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Child Life Specialists help to make the hospital experience less stressful on children and their families

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    I love the field of Child Life and enjoy having this blog to network, learn, and share information with other people who are already in the field, or interested in pursuing a career in it. I post anything and everything from internships, to tips for parents, and Child Life in the news. I graduated from the University of Utah last year with my BS in Human Development and Family Studies with a Child Life Emphasis. I am currently planning on applying for the Child Life Internship at Primary Children's Medical Center in the fall. For readers who are new to the field, Child Life Specialists help to make the hospital experience a less scary one for children and the entire family. They aim to do this by providing step by step procedural preparations including informing the child (in an age appropriate detail) about what they will hear, smell, touch, taste, and see during a test or surgery. Child Life Specialists also provide developmentally appropriate play, distraction during tests, emotional support to the patient as well as the entire family, sibling education and support, and bereavement support if necessary. If you have any questions, comments, or information you would like to see here, I would love to hear from you! Feel free to contact me at sweetblueair[at]gmail.com

Archive for July 28th, 2008

Jul 28 2008

Cook Children’s Internship

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Cook Children’s in Forth Worth, Texas, offers a Child Life Internship three times a year, consisting of five hundred plus hours. (Atleast 480 hours are required to sit for the Child Life certification exam.) Cook Children’s likes you to have a hundred hours or more of volunteer work in a pediatric setting within a Child Life Program. However, they will consider you if you don’t meet this critera but have a strong background in Child Development or Child Psychology. They accept independent interns. For an internship starting in January of next year, applications will be due September 5th. In addition to the application, Cook Children’s requires you to send the most recent academic transcript you have, a miminum of two recommendation letters, as well as a minimum of four goals you hope to accomplish during your internship, and a five hundred word essay describing personal philosophy of child life, including information about how you became interested in the field. The application for Cook Children’s can be found here.

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