Supporting Families and Caregivers

This course takes a deep dive into the challenges families and friends of a patient with serious illness face and how you can care for and support them as a provider, social worker or family friend. Supporting Families and Caregivers especially focuses on the children of a patient with serious illness and their caregiver, and teaches you the best way to empower them to get the support they need. By the end of this course, you will be able to provide critical avenues of support for the people wh

• Describe interventions to support emotions and coping of caregivers
• Conduct basic screening for adjustment in children
• Define caregiver burden and screen for it