Healthcare Professionals & Schools

Coastal Coping Offers Individualized Staff Education and Trainings for Healthcare Providers and Schools! Whether your are a nurse, doctor, dentist, OT/PT, other health professional, or a teacher/educator, if you are interested in expanding your knowledge and skillset in reducing medical trauma for children, look no further!

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Coastal Coping will facilitate an initial assessment to learn more about your needs and interests and design a training program specifically for you, your team, or your location. Some examples may include but are not limited to:

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• In-procedure techniques to support children and teens to reduce psychological trauma

• How to build and facilitate a coping plan

• Ways to incorporate therapeutic play to improve coping during healthcare encounters

• Sensory support skill building

• Skills to translate medical jargon into age-appropriate language that kids will understand

• Techniques to support siblings of pediatric patients

• Techniques, skills, and language to support children of adult patients.

• Techniques, skills, and language to support classrooms when a classmate is experiencing a medical crisis

• Techniques, skills, and language to support a child returning to the classroom after hospitalization, illness or injury

• Techniques to support a child in the classroom whose caregiver is hospitalized or is at end-of-life.

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If you have training needs not listed here, please do not hesitate to contact Coastal Coping. If your needs are within our scope of practice, we are happy to facilitate trainings if appropriate. 

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Please contact April@coastalcoping.com or 732-835-8363 to learn more about trainings and pricing.