child life presentation
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• A Child Life Specialist is a professional who is specially trained to help children and their families understand and manage challenging life events and stressful healthcare experiences (childlife).
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• Focus on the emotional and developmental needs of the child or teen– Specialist in typical development
• Therapeutic Play– Developmentally appropriate
explanations– Medical interpreter
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• Provide procedural preparation– Emotional coping w/ hospital experience– Psychosocial needs
• Describe what the patient will experience (see, smell, hear, taste, feel, general time frame things will take place)
• Talk with siblings and family to sensitize the situation
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• Work of Childhood
• Children learn through play what others cannot teach them
• Intellectually stimulates the child
• Provides feedback
• Means of physical activity and education
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• Many children have misconceptions about procedures
• Purpose is to soothe the child’s anxiety
• Use a doll as a “Patient”
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• Use of play to distract the child from a procedure
• Different for children depending upon age
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• Minimum 10 Child Dev. Courses/ Family Life
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree– Masters degree required by 2022
• Minimum 1 course taught by CCLS
• Internship requirement– -Practicum preferred, not yet required
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• Volunteer work:– Hospital with Child Life Dept. (100 hours)– Grief and Loss Center
• Death and Dying/ Grief and Loss
• Certification Test
• Optional:– Foreign language– Medical terminology
• The more experience you can get, the better off you will be
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Canvas Art Expression Project
• Fifteen (15) patients and siblings participated in a project designed to encourage grief and therapeutic relief through art
• 3 weeks to collect portraits• Final product was an art collage
displayed of the artists’ work
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Sources• (2014). What is a Child Life Specialist? Child Life Council. Retrieved
on December 4, 2014. http://www.childlife.org/The%20Child%20Life%20Profession/
• (2014). Advanced Degree Requirement Overview. Child Life Council. Retrieved on December 1, 2014. http://www.childlife.org/Certification/AdvancedDegree2022/index.cfm
Thomas, C. C., Thompson, R. (2009). The Handbook of Child Life: A Guide for Pediatric Psychosocial Care. Pp. 143-145, 160-172. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, LTD: Springfield, Illinois
• Interview with Brickner, T. October 5, 2011.