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Child Life Certification Exam 2025/2026 – 100 Practice Questions on Therapeutic Play, Coping Styles, Developmental Psychology & Hospitalization Effects

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This document includes 100 well-explained practice questions designed for candidates preparing for the 2025/2026 Child Life Certification Exam. It covers essential topics such as therapeutic and developmental play, coping strategies (active/avoidant), psychosocial support, grief stages, communication, and developmental theories from Piaget, Erikson, and Vygotsky. Ideal for students in Child Life Studies, Pediatric Psychology, Nursing, Education, Social Work, and Healthcare Professions, as well as professionals aiming to become Certified Child Life Specialists (CCLS). Keywords: child life certification, CCLS exam 2025, play therapy, developmental stages, coping strategies, pediatric stress, grief and mourning, Piaget theory, Erikson stages, Vygotsky scaffolding, hospitalization impact, therapeutic relationship, psychosocial assessment, child advocacy, family-centered care

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Child Life Certification Exam 2025/2026
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Active Coping Style - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Seeking information, support


Avoidant Coping Style - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Restricting their access to information

about the event, avoiding discussion.


What is the purpose of play? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To promote continuing

development among patients, normalize medical environments, to facilitate

emotional expression, and enhance children's understanding of medical events.


Stress-point preparation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sensory information


Therapeutic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Relating to or dealing with healing, especially with

remedies for disease.


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,Psychotherapeutic relationships - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Healing referred in CL values

speaks to developmental, resilience, and the management of challenges.


Professional relationships - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Within the scope of a health or service

profession.


Non-Clinical relationship - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing within the scope of the

profession.


Supportive relationship - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Friendship (social),

Intimate, and Therapeutic (professional).

Stuart and Sundeen- 3 most commonly conceived phases in a therapeutic

relationship: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Initiation/orientation phase.



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, 2. Working phase.

3. Termination phase.

3 primary theoretical bases for most clinical mental health work: - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Trust


Trust - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Limitations or barriers that keep some things in and

keep others out.

Peterson and Solomon - 3 ways ways boundaries are established for professionals:

- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Licensure or certification


2. Development of ethical standards.




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