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| "The expertise of the child life specialist includes a variety of skills for reducing anxiety [...], including skills for building rapport with children and parents as well as skills for coaching parents so that they can better support their child during the anesthesia induction phase. The expertise also includes a variety of knowledge areas that directly pertain to reducing anxiety [...], including knowledge of how to explain technical procedures (e.g., anesthesia induction) to small children, and knowledge of "soft" words (e.g., "sleepy air" instead of "gas", "medicine water" instead of "IV fluids") needed to substitute for scary and confusing "hard" words common to hospitals. Most important, child life specialists possess invaluable knowledge of play materials and how to support the kind of play that allows children of different ages to master their anxieties. In essence, comprehensive child life work combines many of the methods or treatment modalities mentioned in the literature on behavioral approaches to reducing pediatric patients anxieties. (Farrell et al., submitted for publication in April, 2010) " By addressing the needs of the whole child, child life services reduce perioperative anxiety. |
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