More Than Skin Deep – Children and Young People – Parents, Carers & Family
$39.00
This program consists of two guides.
- Supporting your child in hospital.
- Supporting your child at home.
These guides provide parents and carers with strategies to help them support their child, themselves, siblings, and other family members while their child is in hospital and when they return home.
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Description
GUIDE 1 – SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD IN HOSPITAL
The guide contains on-screen information, podcasts, animations, and videos. At the end of the guide there is a downloadable PDF of content covered.
Content
– A message from Professor Fiona Wood.
– Stress following a burn injury.
– The burn experience – 0-5 years, 6-12 years, 13-18 years.
– Providing reassurance.
– The 4S’s – Communicating with your child.
– Helping your child through dressing changes.
– Dressing changes and other procedures.
– How to support your child for surgery.
– Getting information.
– Support from the social worker.
– Seeking practical help.
– Your child’s network.
– Supporting siblings and other family members.
– It’s OK to ask for help.
This Guide will take 45 minutes to view.
GUIDE 2 – SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD AT HOME
The guide contains on-screen information, podcasts, animations, and videos. At the end of the guide there is a downloadable PDF of content covered.
Content
– What to expect when your child goes home.
– Scar management at home.
– Surgical scar management.
– The role of physiotherapy.
– The importance of being physically active and having a good quality of life.
– The role of research.
– Why research? A personal perspective.
– Connecting to your child’s emotions.
– Help and support.
– Back to school.
– Talking with your child.
– Personal experience.
– Helping siblings cope. Looking after yourself.
This Guide will take 30 minutes to view.
The More than Skin Deep learning program supports the vision of the Stan Perron Centre of Excellence in Childhood Burns and is proudly funded by the Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation.
The Fiona Wood Foundation would like to acknowledge the support, knowledge, and the sharing of lived experience by parents, patients, clinicians, and allied health professionals in the development of the More than Skin Deep learning program.
