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Child Life Specialist Bereavement Support
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- Job SummaryChild Life Specialist dedicated to adult support and children of adult patients is to be responsible for the following:The adult support advocate has a strong foundational skillset in traditional pediatric child life specialist and utilizes an expansive knowledge of child development, childhood trauma, and grief education; to support children of adult patients with serious medical conditions.
- The adult support advocate provides education for adults and children via disclosure and explanation of medical conditions, preparation for a death and/or bereavement support following a death, typical behavior and emotional responses to stress and trauma and childhood grief.
- Responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating individual and group child life services provided to patients through Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (HDVCH) in a manner which promotes age appropriate growth and development.
- Understanding and providing developmentally appropriate explanations to children and involved adult including diagnosis teaching, anticipatory grief, death and grief after loss.
- Maintains professional competencies in the child life field through involvement with attending conferences, reading journals and participation in the Association of Child Life Professionals.
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