The Chojraki Helpbox „Emotional first aid for children and parents” is a toolkit that helps tame and regulate difficult emotions accompanying children in cancer wards and all those around a child – parents, volunteers and hospital staff.
Our goal is for the binder with the stories, the guidebook and additional training to be given to every family whose child is starting or undergoing treatment at the Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology and Transplantation at the Poznań University of Medical Sciences.
The project received funding under the DKMS Foundation Grant.
The section for a child includes therapeutic stories that address the emotions that children face in illness. The subjects of the stories are anger, sadness or fear, but also the need for love and acceptance. At the end of each story, there are worksheets to facilitate conversations about emotions and exercises that a child can do alone or with the help of a caregiver. We developed the games so that they can be played both on a hospital bed and at home. Each story has its own audio version.
The section for parents includes an „Emotional First Aid” guidebook, with tips on how to talk to children about their feelings during treatment and how to understand your own emotions that are often awakened when a child is ill. In addition, we have prepared a short training for parents and volunteers, in which we suggest how to use the stories and activity cards in their work with children, as well as a self-reg training that helps identify sources of excessive and unnecessary stress and look for strategies to recover from difficult situations.
Therapeutic stories for children in the younger children’s ward:
Therapeutic stories for children in the older children’s ward:
Edyta Zarębska, aka Grandma Grunia – author and co-author of children’s books, including Opowieści babci Gruni, Mój pamiętnik, Moje ulubione dobranocki, 365 bajek na dobranoc, 365 bajek na dzień dobry. Audiobooks with her works have been narrated by Anna Dymna, Zbigniew Zamachowski and Katarzyna Stoparczyk. In addition to writing books, she also writes song lyrics and illustrates books. In 2007 she won an honourable mention in the nationwide Astrid Lindgren competition for a book for children and young people, organized by the All of Poland Reads to Kids Foundation.
Patrycja Danielewska – member of the management board, secretary of the Dzieciaki Chojraki Association, organizer of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity finale in Poznań, Ławica Division. In 2022, she won an honourable mention in the Poznań Volunteer of the Year 2022 competition in the individual volunteer category for, among other things, her commitment to helping refugee children with oncological diseases, and their caregivers.
Katarzyna Działa-Pawłowska – psychologist, psychotherapist and psycho-oncologist. In therapy she uses the cognitive-behavioural approach. She uses tools from the existential approach and has been working individually, as well as in groups, with cancer patients and their relatives for more than 20 years, using the Simonton Method.
Magdalena Pytel – psychologist, special needs educator and certified cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist PTTPB (No. 877), graduate of the School of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy at SWPS University under the leadership of Agnieszka Popiel, Ph.D. / Associate Professor and Ewa Pragłowska, Ph.D. Member of the Polish Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (PTTPB). In her therapeutic work, she deals in particular with emotional problems and difficulties in daily functioning with anxiety, as well as mood disorders and traumatic experiences.
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Stowarzyszenie Wspierania Transplantacji
Szpiku i Onkologii Dziecięcej
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