This textbook, the first to focus on child life assessment, educates seasoned child life specialists and child life students about the significant impact that robust psychosocial assessments have on child life interventions for children and families coping with hospitalization, chronic illness, and life transitions. Child life specialists engage in a cyclical process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation to support healthy development and coping. The authors guide readers through current, evidence-based child life assessment practices and propose future directions for the growing child life profession. The book opens with chapters discussing the foundations of child life assessment including its history, moves to tools and approaches, then considers specific settings and populations, and concludes with future directions for the profession. Case examples and professional perspectives make explicit assessment applications to child life practice.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-0364-1116-9 (9781036411169)
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Kathryn Cantrell, PhD, CCLS (Certified Child Life Specialist) is an Associate Clinical Professor in the department of Human Development, Family Studies, and Counseling at Texas Woman's University, USA. She has previously worked as a Certified Child Life Specialist and pediatric psychologist. She has authored nine book chapters and 17 journal articles. Cara Sisk, PhD, CCLS is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Ecology at Tennessee Technological University, USA. As a Certified Child Life Specialist with more than 10 years of clinical practice, on which she draws in her academic work, educating child life students. She has authored eight book chapters and 14 journal articles. Brittany Wittenberg Camp, PhD, CCLS, CFLE (Certified Family Life Educator) is a Child Life Program Development Coordinator at Phoenix Children's Hospital, USA. As a Certified Child Life Specialist, she has nine years of clinical experience and six years of academic service. She has published six book chapters and nine journal articles.
