Child LifeExam Review 2024
AAP statement ** answer ** chid life services should be considered an essential
component of quality pediatric health care and are integral to family-centered care and
best practice models of health care delivery for children
who is a child life specialist? ** answer ** someone who works in a hospital/other
medical settings who focuses on the psychosocial aspect of hospitalization and uses
play and other things as tools to help reduce stress and enable patients and families in
coping with the health care experience
CL history ** answer ** -1920s and 1930s there were early hospital play programs
-founder of child like was Emma Plank
-association for the care of children in hospitals was started in 1967
-Child Life Council was founded in 1982 to establish more guidelines
APIE ** answer ** -CLS go through this process to come up with the correct
intervention for each individual patient and family
-Assessment, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation
play and normalcy ** answer ** play is used by children as a means of reducing
anxiety produced by stressful conditions, medical play or health care play allows
children to cope with feelings and exert control over their experiences
psychological preparation ** answer ** preparing children for hospitalizations, clinic
visits, surgeries, and diagnostic procedures, helps reduce emotional disturbance,
stress, and anxiety, enables the child to plan and rehearse coping strategies
key elements of prep ** answer ** 1. developmentally appropriate info
2. encouragement of question and emotional expression
3. formation of a trusting relationship with a health care professional
family support ** answer ** child life involves education and support of family
members, including siblings, helps to facilitate family coping with the adjustment to the
child's illness, siblings need info and support to comprehend illness via therapeutic play
and education
health care environment ** answer ** ongoing effort to justify the cost of child life
services, child life can help transition children back home, school and into the
community, there are support groups, camps, hospice, child care and other important
things children and families need to cope and regain their lives
play ** answer ** play can help meet children ongoing developmental needs, help
children cope with the unfamiliar hospital environment
, increase children understanding of their hospitalization and treatment, promote a sene
of control, mystery, and positive self concept, facilitate self-expression, and meet
children's need to cope with separation and deprivation
social development of play ** answer ** children explore potential friendships through
play, gain interaction skills, cooperation, problem solving skills, ETC...
how can a CLS use play ** answer ** functional play, constructive play, symbolic play,
games with rules, can help with stress, anxiety and other issues the child is having,
used for developing, competence skills, helps deal with behaviors and concerns
true play criteria ** answer ** -intrinsic motivation
-orientation to means rather than ends
-internal rather than external locus of control
-noninstrumental rather than instrumental actions
-freedom from externally imposed rules and expectations
-active engagement
toys for infants ** answer ** crib mobiles, mirrors, cardboard books, rattles, balls,
nesting and stacking toys, music box, teething rings
toys for toddlers ** answer ** push and pull toys, riding toys, small blocks, nesting
blocks, shape sorters, toy cars
toys for pre-school ** answer ** dress up, housekeeping materials, dolls, toy cars,
books, construction paper and crayons, balls, puzzles, music makers, miniature people,
board games, play kitchen
toys for school age ** answer ** construction paper and crayons, puppets, word
games, card or board games, organized group games, play-doh, dolls, puzzles,
advanced art projects
toys for teens ** answer ** arts and crafts, journals, games (w peers), movies, music,
puzzles
hannahs gift legacy ** answer ** hospital: holding baby, wearing shoes during surgery,
asking doctors names, made doctors do their job differently
mother: life is not about how long you live but how you live
sisters: the box of clothes that the girls wore of hannahs stuff. they loved hannah
without even knowing her, wearing random clothes to dance class bc of hannahs red
shoes
father: taught him you can't fix everything, thinking about family more than work.
communicating with children better
brother: more mature than other kids his age, more empathy for others. he talks to her
and gets support and comfort from her and pics of her
AAP statement ** answer ** chid life services should be considered an essential
component of quality pediatric health care and are integral to family-centered care and
best practice models of health care delivery for children
who is a child life specialist? ** answer ** someone who works in a hospital/other
medical settings who focuses on the psychosocial aspect of hospitalization and uses
play and other things as tools to help reduce stress and enable patients and families in
coping with the health care experience
CL history ** answer ** -1920s and 1930s there were early hospital play programs
-founder of child like was Emma Plank
-association for the care of children in hospitals was started in 1967
-Child Life Council was founded in 1982 to establish more guidelines
APIE ** answer ** -CLS go through this process to come up with the correct
intervention for each individual patient and family
-Assessment, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation
play and normalcy ** answer ** play is used by children as a means of reducing
anxiety produced by stressful conditions, medical play or health care play allows
children to cope with feelings and exert control over their experiences
psychological preparation ** answer ** preparing children for hospitalizations, clinic
visits, surgeries, and diagnostic procedures, helps reduce emotional disturbance,
stress, and anxiety, enables the child to plan and rehearse coping strategies
key elements of prep ** answer ** 1. developmentally appropriate info
2. encouragement of question and emotional expression
3. formation of a trusting relationship with a health care professional
family support ** answer ** child life involves education and support of family
members, including siblings, helps to facilitate family coping with the adjustment to the
child's illness, siblings need info and support to comprehend illness via therapeutic play
and education
health care environment ** answer ** ongoing effort to justify the cost of child life
services, child life can help transition children back home, school and into the
community, there are support groups, camps, hospice, child care and other important
things children and families need to cope and regain their lives
play ** answer ** play can help meet children ongoing developmental needs, help
children cope with the unfamiliar hospital environment
, increase children understanding of their hospitalization and treatment, promote a sene
of control, mystery, and positive self concept, facilitate self-expression, and meet
children's need to cope with separation and deprivation
social development of play ** answer ** children explore potential friendships through
play, gain interaction skills, cooperation, problem solving skills, ETC...
how can a CLS use play ** answer ** functional play, constructive play, symbolic play,
games with rules, can help with stress, anxiety and other issues the child is having,
used for developing, competence skills, helps deal with behaviors and concerns
true play criteria ** answer ** -intrinsic motivation
-orientation to means rather than ends
-internal rather than external locus of control
-noninstrumental rather than instrumental actions
-freedom from externally imposed rules and expectations
-active engagement
toys for infants ** answer ** crib mobiles, mirrors, cardboard books, rattles, balls,
nesting and stacking toys, music box, teething rings
toys for toddlers ** answer ** push and pull toys, riding toys, small blocks, nesting
blocks, shape sorters, toy cars
toys for pre-school ** answer ** dress up, housekeeping materials, dolls, toy cars,
books, construction paper and crayons, balls, puzzles, music makers, miniature people,
board games, play kitchen
toys for school age ** answer ** construction paper and crayons, puppets, word
games, card or board games, organized group games, play-doh, dolls, puzzles,
advanced art projects
toys for teens ** answer ** arts and crafts, journals, games (w peers), movies, music,
puzzles
hannahs gift legacy ** answer ** hospital: holding baby, wearing shoes during surgery,
asking doctors names, made doctors do their job differently
mother: life is not about how long you live but how you live
sisters: the box of clothes that the girls wore of hannahs stuff. they loved hannah
without even knowing her, wearing random clothes to dance class bc of hannahs red
shoes
father: taught him you can't fix everything, thinking about family more than work.
communicating with children better
brother: more mature than other kids his age, more empathy for others. he talks to her
and gets support and comfort from her and pics of her
