff, or administrator, it’s likely you’ll work with a student grieving the death of a family member or friend. Supporting anyone in grief can be intimidating, and especially so when it’s a child or teen. Drawn from the insights of grieving students, the Dougy Center has compiled these tips for supporting students after a death. This toolkit offers school personnel a toolkit on poems, activities, videos, articles, podcasts and tipsheets related to death, dying and grief.
A Comprehensive List Of Resources For Children, Families and Communities On Grief, Death and Dying From The Dougy Center
About this resource: Below are toolkits from the Dougy Center on grief, death and dying, and are tailored for kids, teens, families, caregivers and helping professionals. Click the titles to discover each toolkit. Links to each toolkit are also available at the bottom of this page. Toolkits are available in Spanish. Individual toolkits are also searchable separately on the Death, Dying and End of Life's library.
Serious Illness And Palliative Care From The Better Care Playbook
Adults with serious illness have one or more conditions, such as cancer or dementia, that cause health and functional decline and, over time, eventually lead to death. People with serious illness require effective patient-clinician communication about quality of life, goals of care, and advance directives, along with access to palliative and hospice care that is well coordinated with medical care, behavioral health, and personal care needs.
The Bright Ideas TBI Camp: fostering innovation in interprofessional education and collaborative practice for traumatic brain injury by students in rehabilitation professions
This report describes an innovative interprofessional education collaborative practice (IPCP) experience for rehabilitation professions students using a unique on-campus camp model through a community-academic partnership. Throughout the three-day camp, known as the Bright Ideas TBI Camp, interprofessional student groups deliver tailored health and wellness services to individuals with disabilities due to traumatic brain injury and their caregivers.
Complexity in the context of palliative care: a systematic review
People receiving palliative care have complex, wide-ranging, and changing needs, not just physical distress, but also psychosocial, practical, and spiritual. Influences on complexity in palliative care are different among healthcare providers and may depend on diverse aspects of the patient's condition, time, and environment. Therefore, this study aimed to integrate and describe the perspective of complexity in palliative care.
Patient and Family Experiences (Negative and Positive) with Health Care Teams
These short video snippets capture patients and/or family members describing their experiences with health care services representing a range of specialty care. The first series illustrates the negative impact when care providers are not communicating with each other to coordinate care. The second video series describe the positive impact of interprofessional collaborative practice where professionals are communicating and collaborating to optimize care.
Communication Access-- Better Health Starts with Effective Communication
People with communication disabilities often find it hard to get the information and communication supports they need to fully access health services and programs. This can lead to less-than-ideal outcomes for everyone involved. As a health professional, learn how you can support effective communication access to promote equitable care and better health. ACCESS is a framework of six core principles to help lessen communication barriers. Always check your patient's communication needs before starting care using the ACCESS tool.
Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPE/IPP) Case Studies
Access more than 25 case studies involving real-life teams, patients, students, and families. These cases feature examples of successful IPP collaboration across a variety of settings with a variety of health and education professionals and community members. More than 35 different professions are represented among the interprofessional teams and cases thus providing a rich resource for preprofessional student learning as well as the professional development of workforce teams.
Trauma-Informed Caring for Native American Patients and Communities Prioritizes Healing, Not Management
Addressing intergenerational trauma remains a public health priority in Native American (NA) communities. Clinicians working with NA patients must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider's perspective on NA past and present life in order to earn trust. This case considers an NA adolescent suffering from mental distress, possible substance use, and multiple traumas.
