Intro to Child Life Exam 1
What is the APIE Process? -
Assessment
Plan
Intervention
Evaluation
During assessment, what should a ccls ideally be doing? (three key things) -
1.) establishing a trusting relationship (building rapport)
2.) Gathering case information (from healthcare team, the family, and the child)
3.) observing the child and family in different situations
After assessment? -
After careful evaluation of healthcare variables, family variables and child
variables contributing to stress, CCLS assigns stress potential to help plan intervention
Stress Variable matching:
-Anticipated treatment
developmental age
-availability of caretaker
-physical responses to illness
-support systems
-Separation responses
-Number of hospital staff
Hospital staff personality
-previous healthcare experience -
Healthcare variables
-anticipated treatment
-physical responses to illness
-number and hospital staff personality
-previous healthcare
Family variables
-caretaker availability
-outside support systems
-responses to healthcare experiences
Child variables
-Separation responses
-developmental age
-response to current and previous healthcare experiences
-ability to communicate and function
Define Intervention
Which of the following are interventions CCLS's use?
a. procedural support
b. medical play
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, c. bereavement
d. playroom activities
e. stress potential assessment -
Intervention: action taken to improve a stressful or painful situation
all but choice E are used
Evaluation -
Gauging the extent to which the intervention was successful or not
Planning for future action and documentation of intervention into objective terms to
communicate child life goals to rest of healthcare team
Who is a child life specialist? -
child development experts who work to ensure that life remains as normal as
possible for children in healthcare settings. Promote effective coping strategies through play
and advocate for family-centered care. They work collaboratively with other hospital staff
What aspect of hospitalization do child life specialist seek to address? -
the psychosocial aspect of hospitalization
What do child life specialists do? What services do they provide? -
-non medically prepare children for medical procedures using developmentally
appropriate language
-Introduce coping strategies to reduce anxiety and stress effect
-Provide support and distraction during procedures (if necessary)
-Offer opportunities for play and expressive play
-Supporting family-centered care through providing information, advocacy and familial
support
Who helped found the first healthcare play programs in the 1920's? -
Emma Plank "the Play Lady"
Who, when, and where the first child life programs established? -
Emma Plank in Cleveland (1955)
Mary Brooks in Philadelphia (early 1960's)
Association for the Care of Children in hospitals -
1967
When was the child life council formed? What was its' purpose? -
1982.
To establish more guidelines for professionalism and programming
AAP Statement on Child Life Services -
child life should be considered an essential component of quality pediatric
healthcare and is integral to family centered care
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What is the APIE Process? -
Assessment
Plan
Intervention
Evaluation
During assessment, what should a ccls ideally be doing? (three key things) -
1.) establishing a trusting relationship (building rapport)
2.) Gathering case information (from healthcare team, the family, and the child)
3.) observing the child and family in different situations
After assessment? -
After careful evaluation of healthcare variables, family variables and child
variables contributing to stress, CCLS assigns stress potential to help plan intervention
Stress Variable matching:
-Anticipated treatment
developmental age
-availability of caretaker
-physical responses to illness
-support systems
-Separation responses
-Number of hospital staff
Hospital staff personality
-previous healthcare experience -
Healthcare variables
-anticipated treatment
-physical responses to illness
-number and hospital staff personality
-previous healthcare
Family variables
-caretaker availability
-outside support systems
-responses to healthcare experiences
Child variables
-Separation responses
-developmental age
-response to current and previous healthcare experiences
-ability to communicate and function
Define Intervention
Which of the following are interventions CCLS's use?
a. procedural support
b. medical play
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, c. bereavement
d. playroom activities
e. stress potential assessment -
Intervention: action taken to improve a stressful or painful situation
all but choice E are used
Evaluation -
Gauging the extent to which the intervention was successful or not
Planning for future action and documentation of intervention into objective terms to
communicate child life goals to rest of healthcare team
Who is a child life specialist? -
child development experts who work to ensure that life remains as normal as
possible for children in healthcare settings. Promote effective coping strategies through play
and advocate for family-centered care. They work collaboratively with other hospital staff
What aspect of hospitalization do child life specialist seek to address? -
the psychosocial aspect of hospitalization
What do child life specialists do? What services do they provide? -
-non medically prepare children for medical procedures using developmentally
appropriate language
-Introduce coping strategies to reduce anxiety and stress effect
-Provide support and distraction during procedures (if necessary)
-Offer opportunities for play and expressive play
-Supporting family-centered care through providing information, advocacy and familial
support
Who helped found the first healthcare play programs in the 1920's? -
Emma Plank "the Play Lady"
Who, when, and where the first child life programs established? -
Emma Plank in Cleveland (1955)
Mary Brooks in Philadelphia (early 1960's)
Association for the Care of Children in hospitals -
1967
When was the child life council formed? What was its' purpose? -
1982.
To establish more guidelines for professionalism and programming
AAP Statement on Child Life Services -
child life should be considered an essential component of quality pediatric
healthcare and is integral to family centered care
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