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Name _____Alicia Rangel____________________________          House ____S___   Topic ____CHILD LIFE SPECIALIST______________________________
THREE COLUMN LOGIC CHART
Essential Question: What is the most significant contribution of child life services to a hospitalized child's health?
Best Answer: play in the hospital
Statements	Reasons	Verification
1) EQ: What is the most significant contribution of child life services to a hospitalized child's health?	1) Given	1)
2) child life services are the roles played by child life specialist	2) we need to know what child life services are in order to classify them as child life specilaist	2) childlife.org
3) child life specialist are pediatric health proffesionals who work with children and families in hospitals and other settings to help them cope with the challenges of hospitalization	3) we need to understand what child life specilaist in order to know what contributions they make to children	3) mayo school of health sciences
4) child life services were necessary for the emotional stability and healthy development of hospitalized children	4) hospitalized children are mitigating the fear and pain associated with treatments	4) evolution of the child life profession
5) child life programs are beneficial	5) they promote normal growth and development	5) barnabas health.com
6) answer1: preperation	6) increases the understanding of the hospital experience	6) Mary Seriah
7) the aspect involves clinic visits, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures	7) helps familiarizes the children and families with the circumstances and procedures they will encounter	7) American academy of pediatrics
8) the specialist provide verbal information to families and children	8) they share accurate descriptions to demonstrate the experiences they will have	8) earl grollman
9) enables the child to practice coping strategies	9) strategies include relaxationa and pain management techniques	Eileen ogintz
10) answer2: support	10) the child life team plays a crucial role in supporting children and families by helping the cope and adjust to the stessors of hospitalization and illness.	10) University of maryland, pediatrics
11) support involves not only the child but parents and other members of the family	11) family members have an important effect on a child's adjustment to the health care experience	11) chris daniels
12) emotional support is the most common form of support	12) emotional support helps the child and family cope and remain confident throughout the experience	12) "emotional care of hospitalized children"
13) answer3: play in the hospital	13) play therapy involves many creative techniques to help benefit children	13) j.p. lilly
14) increases childes social skills	14) they learn to develop respect and acceptance of themselves and others	14) schaefer,2005
15) is a common form of distraction towards hospitalization	15) the children natrually enforce their play and remain independent while play	15) jessica marcer
16) It makes them feel good overall	16) promotes self confidence and selfe esteem, boosting their ability to cope	16) recognition of the importance of play in the hospital
	if : preperation, support, and play in the hospital are significant contributions of the child life services
	then: the most significant contribution of the child life services to a hospitalized child's health would be play in the hospital because it promotes he child's self esteem while improving their ability to cope.

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 

The ESLR, to which I feel I have excelled in most in my senior project is... being an effective Communicator

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

For my senior project I feel that I have best become a much more and effective communicator. I clearly have been a more effective communicator because, now when I do need feed back with my senior project, I  ask for opinions by communicating with some of my classmates. Not only in school have I been improving my communication skills, but as well as my during my mentorship. From time to time I learned that along with being responsible, communication skills were extremely important to have when working with children. Since they are children , I eventually have developed a new way of how to communicate with that specific age group effectively. Along with that skill, I have gained a greater deal of patience, which has helped me create bonds with the kids at my mentorship.Ipoly in general helps students become better communicators, with all the group work and things like trade shows. What has helped me specifically strive as a better communicator this year  is my experience of presenting our 10 and 30 minute lesson plans. Even though the 10 minute was a short presentation, this was what gave me the confidence as a senior to want to spark up my communication skills as a presenter. From the space gaps between my first and second presentation, im learning more, and hopefully to the point where I communicate extra well during my 2hour presentation.

3.  To support my claim...

The "ice breaker" of my communication skills as a senior...my 10 minute presentation



This image is a refereance to one of the ways I use alot of  communication at the daycare , during 'HOMEWORK TIME'



2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is your essential question? What is the most significant contribution of child life services to a hospitalized child's health?
2.  My third answer to my essential question is support.

3. The child life team plays a crucial role in supporting children and their families by helping them cope with and adjust to the stressors of illness and hospitalization.
 4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question? http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/child_life.htm ( the University of maryland pediatics site).
5.  What do you plan to study next and why? I plan on studying techniques on how to support a child depending on this issues and just more of the basics about emotional support.

Fouth interview questions

1)What are the most significant contributions of child life services to a hospitalized child's health?
2)How did you find out about the child life field?
3)How do you personally describe your career to someone who is unfamiliar with it?
4)Which age group is easiest to medically prepare?
5)Is it harder to help a child cope before or after procedure?
6)Are the any experiencences that have helped you prepare for being a child life specialist?
7)How do you see your self connecting with the community?
8)How do the specialist phycologically prepare a hospitalized child?
9)What makes preperation difficult for a hospitalized child ?
10)What makes preperation difficult for a child life specialist?
11)What do you do to take care of your self during difficult or stressful days at the hospital?
12)What can you tell me about the nature of relationships between child life specilaist and the families?
13)How does play therapy contribute to medical care?
14)Are there any professions similar to child life specialist?
15)What are some ways child life specialist provide emotional support for the families?
16)What are some ways child life specialist provide emotional support for the child?
17)Due to your own experience, are there any frequent questions asked while at work  that you have to answer?
18)Are there specific skills that I as a person should make sure I have before entering this career path?
19)How do you mesure the effectiness of play therapy?
20)Are there any specific techniques of play that you reccomend?

2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  Essential Question: 2.  The second answer to my essential question is "Phycological Preperation".
3.  Preparing children for hospitalization and procedures is is an important element of child life services.
Preperation reduces emotional disturbances in the hospital setting.
Preperation allows the specialist to explain and introduce the child to procedure that will be further done.
4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question? My source was the article from The American Academy of pediatics, about child life services.
5.  I plan to continue the study of my answer 2 by finding great books that talk and explain about the importance of medical preperation.

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

CONTENT:
(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
For my independent component I plan on working with the motel children's hospital in Los Angeles.
(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement. I will meet the required time by working every week with the children's hospital's child life specialist program.
(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?  It relates to my project because I will get real life experience with working with the specialist .