The Handbook of Child Life
The Handbook of Child Life

Author: Richard H. Thompson

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 0398092125

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Child life is a profession that draws on the insights of history, sociology, anthropology and psychology to serve children and families in many critical stress points in their lives, but especially when they are ill, injured or disabled and encounter the hosts of caregivers and institutions that collaborate to make them well. Children and their families can become overwhelmed by the task of understanding and navigating the healthcare environment and continue to face challenges through their daily encounters. It is the job of child life professionals to provide care and guidance in these negotiations to serve as culture brokers, interpreters of the healthcare apparatus to family and child and the child to medical professionals. Despite the best efforts to provide quality, sensitive psychosocial care to children and their families, they remain vulnerable to lingering aftereffects. The goal of this revised edition is to help prepare child life specialists to deliver the highest level of care to children and families in the context of these changing realities. Each chapter has been substantially revised and two new chapters have been added. This book will be a valuable resource for not only child life specialists but also nurses, occupational and recreational therapists, social workers and other hospital personnel.

Child Life in Hospitals
Child Life in Hospitals

Author: Richard H. Thompson

Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780398044565

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By Richard H. Thompson, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, and Gene Stanford, Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New York. With a Foreword by Jerriann Myers Wilson. Child life services include providing emotional support, structuring therapeutic play programs, psychologically preparing children for medical procedures, enhancing the hospital environment, and acting as the child's and parents' advocate. This book covers them all. It begins by describing the provision of these services in a typical case and by reviewing the relevant literature. The authors then discuss parents' needs and parent involvement, the hospital play program, and ways in which the hospital environment contributes to children's reactions. Equally thorough information is presented on the relationship of child life to other disciplines; supervision of volunteers, students and staff; and the development of a child life program. The text's balance of tools, techniques and guidelines makes it valuable not only to child life specialists, but also to nurses, occupational and recreational therapists, social workers, and other hospital personnel.

Chippewa Child Life and Its Cultural Background
Chippewa Child Life and Its Cultural Background

Author: Mary Inez Hilger

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780873512718

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"In the 1930s anthropologist Sister M. Inez Hilger traveled to nine reservations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan to record traditional Chippewa (Ojibway) methods of raising children. Her intriguing study captures the essential details of Chippewa child life-and provides a comprehensive overview of a fascinating culture. A new introduction by Jean M. O'Brien, assistant professor of history and American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, assesses Hilger's contributions in this book, which was first published in 1951."-- Back cover.

Research Methods for Child Life Specialists
Research Methods for Child Life Specialists

Author: Sarah Daniels

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-03-05

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1527567079

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In today’s evidence-based healthcare culture, child life specialists must demonstrate knowledge and skill not only in clinical care, but also in planning and evaluating the impact of their interventions—yet few resources exist to provide research skills and support for these practitioners. To adequately evaluate, improve, and innovate patient and family outcomes, it is essential that all providers understand the key inquiry pathways of research. Combining clinical examples and skills with candid advice from seasoned child life specialist researchers, this text scaffolds the concept of inquiry into feasible units of action. From identifying a clinical question to assembling a team, designing a project, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting on results, it guides students, professionals, and administrators in actively exploring and improving healthcare outcomes for patients and their families. Case examples from the authors’ own experiences as clinicians and researchers serve to demonstrate how to seamlessly translate clinical skills into those needed for success in research, ensuring that child life specialists remain active contributors to today’s research evidence on the needs of children and families during healthcare encounters.

Julia Child
Julia Child

Author: Laura Shapiro

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1101202939

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Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017) With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation’s culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child’s unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in a World War II spy station to bewildered amateur cook and finally to the Cordon Bleu in Paris, the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially American, right down to her little-known recipe for classic tuna fish casserole, Shapiro’s Julia Child personifies her own most famous lesson: that learning how to cook means learning how to live.

