Child Life Certification Prep Exam Questions to prepare for
national certification
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 - ✔✔✔Confused unintelligible language
Nonreciprocal gaze - ✔✔✔gaze that is not returned
Mutual gaze - ✔✔✔when two people look at each other
Gaze aversion - ✔✔✔When one person looks away from another
Staring - ✔✔✔extended, unwelcome looking at another person
national certification
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 - ✔✔✔Confused unintelligible language
Nonreciprocal gaze - ✔✔✔gaze that is not returned
Mutual gaze - ✔✔✔when two people look at each other
Gaze aversion - ✔✔✔When one person looks away from another
Staring - ✔✔✔extended, unwelcome looking at another person
