The Coping Toolbox: What Every Parent and Healthcare Provider Should Know to Reduce Pain and Fear
Dr. Jody Thomas breaks down the way to prevent and manage needle fear in kids on The Coping Toolbox podcast.
About This Resource
This wonderful podcast by The Coping Toolbox enlists the help of Dr. Jody Thomas, Clinical Psychologist and Founder & CEO of the Meg Foundation for Pain to provide parents and providers with helpful, evidence-based skills to help reduce needle pain and fear in children. Don’t be afraid to listen along and take notes…this is a good one!
Book
Provider ToolKit
This interactive eBook makes it easy to learn all the ways our free pain management resources can be used to make life easier for you and your patients.
Digital Tool
Pain Champions Guide for Parents
Learn all you need to know about how to manage needle pain and anxiety through this interactive tech tool.
Digital Tool
SuperMeg Poke Planner
Have no fear, SuperMeg is here! This interactive tech helps your child create a plan for being more calm and comfortable during needle pokes.
Downloads
Comfort Positioning Guide
Learn comfort positions that allow you to calm and comfort your child while keeping them safe!
A Note About Keeping This Free
Good pain care should be a right, not a privilege.
We’ve spent our careers treating pain and medical anxiety, and we know that comfort and control come from putting the power where it belongs: in your hands. Everything here is free and open source by design. No parent should have to pay to learn how to get their child through a vaccine or a bad headache. No provider should have to hunt for what they need to do their job well. Hundreds of thousands of people have used Meg tools, and not one of them has ever been asked to pay.
But free still costs something.
We rely on the generosity of people like you to keep it that way. It takes about 1 in 30 of us, each giving $15 a month, to keep these tools available for free. If they helped you and you’re able, $15 a month keeps these resources available the next time you or another family need them.
Thanks for being here. Whether you are able to give or not, I’m so grateful a kid somewhere has you in their corner.
— Dr. Jody, Founder and CEO
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