What is a child life specialist
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A child life specialist helps children and families cope with illness and medical procedures. They provide play, education, and emotional support to patients and act as a liaison between patients, families, and medical staff. To become a child life specialist requires a bachelor's degree, courses taught by a certified child life specialist, volunteer hours, an internship with a certified specialist, and passing a certification exam. The document includes artwork from children at a hospital outpatient department showing how child life specialists help patients through difficult experiences.
What is a child life specialist
- 1. What is a Child Life Specialist? By Thrisa Allworth Including illustrations by children from the outpatient department at Memorial Health and a preview of their book.
- 2. What is a Child Life Specialist? Responsibilities: Patient Care Family Care Gaining and Maintaining Professional Knowledge Research Within each of these categories are subcategories.
- 3. Patient/Family Care Acting as a liaison between patients, families and hospital staff. Patient care should include the family: Coping with illness/death Play Intervention
- 4. Gaining and Maintaining Professional Knowledge Play is a childs job Facilitates in development Helps in learning Relieves stress Reduces pain Increases understanding A deep understanding in child development Piaget Erikson Recent studies/data
- 5. Research More research is needed for child life: To help keep it professional To help keep it funded
- 6. How to Become a Child Life Specialist Step 1 Earn a BA/BS in a child related field Step 2 Complete a Child Life Course Taught by a Certified Child Life Specialist Step 3 Complete Volunteer Hours Required by Desired Internship Step 4 Complete an Internship With a Certified Child Life Specialist Step 5 Take the Child Life Specialist Exam to be Certified
- 7. From Their Imagination Art Work by Children at Memorial Health
- 8. Mommy and Me By Brandilen
- 10. By Miracle By Victoria
- 11. All pictures collected from outpatient procedures By Danielle, 4 By Victoria
- 12. they were there for various procedures By Alexa, 4
- 13. including treatments for cancer and other chronic illnesses By Raelyn, 9 By Nasir
- 14. Child Life Specialist were there By anonymous By Jade
- 15. to help them and their families cope... By Joshey, 5
- 16. with issues that sometimes seem bigger than ourselves By Taegin, 6
- 17. and to remind them that the world can be beautiful again. By Megan, 17