Your weekly assignment
Over the next week, practise reinforcing your teen’s positive pain coping behaviours and encouraging your teen’s independence.
1. List two pain coping strategies you want to reinforce this week. Take time to pay attention to when your teen uses them, and plan what praise you will give.
2. List one skill you want to encourage your teen to work on to manage their sickle cell disease or their sickle cell disease pain independently. For example, if you want to encourage them to start refilling their own medication, you might teach them how to call in a prescription refill to the pharmacy.
Assignment review
1. What pain coping strategies did your teen use this week and how did you reinforce them with praise?
2. What went well?
3. What could have gone better?
