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Caring for the Smallest: Pediatrics

  • Course Author: The Rev. George Handzo, BCC, CSSBB
  • Duration: 35 hours - Access for 6 months
  • Type: Self-Paced
  • Category: Paediatric Spiritual Care
Price:$220

This course, Caring for the Smallest: Pediatrics, provides an introduction to some of the unique issues of providing chaplaincy and spiritual care to children and their families, especially for chaplains and other spiritual care providers who are assigned primarily to adult care settings and only occasionally interact professionally with children.

A pediatrics chaplain at a major academic medical center who completed the course has said: “I love all the resources (especially the charts that made some of the child development stuff more accessible in a quick fashion), and I passed along a few articles to our bereavement coordinator. I also appreciate the quick response to my questions and concerns.”

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

    • Recognize the distinctive aspects of chaplaincy and spiritual care in working with children and their families.

    • Understand the spiritual development of children and review some age-appropriate spiritual interventions.

    • Distinguish the most common spiritual issues involved in pediatric chaplaincy and spiritual care, including how to screen and assess for them.

    • Discuss appropriate interventions to meet the spiritual, religious, cultural, and communication needs of families of pediatric patients.

    • Articulate the major ethical issues that arise in pediatric end of life situations including hospice and palliative care.

    • Recognize and practice the self-care and staff-care needs of a pediatric chaplain or spiritual care provider working in an interdisciplinary team setting.

 

(Price includes GST and fully subsidised student registration fee)

This course was written by The Rev. George Handzo, BCC, CSSBBC

Director of Health Services Research and Quality HealthCare Chaplaincy Network

The Rev. George F. Handzo, BCC, CSSBB, Director of Health Services Research and Quality, oversees projects devoted to the strategic assessment, planning and management of chaplaincy services and to developing the evidence for the efficacy of chaplaincy care. Widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the deployment and practice of professional healthcare chaplaincy, Rev. Handzo has authored or co-authored over fifty chapters and articles on the practice of spiritual care and chaplaincy care and was the co-principal investigator on a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation investigating the contribution of spiritual care to health care. He is a past president of the Association of Professional Chaplains which in 2011 awarded him the Anton Boisen Professional Service award, its highest honor. He serves on the leadership team of the Global Network for Spirituality and Health and on the Distress Guidelines Panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.  The Rev. Handzo is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale University Divinity School. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

  1. Introduction
  2. Spiritual Development in Children
  3. The Spiritual Concerns of Children
  4. Spiritual Care of the Child’s Family
  5. Ethical Issues and Childhood Illness
  6. End of Life Considerations with Children
  7. Staff Care and Self Care
  8. Future Research
  9. References

Aligns with the following Sub-domains in SHA’s Capability Framework for Spiritual Care Practitioners in Health (2020):

    • 1.2 Client engagement

    • 1.3 Perform and deliver

    • 1.4 Monitor and review

    • 3.2 Wellbeing and holistic care

    • 4.1 Ethical and legal practice

    • 4.3 Accountability

*Also aligns with Capability Level 2 (Independent Practice)

Aligns with the following Priorities in the National Model for Spiritual Care in Health:

    • Priority 1: Holistic Person-Centred Care

    • Priority 3: Professionalised Workforce
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