Learn about pain assessment of younger school-age children. By this age, children begin to develop a sense of cause and effect concerning their pain.
Discover the signs of cancer-related pain in children and how cancer-related pain is assessed by the health-care team.
Find out how you can use comfortable positions and distractions with your child to ease pain from needle pokes.
Discover how to assess acute pain in an older child (age six to 12) at home and in medical settings.
Read about pain assessment in babies (from newborns to one year olds). Both behavioral reactions and physical reactions to pain are assessed.
Find out how to assess acute pain in your young child (age two to five) at home and in medical settings.
Learn about play for school-age children staying in the hospital.
Learn about how pain is assessed in toddlers and preschoolers. At this age, children can usually indicate the amount, type, and location of pain.
Discover the CARD system, which offers strategies your child or teen can use to cope with the pain and fear associated with vaccination.
Find out how acute pain is identified and assessed, at home and in medical settings, in children not old enough to speak.
Discover the signs of chronic pain in an older child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
Discover the signs of chronic pain in a young child and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
Learn about the process and goals of pain assessment to provide the information necessary to initiate optimal pain treatment strategies.
Learn about sharing responsibility for diabetes care with your school-aged child, and the impact diabetes management will have on them.
Discover how to use the 3P approach to manage chronic pain in a young child.
Learn about how to talk to your child about how much pain they are feeling and some strategies to help them cope with pain.
Find out how to recognize the signs of chronic pain at home and how chronic pain is assessed in medical settings.
Discover the main signs and symptoms of ADHD in school-aged children and teens.
Learn what happens during a neuropsychological assessment and how you can use the results to help your child.
When you tell your child about the operation depends on your child's age and how anxious you think your child will be. Use the ages on this page as a guideline.
Learn to differentiate between myth and truth concerning children's pain. There are many common misconceptions of pain that should be dispelled.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Find out how you can use the 3Ps of pain management to support your older child (age six to 12).
Find out how you can use effective parenting strategies to support the 3Ps of pain management for your older child with chronic pain.
Learn about the factors that affect pain assessment such as our emotions, behaviour and cultural attitudes to pain.
