Mar 28, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2020-21 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2020-21 [Archived Catalog]

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CFS 4770 - Professional Practices in Child Life


Students will learn clinical and professional practices required to work in the field of Child Life including, but not limited to: assessment, coping techniques, distraction, education/teaching tools, developmental play, medical play, documentation, therapeutic activities, and assessment tools utilized within the scope of child life.

Requisites: C or better in (CFS 2700 and 2710 and 2980) and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of therapeutic relationships with children and families in health care clinical settings.
  • Students will descibe how to deliver coping and distraction methods necessary in working with hospitalized children.
  • Students will develop an understanding of the appropriate clinical assessment skills necessary in child life work.
  • Students will examine communication in health care child life practice, including methods of medical charting and child life documentation.
  • Students will explore elements of therapeutic medical play.
  • Students will learn and practice medical procedural preparations common in child life work.



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