BUILD CAPABILITY
Join us in building the confidence to have conversations about emotional health with children and families. Use these resources to build your team’s skills to support the emotional health of patients and families.
These tools and resources were made with you in mind. Look for the “helpful for” tags to identify which resources may be relevant to you as a patient, parent, clinician, training program director, or trainee.
Readiness Checklist
This checklist is designed to help clinical teams assess their readiness to address emotional health during routine care for patients with chronic conditions and their families. Developed and tested with clinicians, the results of the self-assessment will guide where to begin making changes in your practice.
Helpful for: Clinicians, training program directors, and trainees, patients and families
Addressing Emotional Health: A Self-Assessment
These questions will help you evaluate your understanding of emotional health and present example scenarios to help you put learning into practice while caring for patients with chronic conditions and their families. Once complete, compare your answers with the self-assessment key.
Helpful for: Clinicians, training program directors, and trainees
Starting Discussions about Emotional Health: The Normalize-Ask-Pause-Connect Technique
Pediatric Psychologist Erica Sood, PhD, presents her Normalize-Ask-Pause-Connect technique for starting discussions about emotional health with patients and families.
Helpful for: Clinicians, training program directors, and trainees
The Impact of Being Black on Living with a Chronic Condition
The impact of being Black while living with a chronic condition: Inpatient perspectives published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine and calls attention to identified areas of concern for Black patients and parents during hospitalization and discusses actionable strategies for improvement. This publication was based on a panel discussion among three Black parents and a young Black adult who shared their lived experience of being Black, having a chronic condition, and interacting with the healthcare system. In a 9-minute video inspired by this publication, pediatric psychologist Lori Crosby describes actionable strategies for how clinicians can build a safe space for patients and families from disadvantaged populations to share their concerns.
Helpful for: Everyone
Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), in collaboration with experts from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), created this Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention as an educational resource to support pediatric health clinicians and other health professionals in identifying strategies and key partnerships to support youth at risk for suicide.
Helpful for: Physicians
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 2 Activity
The Self-Assessment MOC activity "Emotional Health and Resilience for Patients and Families with Chronic Pediatric Conditions," based on The Roadmap Project, confers 10 MOC Part 2 points and six CME credits when successfully completed.
Helpful for: Physicians
Talking about Emotional Health: Example Conversations
These one-page resources and supplemental videos outline how to discuss emotional health during common touchpoints with patients and families. Each document highlights key components of the discussion, provides sample language, and offers considerations to promote positive interaction. These example conversations are not condition-specific and can be used with individuals who have a variety of chronic conditions.
Helpful for: Clinicians, training program directors, and trainees