The Emmy Award-winning documentary A LION IN THE HOUSE now offers Educational Video Modules for Health Care Professionals.
The modules sensitively address critical issues of childhood and young adult cancer.
Please click on title for full description, order information, and links to downloadable companion educational curricula.
Project made possible by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
Childhood Cancer Survivorship Stories (Accredited for CE/CME)
What happens after treatment for cancer ends? Jen's and Al's stories illustrate the emotional, educational, physical and cognitive fall-out from childhood cancer and its treatment. It is critical that survivors receive long-term follow-up care as they grow into adulthood. Unfortunately, many survivors do not receive the care they need for reasons including inconsistent access to health care and lack of professional training on the part of some caregivers. Survivors may be unaware about long-term health risks and cognitive changes resulting from their cancer treatment. This module frankly, yet sensitively, illustrates how the young cancer survivor's new needs can be met in a variety of ways.
Prod #: A-ONCLIONSURD, $145.00
Stories of Resilience: Cancer Health Disparities
This LION program shows the enormous burden that cancer puts on any family. It also brings to light the particular impact on families headed by single parents, uninsured or underinsured families, and people in communities where resources are scarce and support is difficult to obtain.
Prod #: A-ONCLIONDESD, $145.00
Pediatric End-of-Life Case Studies
This module presents three real-life stories of children and adolescents fighting cancer and facing end-of-life.
It is designed for use by health care professionals to explore the complexities and challenges of working with families of
young patients who are dying. In each story, the viewer experiences multiple points of view, and a multitude of issues.
A full curriculum accompanies this module, designed with top professionals in the fields of end-of-life, hospice and palliative care.
Prod #: A-ONCLIONENDD, $145.00
Case Studies in Spirituality & Childhood Cancer
The Institute of Medicine defines pediatric palliative care to include
the spiritual needs of a family, with a broad view of spirituality as
the search for meaning and purpose in life and in death. The real-life
stories in this module offer specific, complicated case studies around
issues of spirituality during a pediatric medical crisis. Many
families rely on spiritual resources in times of health-related
crises, especially at end-of-life. Yet the majority of medical
caregivers do not address issues of spirituality with their patients,
with many feeling ill-equipped to do so. This module offers the
insight of several veteran pediatric oncologists around spirituality
issues.
Prod #: A-ONCLIONSPIR, $145.00
Siblings Stories
Created with SuperSibs!, this module tells the stories of several siblings as their brother or sister fights cancer.
As we watch each sibling's story unfold, we witness how it feels to be pushed aside, left in the dark, and forbidden
to speak about the stress and anxiety they face every day. Depression, anger, and a desire to rebel are a few of the
experiences common to these 'shadow survivors.'
Prod #: A-ONCLIONSIB, $145.00
Childhood Cancer & School Issues
School still matters to a child or
adolescent facing cancer. With childhood cancer survival rates now nearing 80%, most young cancer patients will find themselves going back
to school. But will they be accepted and understood by their peers? Academically, will they be months behind? Will the effects of their
treatment interfere with their learning abilities? This module addresses all these questions, and offers education professionals intimate,
real-life case studies of five kids of differing age, race and genders who have walked this road. In short, compelling documentary stories,
we meet four childhood cancer patients and survivors, and one sibling of a patient, and follow their struggles, in some cases years beyond
their actual cancer treatment.
Prod #: A-ONCLIONCHILD, $145.00
Nurse-Patient-Family Relationships in Pediatric Cancer
Some children and teenagers facing childhood cancer lack familial support. Pediatric Oncology nurses often grow close to these young people. But nurses walk a fine line between professional care and taking on the role of a family member, or even a parent. Complex ethical questions are raised in these circumstances. This film tells the story of one charming, troubled teenager, his mother, and his nurse.
Prod #: A-ONCLIONNUR, $145.00
This multiple award-winning movie is an unprecedented look at the cancer journeys of five young people, their families and caregivers over a six-year period. The five stories unfold with intimacy, compassion and honesty as audiences witness their struggles, their despair and their triumphs. Raising many searing and relevant issues prioritized in A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship, the full two-part LION film is now available for educational use.
Prod #: A-ONCLIOND, $399.00
A LION IN THE HOUSE Companion Book
A LION IN THE HOUSE Companion Book
160 pages, 8.5 x 11, softcover, ISBN 1-933197-20-X.
The voices in this book belong to five families who invited award-winning filmmakers Julia
Reichert and Steven Bognar into their lives for six years as their children were being treated
in the pediatric oncology unit at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The
stunning, heartbreaking and heartwarming footage they captured became the documentary A LION IN THE HOUSE, which debuted to fantastic acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival and
went on to be viewed by millions over PBS. In this book, those families reflect on what they
lived through as their children endured the painful treatments that represent the very best
that the scientific world has to offer. Patents, siblings and other relatives revealed to veteran
journalist Margaret A. McGurk their innermost thoughts, their emotional secrets and the
tricks and techniques that helped them to survive, even when their journey ended with the
ultimate loss.
Prod #: A-ONCLIONB, $19.95
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