Child Life Certification Exam 2025/2026
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A CLS who encourages patients and families to be experts of their own family
practice is building the foundation for - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔culturally competent and
spiritually supportive care
As members of the healthcare team, how do child life specialists accurately and
consistently share assessment information and care plans with other healthcare
team members? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔documentation
Components of assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔information from the family,
information from the child, and information from the healthcare team
Kubler-Ross's stages of grief - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔denial, anger, bargaining,
depression, and acceptance
culture shock - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔results when a series of disorienting encounters
occur in which an individual's basic values, beliefs, and patterns of behavior are
challenged by a different set of values, beliefs, and behaviors
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,Cross cultural competency can be demonstrated by - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔managing
culture shock
Various Models of Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Stress Potential Assessment
Process
2. Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatrics (PRAP)
3. Child Life Assessment Intervention Plan (CLAIP)
4. Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)
Stress Potential Assessment Process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- encourages the CLS to
formulate a care plan based on the consideration of 3 categories of information:
healthcare, family, and child variables
- CLS then assigns a stress potential rating (1 to 5)
- draws upon knowledge of child development and family systems functioning
with added healthcare stressors to assign a rating
- developed by Gaynard (1998)
Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatrics (PRAP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- formal
screening tool to assess a patient's risk for coping during a particular intervention
or healthcare encounter
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,- assigns a risk level based on empirical evidence using eight variables that closely
correlate with the potential for negative outcomes during healthcare encounters
Child Life Assessment Intervention Plan (CLAIP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- provides
specific criteria for assessing patients and prioritizing their needs, and delineates
forms of child life intervention that address the identified needs of the individual.
- begins w/ consideration of critical psychosocial variables (9) that have been
found to predict psychological upset in children experiencing healthcare
Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- formal assessment that
has been validated in infant, toddler, and preschool versions, and includes
assessment of multiple domains: cognitive, language, gross motor, fine motor,
social-emotional, self-help, regulatory, and sensory.
- relies heavily on parent report
Documentation of a child life intervention in a patient healthcare record should be
considered - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an extension of the intervention that is necessary to
regard it as complete
Types of coping techniques/strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔sensory, cognitive,
behavioral
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, sensory coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔rely on sound, touch, or movement to
enhance the child's coping capacities
types of sensory coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- positioning (comfort hold,
swaddling)
- movement (rocking or patting)
- soothing touch massage
- thermal regulation (warm blankets or cold packs)
- music
cognitive coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔approaches that include those that
help reframe or refocus thoughts from negative to positive
Types of cognitive coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- conscious choice of
alternate focus (distraction)
- thought stopping self-instruction (self-talk)
- therapeutic storytelling
- intellectualization (information seeking)
- reframing
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A CLS who encourages patients and families to be experts of their own family
practice is building the foundation for - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔culturally competent and
spiritually supportive care
As members of the healthcare team, how do child life specialists accurately and
consistently share assessment information and care plans with other healthcare
team members? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔documentation
Components of assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔information from the family,
information from the child, and information from the healthcare team
Kubler-Ross's stages of grief - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔denial, anger, bargaining,
depression, and acceptance
culture shock - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔results when a series of disorienting encounters
occur in which an individual's basic values, beliefs, and patterns of behavior are
challenged by a different set of values, beliefs, and behaviors
1
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,Cross cultural competency can be demonstrated by - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔managing
culture shock
Various Models of Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Stress Potential Assessment
Process
2. Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatrics (PRAP)
3. Child Life Assessment Intervention Plan (CLAIP)
4. Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)
Stress Potential Assessment Process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- encourages the CLS to
formulate a care plan based on the consideration of 3 categories of information:
healthcare, family, and child variables
- CLS then assigns a stress potential rating (1 to 5)
- draws upon knowledge of child development and family systems functioning
with added healthcare stressors to assign a rating
- developed by Gaynard (1998)
Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatrics (PRAP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- formal
screening tool to assess a patient's risk for coping during a particular intervention
or healthcare encounter
2
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,- assigns a risk level based on empirical evidence using eight variables that closely
correlate with the potential for negative outcomes during healthcare encounters
Child Life Assessment Intervention Plan (CLAIP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- provides
specific criteria for assessing patients and prioritizing their needs, and delineates
forms of child life intervention that address the identified needs of the individual.
- begins w/ consideration of critical psychosocial variables (9) that have been
found to predict psychological upset in children experiencing healthcare
Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- formal assessment that
has been validated in infant, toddler, and preschool versions, and includes
assessment of multiple domains: cognitive, language, gross motor, fine motor,
social-emotional, self-help, regulatory, and sensory.
- relies heavily on parent report
Documentation of a child life intervention in a patient healthcare record should be
considered - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an extension of the intervention that is necessary to
regard it as complete
Types of coping techniques/strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔sensory, cognitive,
behavioral
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, sensory coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔rely on sound, touch, or movement to
enhance the child's coping capacities
types of sensory coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- positioning (comfort hold,
swaddling)
- movement (rocking or patting)
- soothing touch massage
- thermal regulation (warm blankets or cold packs)
- music
cognitive coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔approaches that include those that
help reframe or refocus thoughts from negative to positive
Types of cognitive coping strategies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- conscious choice of
alternate focus (distraction)
- thought stopping self-instruction (self-talk)
- therapeutic storytelling
- intellectualization (information seeking)
- reframing
4
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