Child Life Exam Secrets Study Guide
Child Life Exam Secrets Study Guide

Author: Child Life Exam Secrets Test Prep

Publisher: Mometrix Media LLC

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609713386

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***Includes Practice Test Questions*** Child Life Exam Secrets helps you ace the Child Life Professional Certification Examination, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive Child Life Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. Child Life Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to Child Life Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; A comprehensive Content review including: Normalization, Dignity of Risk, Competence Motivation Theory, JACHO, Cultural Competence, Caring, Vicarious Play, Emancipated Minor, Negative Event/Positive Outcome, Transactional Stress Model, Sensorimotor Stage, Anticipatory Grief, Mary Salter Ainsworth, Autonomy, Imminent Justice, IDEA, Projective Artwork, End phase Consequences, Association for Play Therapy, Family Resource Center, Fiduciary, American Academy of Pediatrics, Therapeutic Play, Postvention, Advocate, Family-to-Family Support, Industry vs. Inferiority Stage, Coping, Annual Report, NIDCAP, Pediatric Home Health Care, FICA, Bolig, Best Interests, Intervention, Relaxation Response, Center for Health Design, Supplemental Security Income, and much more...

The Pips of Child Life
The Pips of Child Life

Author: Joan C. Turner

Publisher:

Published: 2014-04-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781465241399

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The Pips of Child Life: Early Play Programs in Hospitals

Child Life Beyond the Hospital
Child Life Beyond the Hospital

Author: Melissa Hicks

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780980214505

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The intent of this book is to highlight the ways that child life practice can be delivered in a variety of settings, and to provide readers with a starting point for exploring the endless opportunities open to child life specialists.

Alex
Alex

Author: Frank Deford

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1504007336

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A father’s moving memoir of cystic fibrosis “captures a brave child’s legacy as well as the continuing fight against the genetic disease” (The New York Times). In 1971 a girl named Alex was born with cystic fibrosis, a degenerative genetic lung disease. Although health-care innovations have improved the life span of CF patients tremendously over the last four decades, the illness remains fatal. Given only two years to live by her doctors, the imaginative, excitable, and curious little girl battled through painful and frustrating physical-therapy sessions twice daily, as well as regular hospitalizations, bringing joy to the lives of everyone she touched. Despite her setbacks, brave Alex was determined to live life like a typical girl—going to school, playing with her friends, traveling with her family. Ultimately, however, she succumbed to the disease in 1980 at the age of eight. Award-winning author Frank Deford, celebrated primarily as a sportswriter, was also a budding novelist and biographer at the time of his daughter’s birth. Deford kept a journal of Alex’s courageous stand against the disease, documenting his family’s struggle to cope with and celebrate the daily fight she faced. This book is the result of that journal. Alex relives the events of those eight years: moments as heartwarming as when Alex recorded herself saying “I love you” so her brother could listen to her whenever he wanted, and as heartrending as the young girl’s tragic, dawning realization of her own very tenuous mortality, and her parents’ difficulty in trying to explain why. Though Alex is a sad story, it is also one of hope; her greatest wish was that someday a cure would be found. Deford has written a phenomenal memoir about an extraordinary little girl.

You and Your Anxious Child
You and Your Anxious Child

Author: Anne Marie Albano

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1101600306

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One of the world’s foremost experts on anxiety in children provides a guide to recognizing and alleviating a range of debilitating fears. Anxiety affects more children and teens than any other psychiatric illness, but it’s also the most treatable emotional disorder. Some 25 percent of children and adolescents will suffer an anxiety disorder at several points in their lifetime, resulting in serious problems in their ability to function in school, with peers, and on a general day-to-day basis. A renowned researcher and clinician who has developed groundbreaking, proven coping strategies illuminates a new path to fear-free living for families. You and Your Anxious Child differentiates between separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, and social phobia, and guides parents on when and how to seek intervention. With moving case studies, such as Jon’s, whose mother quit her job because his separation anxiety compelled her to stay with him full-time, this book elucidates the nightmare that families can be living, and helps them understand that they are not alone. Every step of the way, Albano illustrates proven therapies to manage anxiety issues in children while addressing the emotional needs of parents, too. You and Your Anxious Child brings much-needed hope to families, helping them shape a positive new vision of the future.