Child Life Course
This course provides essential skills for child life specialists to support pediatric patients and families in healthcare settings through play, assessment, preparation, and advocacy techniques.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Child Life Course equips you with practical tools to ease procedure distress, support coping, and enhance family communication in hospital settings. You will learn targeted play, distraction, and preparation techniques suited to different ages, quick psychosocial assessments, brief handoffs, and advocacy skills, along with vital self-care and ethical guidance to remain effective, confident, and resilient in a demanding clinical environment.
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Develop skills
- Pediatric coping tools: apply play, distraction, and imagery for quick procedure relief.
- Rapid child life assessment: triage psychosocial risk in busy paediatric settings.
- Clear procedure prep: provide age-appropriate scripts, visuals, and timing for common tests.
- Family coaching skills: guide caregivers to reduce fear and bolster child coping.
- Interprofessional advocacy: document, hand off, and advocate for child-friendly care.
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