Child Life Course
This course equips healthcare professionals with essential child life skills to support pediatric patients and families in clinical settings, focusing on distress reduction, coping strategies, and ethical practice.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Child Life Course provides practical tools to ease procedure distress, support coping, and improve family communication in hospital settings. You will learn age-appropriate play, distraction, and preparation techniques, quick psychosocial assessments, brief handovers, and advocacy skills, along with vital self-care and ethical advice to remain effective, confident, and resilient in a demanding clinical environment.
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Develop skills
- Pediatric coping tools: use play, distraction, and imagery for quick relief during procedures.
- Rapid child life assessment: identify psychosocial risks in busy children's wards.
- Clear procedure preparation: deliver age-suited scripts, visuals, and timing for routine tests.
- Family coaching skills: help caregivers lessen fear and boost child coping.
- Interprofessional advocacy: record, hand over, and advocate for child-centred care.
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