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Nov 16, 2024
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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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