Pediatric Integrative Therapies

When a child is sick in the hospital, finding ways to help families participate in the healing process can be transforming. Introducing integrative therapies to children and families in ways that are accessible and fun requires taking into account different learning styles, the age of the child, degrees of illness, and time constraints.  These teaching resources can help children, their families and caregivers cope with the physical, mental, and emotional side effects of serious and prolonged illness.

HealthCetera producer Eve Adler interviews integrative nurse Bess Heliker, RNC, MN, CNS NICU Clinical Nurse Specialist and Alexandra Cree, a mother of a child who had leukemia. She learned some of these therapies to support the health and healing of her child.

You can listen to this HealthCetera segment here:

Alexandra Cree & Bess Heliker, RNC, MN, CNS