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Dec 15, 2025
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CFS 4280 - Foundations and Theory in Child Life Practice
Provides an overview of the child life specialist profession and its mission and history. The content areas required by the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) for certification are covered, including scope of practice, ethical principles of practice, and child life competencies that inform the profession. Students analyze and understand theory in relation to family structure, family systems, life course theory, psychosocial theory, and other theories relevant to the child life profession.
Requisites: B or better in CFS 4760 and Permission
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 be able to identify the roles and responsibilities child life specialists have in inpatient and outpatient health care settings.
- Students will be able to identify the history of the child life profession and the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP), which oversees the profession.
- Students will be able to apply theory essential in child life practice, including theories of play, psychosocial theory, stress point theory, coping theory, and family systems theory.
- Students will be able to examine and apply the official documents of the ACLP, including the mission, value, and vision statements of the child life profession, to their philosophy of child life practice.
- Students will be able to examine and integrate the core competencies necessary for child life practicums, internships, certification, and practice, to their philosophy of child life practice.
- Students will be able to apply the ethical principles required of the child life profession into real life patient and staff scenarios.
- Students will be able to examine and discuss the ACLP statements on diversity, equity, and inclusion that inform child life practice, through the developing and presenting child life interventions for an underrepresented population in healthcare.
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