Lecture
Parenting at a Challenging Time: Help for parents with cancer
Presenter:
Emily Ach, PhD,
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Stanford
University School of Medicine
This talk will review children and teens understanding of illness from a developmental perspective and address rationale and approaches for talking with kids about a parent’s illness, treatment, and prognosis. The presentation will be based on the Parenting at A Challenging Time program developed in Boston by child development experts with the express goal of improving parent-child communication and promoting resilience when a parent is ill.
Registration required.
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