Bereavement care offered by the Pediatric Supportive Care Team in University Hospital Motol, Prague

Sylvie Stretti

Bereavement care is offered by the Pediatric Supportive Care Team in University Hospital Motol to all families where a child cared for by the team has died. Care is offered not only to parents, but also to siblings and other bareaved person, within 13 months of the death of a child patient. The lecture will introduce the method of providing bereavement care by the Motol team, the method of involvement of individual professions and the basic principles of therapeutic work with bereaved people.