By Richard H. Thompson, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, and Gene Stanford, Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New York. With a Foreword by Jerriann Myers Wilson. Child life services include providing emotional support, structuring therapeutic play programs, psychologically preparing children for medical procedures, enhancing the hospital environment, and acting as the child's and parents' advocate. This book covers them all. It begins by describing the provision of these services in a typical case and by reviewing the relevant literature. The authors then discuss parents' needs and parent involvement, the hospital play program, and ways in which the hospital environment contributes to children's reactions. Equally thorough information is presented on the relationship of child life to other disciplines; supervision of volunteers, students and staff; and the development of a child life program. The text's balance of tools, techniques and guidelines makes it valuable not only to child life specialists, but also to nurses, occupational and recreational therapists, social workers, and other hospital personnel.
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This review is from: Child Life in Hospitals: Theory and Practice (Paperback)
If you are going into the Child Life field, I would highly recommend this book. It has a lot of good information and it is beneficial to have for the certification exam.
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The quality of this book was great, but I would have liked to have known before I bought it that the previous owner had highlighted a significant amount of the text. It is somewhat hard for me to read information that is already highlighted, so I would have probably tried to find one that was not highlighted if I had known this. Other than that, the book is in great shape.
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While this book was written in the '80s, it's a critical basic book for those in the Child Life field. It clearly and concisely covers the history of the profession, relevant theories (stress and coping, attachment, play, etc), child development (Piaget, Erikson, Vygotsky, etc), and how they apply to children and families in health care. The books also discusses the crucial aspects of a Child Life program as well as the management of the program and volunteers.The only drawback is that it was written a while ago, and some of the issues have changed slightly (for example, there's no longer quite as much opposition to allow parents to "room in" with their child during hospitalization). However, the book is still an invaluable overview of Child Life, with all the theories and justification for programs, and the nuts and bolts of those programs and what Child Life Specialists do everyday. A MUST read for every student and intern in Child Life, and it's a huge help in studying for the Child Life Certifying Exam. I'd also recommend this to anyone in the pediatric health care field for a psychosocial and family-centered perspective as well as a solid introduction to Child Life services.
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David was an active, engaging four-year-old who lived with his parents and seven-year-old brother, Phillip, in a small second-floor flat a few short blocks from downtown. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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