Clinicians

Social Medicine: Not all medicine comes in a bottle

The My Kite will Fly program maintains a strong commitment to comprehensive cancer care for all members of the household from diagnosis and treatments onwards.

There is a need to support the family in meeting physical, psycho-social and allied economic and survival stresses whilst working to remove any obstacles in the way of healing family confusions and concern.

The program will use all data collected in a tactful, sympathetic way to encourage the development of an effective clinical program for managing family changes during parental illness. Children can identify new feelings of anger, distress, worries and fears and by enhancing personal strength and self-understanding, learn to build on available support systems, and eliminate unnecessary life confusions.

It is critical that medical professionals be given tools to correctly guide and nurture families in crisis as they model a new way forward through illness. Multi-disciplinary professionals can reliably treat troubled and or destructive adaptive behavioural patterns with expressive arts in crisis intervention settings such as hospitals and clinical treatment venues.

Promoting healthy coping skills in children and families is important because those patterns - often serial and negative - can continue in adulthood when individuals remain overwhelmed by a legacy of feelings, misunderstood from long ago.