This course takes a deep dive into the challenges families and friends of a patient with serious illness face and how you can care for and support them as a provider, social worker or family friend. Supporting Families and Caregivers especially focuses on the children of a patient with serious illness and their caregiver, and teaches you the best way to empower them to get the support they need. By the end of this course, you will be able to provide critical avenues of support for the people who are instrumental to your patients care, wellbeing and quality of life.

Supporting Families and Caregivers

Supporting Families and Caregivers
This course is part of Palliative Care Always Specialization


Instructors: Kavitha Ramchandran
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What you'll learn
Describe several interventions to help with the emotions and coping of being a family member or caregiver of someone with serious illness.
Conduct a basic screen for appropriate adjustment in children.
Define caregiver burden and how to screen for it.
Skills you'll gain
- Caregiving
- Stress Management
- Pediatrics
- Hospice
- Family Support
- Pain Management
- Child Health
- Psychosocial Assessments
- Medical Social Work
- Family Therapy
- Child Development
- Working With Children
- Clinical Assessment
- Patient-centered Care
- Nursing and Patient Care
- Patient Education and Support
- Patient Advocacy
- Patient Communication
- Parent Communication
- Social Work
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