A Lion in the House DVD Modules for Health Care Education

Primary Author: A Lion in the House, Community Media Productions, Inc.

A compelling set of teaching modules is available from the Emmy Award-winning documentary about children with cancer, A LION IN THE HOUSE. Based on real-life case studies, where things do not always go so well, the stories offer a forum to consider and discuss approaches to helping families navigate life and death issues related to cancer.

The Case Studies in Spirituality and Childhood Cancer Module offers specific, complicated case studies around issues of spirituality during a pediatric medical crisis. The Institute of Medicine defines pediatric palliative care to include the spiritual needs of a family, with a broad view of spirituality as the search for meaning and purpose in life and in death. Many families rely on spiritual resources in times of health-related crises, especially at end-of-life. Yet the majority of medical caregivers do not address issues of spirituality with their patients, with many feeling ill-equipped to do so. This module offers the insight of several veteran pediatric oncologists around spirituality issues.

-Each DVD module contains mini movies shot over a course of six years, competencies & objectives, discussion questions, a recommended resource list, and a PowerPoint presentation.

A Lion in the House SuperSibs Clips

Primary Author: SuperSibs and A Lion in the House

The Sibling Stories video clips and curriculum are free online through SuperSibs! http://www.supersibs.org

With major support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and SuperSibs! - filmmakers, Steven Bognar and Julia have responded to the interest from health care providers and educators to have shorter clips available for classroom and in-service education, awareness and trainings to promote greater understanding of the challenges facing pediatric patients, their siblings and their families.

Each targeted educational module comes with unique learning objectives, discussion questions and take-home points. The modules have been designed with input from a team of top experts in their respective fields, who looked at draft after draft to help us refine and improve them. They are for many audiences - medical and nursing students, residents, fellows, nurses, social workers, child life specialists, teachers, spiritual leaders, organization directors and program managers and others.

New Medicine Educational Training Clips

Primary Author: The Bravewell Collaborative

Six 5-minute training videos that address the patient-provider relationship and the importance of integrative medicine. The videos use footage filmed for The New Medicine and can be viewed on the website or downloaded as Quicktime files. The titles of the videos are:

- Being Ill is a Transformative Experience
- A Patients Sense of Abandonment
- Every Patient Comes to a Doctor for One Thing
- Listening to the Story is Critical
- Maeves Story: One Patients Experience with the Wrong Doctor
- Maeves Story: The Resolution

Spiritual Assessment in Clinical Practice

Primary Author: Christina M Puchalski, George Washington University Medical Center

Spirituality and Health in Late Life

Primary Author: Michael Rabow, UCSF Medical Center

One hour video of Dr. Rabow discussing issues related to spirituality in health late in life and at the end of life. He discusses definitions of spirituality, the evidence about the relationship between spirituality and health, spiritual issues late in life, and the physician-patient relationship.

From the series: "UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public"