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Types of coping techniques/strategies - ✔✔sensory, cognitive, behavioral
sensory coping strategies - ✔✔rely on sound, touch, or movement to enhance the child's
coping capacities
types of sensory coping strategies - ✔✔- positioning (comfort hold, swaddling)
- movement (rocking or patting)
- soothing touch massage
- thermal regulation (warm blankets or cold packs)
- music
cognitive coping strategies - ✔✔approaches that include those that help reframe or refocus
thoughts from negative to positive
Types of cognitive coping strategies - ✔✔- conscious choice of alternate focus (distraction)
- thought stopping self-instruction (self-talk)
- therapeutic storytelling
- intellectualization (information seeking)
- reframing
- spirituality or prayer
- humor
- imagery
- hypnotherapy (magic glove)
,behavioral coping strategies - ✔✔introduce behaviors that are compatible with the
successful completion of the threatening event
Types of behavioral coping strategies - ✔✔- relaxation techniques (deep breathing)
- muscle relaxation
- desensitization (medical play)
- modeling
emotion-focused coping - ✔✔directed toward regulation of one's emotional responses to
potentially stressful circumstance
problem-focused coping - ✔✔efforts directed toward managing or changing the potentially
stressful situation
temperament characteristics/qualities - ✔✔adaptability, irritability, activity level,
emotionality, and fearfulness
characteristics of play - ✔✔1. intrinsically motivated (self-directed)
2. involves attention to means rather than to ends
3. may be nonliteral or symbolic
4. may be free from external rules
5. requires active engagement
Parten's theory of play - ✔✔play described in terms of the level of social interaction involved
Parten's Stages of Play - ✔✔solitary play, onlooker play, parallel play, associative play,
cooperative play
, Piaget's theory of play - ✔✔based on how children utilize play materials
Piaget's stages of play - ✔✔functional play (practice play), constructive play,
dramatic/sociodramatic play, games-with-rules
symbolic play - ✔✔- begins at 18 months - 2 years
- when playing, actively do things that represent personal images of their own experiences
- according to Piaget, is the ability to transform direct sensory data into abstract mental images
When does symbolic play emerge? - ✔✔- 18 to 24 months
- While playing, children actively do things that represent personal images of their own
experiences
pretend play - ✔✔children demonstrate their own views of themselves and others, including
the roles they and the people around them assume
therapeutic play objectives - ✔✔1. to establish rapport
2. to promote observation and collect useful data
3. to interpret behaviors and understand how children are making sense of their healthcare
(stressful) situation
clinical advancement programs - ✔✔- provide opportunities for career development within
child life programs and recognize child life specialists who demonstrate a high level of clinical
skills
- contributes to increased job satisfaction and better staff retention
information provided to volunteers - ✔✔- responsibilities as a volunteer
- age-specific competency information and tips for approaching children and parents
- therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries
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Types of coping techniques/strategies - ✔✔sensory, cognitive, behavioral
sensory coping strategies - ✔✔rely on sound, touch, or movement to enhance the child's
coping capacities
types of sensory coping strategies - ✔✔- positioning (comfort hold, swaddling)
- movement (rocking or patting)
- soothing touch massage
- thermal regulation (warm blankets or cold packs)
- music
cognitive coping strategies - ✔✔approaches that include those that help reframe or refocus
thoughts from negative to positive
Types of cognitive coping strategies - ✔✔- conscious choice of alternate focus (distraction)
- thought stopping self-instruction (self-talk)
- therapeutic storytelling
- intellectualization (information seeking)
- reframing
- spirituality or prayer
- humor
- imagery
- hypnotherapy (magic glove)
,behavioral coping strategies - ✔✔introduce behaviors that are compatible with the
successful completion of the threatening event
Types of behavioral coping strategies - ✔✔- relaxation techniques (deep breathing)
- muscle relaxation
- desensitization (medical play)
- modeling
emotion-focused coping - ✔✔directed toward regulation of one's emotional responses to
potentially stressful circumstance
problem-focused coping - ✔✔efforts directed toward managing or changing the potentially
stressful situation
temperament characteristics/qualities - ✔✔adaptability, irritability, activity level,
emotionality, and fearfulness
characteristics of play - ✔✔1. intrinsically motivated (self-directed)
2. involves attention to means rather than to ends
3. may be nonliteral or symbolic
4. may be free from external rules
5. requires active engagement
Parten's theory of play - ✔✔play described in terms of the level of social interaction involved
Parten's Stages of Play - ✔✔solitary play, onlooker play, parallel play, associative play,
cooperative play
, Piaget's theory of play - ✔✔based on how children utilize play materials
Piaget's stages of play - ✔✔functional play (practice play), constructive play,
dramatic/sociodramatic play, games-with-rules
symbolic play - ✔✔- begins at 18 months - 2 years
- when playing, actively do things that represent personal images of their own experiences
- according to Piaget, is the ability to transform direct sensory data into abstract mental images
When does symbolic play emerge? - ✔✔- 18 to 24 months
- While playing, children actively do things that represent personal images of their own
experiences
pretend play - ✔✔children demonstrate their own views of themselves and others, including
the roles they and the people around them assume
therapeutic play objectives - ✔✔1. to establish rapport
2. to promote observation and collect useful data
3. to interpret behaviors and understand how children are making sense of their healthcare
(stressful) situation
clinical advancement programs - ✔✔- provide opportunities for career development within
child life programs and recognize child life specialists who demonstrate a high level of clinical
skills
- contributes to increased job satisfaction and better staff retention
information provided to volunteers - ✔✔- responsibilities as a volunteer
- age-specific competency information and tips for approaching children and parents
- therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries
