The session format is based upon our extensive clinical experience and research in working with pediatric patients with fatiguing and painful illnesses.
The CHIRP treatment program has been developed to expose the patient and their parents to a series of exercises and activities that improve awareness of the interaction between illness and symptoms, enhance stress awareness and coping skills, and facilitate increased patient functional independence in both management of recovery, problem-solving and decision making. It was developed from both a careful review of the evidence-based literature on treatment programs for adolescents with chronic physical illness and the authors’ (BC & WK) more than three decades of combined experience in helping children and families improve their quality of life while coping with pediatric illness. CHIRP, the Children’s Health and Illness Recovery Program, is a multidisciplinary family-based treatment program designed to maximize the functioning of teens with chronic illness. Adolescents with chronic, debilitating, fatiguing and/or painful illnesses face challenges that may prove disruptive to their normal physical, psychological and social developmental trajectories.
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