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How Are You Doing?: Supporting Family Resilience

Ages Prenatal - 24

Chronic illness profoundly affects every person in a family, and can often cause stress and distress. Healthcare providers and families can work together to make sure the family needs are recognized and supported, so that families can thrive. These short videos from the American Board of Pediatrics helps to start that healing process.

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The power of "How are you doing?"

An introduction to the Roadmap project, and the power of the simple question "How Are You Doing?"

Communicating a new diagnosis

Strategies for communicating a new diagnosis with parents of young children.

Talking with adolescents about mental health. and chronic conditions

A provider demonstrates how to bring up mental health when treating a chronically-ill adolescent.

Talking with patients about the mental cost of chronic illness

Advice on how to discuss mental health in chronic illness.

Bringing up emotional health with established patients

A provider addresses how to broach the topic of emotional health with established patient families.

Overcoming the hurdles of discussing emotional health

Dr. Erica Sood describes how cardiologists can overcome the barriers to discussion emotional health.

Supporting the emotional health of Black families with chronic illness

Experts guide providers in supporting the mental health of Black families who have chronic pediatric illnesses.

Developmental care is best when it is local. Families local to Boston can receive care from the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program (CNP). Families from other regions can use the link below to find their local care team.

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