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.

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.

What Moves the Scalpel? Science, Religion and the Practice of Medicine

Primary Author: Farr A. Curlin, University of Chicago

Video and audio files of a talk Dr. Farlin gave at the Mayo Clinic as part of the Veritas Forum. "In this lecture, Farr Curlin unpacks the way medicine looks beyond science to find forces that motivate care for the sick, direct the application of medical technology, and ground clinical care in an orientation to the patient as person. He suggests that even though religious ideas are rarely made explicit in public and professional discourse about medicine, they are everywhere implicit and operative, necessarily so. In this light, Curlin argues that the time is ripe for clinicians and laypeople to develop practices of medicine that are more fulsomely and self-consciously grounded in and informed by religion."

Health and Spirituality (CME/CEU course)

Primary Author: Anne Harrington, Harvard University

Free online video CME/CEU course provided by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The learning objectives are to understand the range of research traditions today that are investigating the relationship between health and spiritual practice; to understand the various historical roots of these traditions and how they interact in our own time; and to understand the different kinds of challenges-intellectual, ethical, political-raised by this research enterprise.

NOTE: You will need to register with the NCCAM website to view this video and take the course.

Spiritual Assessment in Clinical Practice

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