Children with cancer are living longer than ever before and their care and aftercare in the hospital and school has yet to meet the current standards. Team communication, a consultative program designed by an occupational therapist, is intended to bring together the family, the child, and members of the child with cancer’s interdisciplinary team in the hospital and school settings. This team is responsible for collaboratively developing a plan of care for the child to transition from the hospital to home and school settings. Using the Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT), the interdisciplinary team members will address communication and its relation to the seven axioms of URT, to gain practical skills for collaboration. Through the education and training efforts by an occupational therapist (OT), the interdisciplinary team will learn to use their similarities to relate to one another in a way they had not been able to do before. The consultative program is intended to increase collaboration and communication for the interdisciplinary team (School team, hospital team, caregivers and child) to increase the quality of life (QOL) of the child and their family in their return to school so they may be able to gain academic occupational success physically, cognitively, socially and emotionally in relation to their same-aged peers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/46619 |
| Date | 25 August 2023 |
| Creators | Gordon, Jennifer |
| Contributors | Doyle, Nancy |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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