Child Life Specialists
Child Life Specialists
The Child Life team at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center provides coping support for children and families facing stressful health care situations.
When your child needs care or a medical procedure at the hospital, child life specialists provide support and advocate for your child’s developmental and emotional needs.
Child life specialists partner with your family and your child’s entire care team to ease your family’s way.
Child life specialists are experts in the developmental and psychological impact of illness and injury on children. Each specialist earns a bachelor’s degree at minimum in child development or another closely related field and maintains a nationally accredited certification.
At Providence, our child life team helps children and families cope with health care experiences that can be stressful. Services we offer for children include:
- Addressing when a child has difficulty cooperating with medicine or treatments
- Calming a child who is significantly distressed or fearful
- Coping with and preparing for medical procedures, surgery or tests
- Facilitating a visit with a family member who is in the hospital and providing support before and after the visit
- Helping a child use non-medicinal pain management techniques
- Offering age-appropriate play or therapeutic activities
- Support for a child and their family after a new diagnosis, injury or illness
- Support for any child dealing with the death of a loved one
Providence Children's Health of Oregon
A Leader in Caring for Kids – Serving Tens of Thousands of Children in Oregon Each Year.
At Providence Children’s Health, we understand children’s bodies and minds react differently than adults to injury, illness, medications and therapy. Our compassionate teams do everything they can to give your child the best possible experience. We offer everything from routine primary care to emergency and hospital care – for newborns, children and teens.
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