CAAS 380 - Introduction to Child Life

3 Credits

(Fall, Spring)
This course is designed to allow students interested in Child Life to acquire some of the fundamental skills in helping children and families cope with the stress of a health care experience. Child Life specialists strive to promote optimal development of children, adolescents and families, to maintain normal living patterns, and to minimize psychological trauma. Child Life specialists, as members of the health-care team, maintain, enhance, and maximize normal growth and development through play, education, advocacy, and therapeutic interventions. At the completion of this course, students will be able to promote the essential child life goals of minimizing stress and anxiety, promote coping, and promote normal development.