CHILD LIFE EXAM EXAMS SET 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔health care variables - ✔✔Diagnosis, anticipated treatment and procedures,
physical response to illness, injury and treatment, previous health care experiences,
personalities and values of health care professionals involved.
✔✔Bolig - ✔✔Play must be 1. voluntary 2. self-motivated 3. enjoyable and relaxing 4. in
the present 5. self-dominated 6. unpredictable and novel 7. physically and mentally
activating.
✔✔constructive play - ✔✔play that is goal oriented and thoughtful, using materials to
create something
✔✔functional play - ✔✔involves physical movements that may or may not include the
use of objects
✔✔dramatic play - ✔✔focused on use of imagination
✔✔rule-based games - ✔✔recreational activities carried out within the parameters of
special rules
✔✔Parten - ✔✔proposed the following types of play: Unoccupied play, Solitary play,
onlooker play, parallel play, associative play, and cooperative play.
✔✔Matthews' therapeutic play - ✔✔1. accommodate normal development
2. produce a sense of familiarity in an unfamiliar setting.
3. enhance children's understanding of medical experiences
4. produce and expand feelings of self-efficacy, control, and situational mastery
5. improve opportunities for shared communication and individual expression
6. aid children in coping with health and setting restrictions
✔✔problem-focused coping - ✔✔Attempting to alleviate stress directly by focusing on
the stressor
✔✔emotion focused coping - ✔✔efforts directed at managing one's response to the
stressor
✔✔avoidant coping - ✔✔responding to a stressor by ignoring, forgetting, or hiding it
✔✔sensitizers - ✔✔people who cope with health problems and other aversive events by
closely scanning their bodies and environments for information, anticipatory anxiety
, ✔✔age of patient - ✔✔most critical factor associated with a child's vulnerability to the
stresses of hospitalization
✔✔Denver developmental screening test - ✔✔assesses personal-social, fine motor, and
gross motor skills of children under 6 years old
✔✔self-blame - ✔✔children who have experienced trauma or loss need to be monitored
for this
✔✔nondirective medical play - ✔✔adult should follow the child's lead
✔✔Emma Plank - ✔✔Person credited with development of child life role
✔✔Become culturally competent by...... - ✔✔exploring one's own cultural beliefs and
values
✔✔modeling - ✔✔showing children video of other children going through similar surgery
✔✔APIE model - ✔✔assessment, plan, intervention, evaluation
✔✔James Robertson - ✔✔Hired by John Bowlby to observe and document behaviors
and reactions of hospitalized children.
Separation theory: protest, despair and detachment. Developed the file "A Two Year
Old Goes to Hospital"
✔✔Quality Management - ✔✔assure high quality cost effective child life care
✔✔ataxia - ✔✔loss of the ability to coordinate muscular movement
✔✔craniotomy - ✔✔operation of opening the skull
✔✔neutorpenia - ✔✔an abnormal decrease in number of white blood cells
✔✔Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess - ✔✔studied temperament - the combination of
mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person
✔✔How do you monitor the efficacy of behavior interventions in helping children cope
with painful or threatening procedures? - ✔✔emotional distress and coping
effectiveness
✔✔primary function of structured play - ✔✔obtain mastery with objects and roles
associated with healthcare experiences
✔✔According to Bolig a comprehensive child life program includes: - ✔✔socialization
ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔health care variables - ✔✔Diagnosis, anticipated treatment and procedures,
physical response to illness, injury and treatment, previous health care experiences,
personalities and values of health care professionals involved.
✔✔Bolig - ✔✔Play must be 1. voluntary 2. self-motivated 3. enjoyable and relaxing 4. in
the present 5. self-dominated 6. unpredictable and novel 7. physically and mentally
activating.
✔✔constructive play - ✔✔play that is goal oriented and thoughtful, using materials to
create something
✔✔functional play - ✔✔involves physical movements that may or may not include the
use of objects
✔✔dramatic play - ✔✔focused on use of imagination
✔✔rule-based games - ✔✔recreational activities carried out within the parameters of
special rules
✔✔Parten - ✔✔proposed the following types of play: Unoccupied play, Solitary play,
onlooker play, parallel play, associative play, and cooperative play.
✔✔Matthews' therapeutic play - ✔✔1. accommodate normal development
2. produce a sense of familiarity in an unfamiliar setting.
3. enhance children's understanding of medical experiences
4. produce and expand feelings of self-efficacy, control, and situational mastery
5. improve opportunities for shared communication and individual expression
6. aid children in coping with health and setting restrictions
✔✔problem-focused coping - ✔✔Attempting to alleviate stress directly by focusing on
the stressor
✔✔emotion focused coping - ✔✔efforts directed at managing one's response to the
stressor
✔✔avoidant coping - ✔✔responding to a stressor by ignoring, forgetting, or hiding it
✔✔sensitizers - ✔✔people who cope with health problems and other aversive events by
closely scanning their bodies and environments for information, anticipatory anxiety
, ✔✔age of patient - ✔✔most critical factor associated with a child's vulnerability to the
stresses of hospitalization
✔✔Denver developmental screening test - ✔✔assesses personal-social, fine motor, and
gross motor skills of children under 6 years old
✔✔self-blame - ✔✔children who have experienced trauma or loss need to be monitored
for this
✔✔nondirective medical play - ✔✔adult should follow the child's lead
✔✔Emma Plank - ✔✔Person credited with development of child life role
✔✔Become culturally competent by...... - ✔✔exploring one's own cultural beliefs and
values
✔✔modeling - ✔✔showing children video of other children going through similar surgery
✔✔APIE model - ✔✔assessment, plan, intervention, evaluation
✔✔James Robertson - ✔✔Hired by John Bowlby to observe and document behaviors
and reactions of hospitalized children.
Separation theory: protest, despair and detachment. Developed the file "A Two Year
Old Goes to Hospital"
✔✔Quality Management - ✔✔assure high quality cost effective child life care
✔✔ataxia - ✔✔loss of the ability to coordinate muscular movement
✔✔craniotomy - ✔✔operation of opening the skull
✔✔neutorpenia - ✔✔an abnormal decrease in number of white blood cells
✔✔Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess - ✔✔studied temperament - the combination of
mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person
✔✔How do you monitor the efficacy of behavior interventions in helping children cope
with painful or threatening procedures? - ✔✔emotional distress and coping
effectiveness
✔✔primary function of structured play - ✔✔obtain mastery with objects and roles
associated with healthcare experiences
✔✔According to Bolig a comprehensive child life program includes: - ✔✔socialization
