Child Life Certification Exam.
Active Coping Style -
Seeking information, support
Avoidant Coping Style -
Restricting their access to information about the event, avoiding discussion.
What is the purpose of play? -
To promote continuing development among patients, normalize medical environments, to facilitate
emotional expression, and enhance children's understanding of medical events.
Stress-point preparation -
Identifies periods of particular difficulty during hospitalization and prepares the child and family for
each by providing information, ops for rehearsal, and emotional support.
What is more effective style of prep? -
Sensory information
Therapeutic -
Relating to or dealing with healing, especially with remedies for disease.
Psychotherapeutic relationships -
Healing referred in CL values speaks to developmental, resilience, and the management of
challenges.
Professional relationships -
Established in connection with the specific profession engaged in by any individual, all professional
relationships may be categorized as clinical or non-clinical.
Clinical relationships -
Within the scope of a health or service profession.
Non-Clinical relationship -
Existing within the scope of the profession.
Supportive relationship -
Advocate for psychosocial coping and adjustment, promote the interest of or the cause of the
individual/family served, factors such as trust, respect, advocacy, and interpersonal warmth are often
included in definition.
3 types of relationships by Varcarolis. -
Friendship (social), Intimate, and Therapeutic (professional).
Stuart and Sundeen- 3 most commonly conceived phases in a therapeutic relationship: -
1. Initiation/orientation phase.
, 2. Working phase.
3. Termination phase.
3 primary theoretical bases for most clinical mental health work: -
1. Phsychoanalytical theory (Freud)
2. Humanist Movement (Rogers)
3. Learning Theory
What is the most important goal in the first phase of forming a therapeutic relationship -
Trust
Trust -
Having confidence in another person, or accepting another person as being true and reliable without
being able to or seeing the need to verify it.
Boundaries -
Limitations or barriers that keep some things in and keep others out.
Peterson and Solomon - 3 ways ways boundaries are established for professionals: -
1. Licensure or certification
2. Development of ethical standards.
3. Implied definitional assumption that professional relationships are to be kept professional, not
personal
Bolig - 5 approaches to CL programming: -
1. Diversion
2. Activity/recreation
3. Child development
4. Therapeutic
5. Comprehensive
Elements of communication -
speaker, listener, message, channel, feedback, and context.
Nonverbal behaviors include: -
facial expressions, posture, gestures, movement, and vocal variations.
Statement of fact -
made only after observation, limited to what is observed, only made by observer, only be made about
the past or present, approach certainty, subject of standards of verifiability.
Statement of inference -
made at any time, go beyond what has been observed, made by anyone, may be made about anytime
(past, present, or future), involve varying degrees of probability, not subject of standards.
Allness error -
The tendency to use absolutes.
Jargon -
Active Coping Style -
Seeking information, support
Avoidant Coping Style -
Restricting their access to information about the event, avoiding discussion.
What is the purpose of play? -
To promote continuing development among patients, normalize medical environments, to facilitate
emotional expression, and enhance children's understanding of medical events.
Stress-point preparation -
Identifies periods of particular difficulty during hospitalization and prepares the child and family for
each by providing information, ops for rehearsal, and emotional support.
What is more effective style of prep? -
Sensory information
Therapeutic -
Relating to or dealing with healing, especially with remedies for disease.
Psychotherapeutic relationships -
Healing referred in CL values speaks to developmental, resilience, and the management of
challenges.
Professional relationships -
Established in connection with the specific profession engaged in by any individual, all professional
relationships may be categorized as clinical or non-clinical.
Clinical relationships -
Within the scope of a health or service profession.
Non-Clinical relationship -
Existing within the scope of the profession.
Supportive relationship -
Advocate for psychosocial coping and adjustment, promote the interest of or the cause of the
individual/family served, factors such as trust, respect, advocacy, and interpersonal warmth are often
included in definition.
3 types of relationships by Varcarolis. -
Friendship (social), Intimate, and Therapeutic (professional).
Stuart and Sundeen- 3 most commonly conceived phases in a therapeutic relationship: -
1. Initiation/orientation phase.
, 2. Working phase.
3. Termination phase.
3 primary theoretical bases for most clinical mental health work: -
1. Phsychoanalytical theory (Freud)
2. Humanist Movement (Rogers)
3. Learning Theory
What is the most important goal in the first phase of forming a therapeutic relationship -
Trust
Trust -
Having confidence in another person, or accepting another person as being true and reliable without
being able to or seeing the need to verify it.
Boundaries -
Limitations or barriers that keep some things in and keep others out.
Peterson and Solomon - 3 ways ways boundaries are established for professionals: -
1. Licensure or certification
2. Development of ethical standards.
3. Implied definitional assumption that professional relationships are to be kept professional, not
personal
Bolig - 5 approaches to CL programming: -
1. Diversion
2. Activity/recreation
3. Child development
4. Therapeutic
5. Comprehensive
Elements of communication -
speaker, listener, message, channel, feedback, and context.
Nonverbal behaviors include: -
facial expressions, posture, gestures, movement, and vocal variations.
Statement of fact -
made only after observation, limited to what is observed, only made by observer, only be made about
the past or present, approach certainty, subject of standards of verifiability.
Statement of inference -
made at any time, go beyond what has been observed, made by anyone, may be made about anytime
(past, present, or future), involve varying degrees of probability, not subject of standards.
Allness error -
The tendency to use absolutes.
Jargon -
