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Health Care Professionals: After the ABC’s Consider the DEF’s

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Healthcare Providers’ Guide to Traumatic Stress in Ill or Injured Children

– AFTER THE ABCs, CONSIDER THE DEFs –

D

Distress
  • Assess and manage pain
  • Ask about fears and worries
  • Consider grief and loss

E

Emotional Support
  • Who and what does the patient need now?
  • Barriers to mobilizing existing supports?

F

Family
  • Assess parents’ or siblings’ and others’ distress.
  • Gauge family stressors and resources.
  • Address other needs (beyond medical).

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015