Description

Catherine Coughlin, MD

Emergency Medicine Fellow
Division of Emergency Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital

 

Daniel O’Meara, MD

Pediatrics Resident
Boston Combined Residency Program
Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center

 

Brenna Chase, MD

Chief Resident in Pediatrics
Boston Combined Residency Program, Urban Health and Advocacy Track
Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center

 

Katelin Blackburn, MD

Adolescent Medicine Fellow
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital

    

This video discusses how to distinguish among various types of stress, how stress manifests in the pediatric population, as well as suggesting strategies for families and physicians to implement in order to foster resilience through stressful aspects of life.

This content was created by OPENPediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical education platform for healthcare professionals. Please see www.openpediatrics.org for more information.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. Distinguish among positive, tolerable, and toxic stress.
2. Help families implement strategies to foster resilience, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a brief illustration.

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 0.75 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: