Course: Support Worker Resources, Tile: 15: Service related injuries or medical conditions

15: Service related injuries or medical conditions

15: Service related injuries or medical conditions
- Coping with the initial news
- Changes to one's identity
- Explaining injuries to children
- Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
- Establishing new family routies
- Fostering children's understanding
- Practical activities and supports
- Injured or ill ADF members (Defence Members and Family Support: DMFS, formerly DCO)
- Personnel experiencing trauma
- Tapping into a family's protective factors
- Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
- Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
- Support services, and a story from a Legatee involved with Legacy
- Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
- Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
- Animation: Understanding PTS and how it can be passed on to family members
- Personal experiences
  These personal stories have been included to show the types of experiences families work their way through together.
- Personal story: How my life has been impacted by my Dad's service injuries
- Personal story: How a child coped with her father's severe war injuries at different stages of her life
- Educational activities in Children's Resources
  
  To accompany this module, please use the following resources from Children's Resources:
  
  1. And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story eBook and accompanying resources, including a downloadable, printable eBook, audio and video read-along versions, extension teaching activities and printable teaching materials.
  
  Here the CEO of Legacy Club Services NSW talks about Legacy and the book And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story for which he wrote a foreword.
  
  2. In sickness and in health: Sam's story eBook and accompanying resources, including a downloadable, printable eBook, 2 audio and a video read-along version, extension teaching activities and printable teaching materials.
- Resources for parents and family workers
  There is some good research-based information in these online articles. There will also be many tips that are relevant for family workers.
- Coping with traumatic news - an illustrated guide
  
  Although this is about traumatic news in the media, there are many lessons that apply to news closer to home.
- Parenting with a physical disability
  
  If you are parenting with a disability you can get help with daily parenting tasks, and you might be able to get support from the NDIS or local services.
- Looking after yourself
  
  We must look after ourselves before we can look after others.
- Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
  
  Talking about tough topics reassures your child, helps your child understand things, and lets you explain family values.
- Conflict management for parents
  
  Conflict is natural in relationships - the important thing is how you handle it. Constructive conflict management is good for your children and good for your relationship.
- You can't be happy all the time
- Dots with Feelings
- Information and menu
- I found a small error (e.g. link that won't work, typo, grammar, spelling, terminology)
- General feedback for this module
- Audio read-along version of 'In sickness and in health'