| Coping with a life-threatening illness
like cancer or a serious blood disorder is an overwhelming challenge
for even the most courageous children and their loved ones. At
Tomorrows Children’s Fund, we understand the enormous strain
these diseases place on families and provide emotional, social and
psychological support to relieve it.
Child Life/Creative Arts Therapy Services
Our Child Life/Creative Arts Therapy team integrates multiple aspects
of children’s creative expressions to help them better understand,
communicate and cope with their illness. Encompassing child life
services, dance/movement therapy, art therapy and music therapy,
this program gives children a non-threatening way to express their
thoughts and feelings from the time of diagnosis through the entire
course of treatment.
Services include:
- Outpatient creative arts therapy groups—featuring art,
music and dance therapy—for children and siblings of all
ages.
- Inpatient creative arts and child life therapy for individuals
and groups.
- Preparation for medical procedures and help with other treatment
related concerns.
- Intensive individual therapy aimed at helping children adjust
throughout the course of treatment.
- Developmentally based creative
arts therapy evaluation.
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