Term
Zone of proxima development
reference- the handbook of childlife page 27 |
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Definition
| Vygotsky term for a metaphorical area or zone surrounding a linear that includes all the skills, knowledge and concepts that a person is close "proxima" to acquiring but cannot yet master without help. |
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Jargon
reference- the handbook of childlife page 84 |
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Definition
Merriam Webster's dictionary offers three different definitions of jargon.
1) Confused and intelligible language.
2) The technical terminology or charateristics idiom of a special activity or group.
3) Obsucure and often pretentious language marked up circumlocutions and long words.
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Term
Allness errors
reference- handbook of childlife page 83-84
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Definition
Alfred Korzybski observed that while we can never know all about something the structure of our language tends to lead us to think that we can.
Korzybski labelled the tendancy to use absolute the allness error. (example: few,most,usually,sometimes,or,often,all,every,none,never)
We need to eliminate allness error by:
a) detect the allness error
b) replace the allness error by some,many |
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Term
8 adaptive tasks of families with a child with a chronic illness or disability
reference: Rollines page 180-181 |
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Definition
1. Family is the constant in a child life.
2. Facilitating family and professional collaboration.
3. Exchange complete and unbiased information between families and professionals.
4. Honour cultural diversity, strength.
5. Respect different methods of coping.
6. Facilitate family to family support.
7. Ensuring the hospital/community service and support systems for children needing specialised help and development care.
8. Aprreciating families as families, children as children, recognising that they posess a wide range of strngth,concerns,emotions and aspiration beyond their needs. For specialised help and developmental services and support.
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Term
Insurance statement
reference: The handbook of childlife page 304-305 |
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Definition
1. Hypno therapeutic techniques very effective in engaging and redirecting children's attention to address their fear and pain.
2. These techniques can be powerful in engaging children imagination and are easily taught to and coached by parents and others (Solomon).
Examples:
1. You feel more and more calm.
2. You are aware of other's talking, but you are relaxed by listening only to my voice.
3. You are aware of what is going on, but you are not bothered by it.
4. You are comforted by your own calm feelings.
5. You know just how to yourself.
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Consideration for Communication strategies techniques
reference: Psycho social care of children hospital page 57-58 |
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Definition
1. Use language that conveys respect and enhances personal integrity and self-worth.
2. Use questions only when a choice is possible.
3. Use pronouns accurately as in converstaions with adults, avoid the use of we, our or us when the speaker means you, I or me.
4. Use proper voice between no (singing songs, pitched)
5. Be aware of non-verbal messages.
6. Be responsive and follow the lead of children or family members.
"Tell the children what they can do, not what they should not do." |
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Information learned from the family
reference- Psycho social care of children care in hospital page 50 |
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Definition
1. The child's likes and dislikes.
2. Child's behaviour and response.
3. Family support and availabilty during hospitalisation.
4. Needs and concerns of siblings and other family members.
5. Parents concents, ideas or suggestions regarding hospital practices and policies.
6. Parents perceptions understanding and feelings related to their child healthcare experience.
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Term
Supporting natural rules of the family.
refernce: Psycho social care of children in hospital page 51 |
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Definition
Continuing normal patterns of parents and family involvement increases familiarity and helps reduce the percieved threat of the hospital environment.
1. Family members are the primary on-going care givers for the child.
2. Family rules, routines and rituals are the most familiar and predictable for the child.
3. Family members know the child best.
4. The family commitment to the best interest of the child deseves respect and support. |
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Term
Stuart and Sundeen (therapeutic relationship)
refernce: the handbook of child life page 60 |
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Definition
Means trust, warmth, inter-personal positive regard and focus on empowerment of child or family.
Other name is clinical relationship.
Trust of support relationship.
(a clinical and non-clinical)
Clinical relationship: within h/care service as well as their families and friends within the assigned patient.
Non clinical relationship: exists between the scope of the professionals. |
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Goals for individualised preadmission preparation
reference : the handbook of childlife page 217 |
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Definition
| Developmentally appropriate tours for patients, siblings and families which includes a visit to the areas a patient will experience, medical play, and aquisation and answer session for children and parents. |
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Goals of dance and movement
refernce: Rollines page 145 |
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Definition
- Establishing trust (a peekaboo game)
- Enabling body awareness and
( using feather, duster, yarn ball, colourful wand, stretches band or sound of bells)
- Identify body sensations
a) regulate breath
b) physical sensation
c) physical circulation
- Enabling the expression of feelings
- Use of coulourful props, stories and music
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Term
Effective listening
reference: the handbook of childlife pafe 91-93 |
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Definition
Effective listening makes it possible to understand and to be understood. there are 4 stages of effective listening:
1. Hearing
2. Attention
3. Understanding
4. Remembering |
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Term
Family system theory
reference: the handbook of childlife page 32 |
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Definition
- It examines each individual in the family.
- It demonstrates how characteristics of families such as openness, permibilty and flexibility, vary in degree and influence the families capacity to adjust to change.
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Term
Sensory information
Reference:Rhe hand book of Child Life page.168 |
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Definition
-Information that the brain collects from one senses (test,smell,sight,hearing,touch)
- The information s collected from the sensory receptorn and then sent through the newral pathways to the brain where it is processed so it can be understood |
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Term
GuidLines for talking with children and families a bout Health Care Experience (bullets)
Reference:Childlife exam secrets stydyguid page.99
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Definition
Infants,todlers,young school aged children
- Focus on intensity level and rise and fall of infant sounds
- Relies on body language
- More effective when children near their parents
- Use quit voice
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Term
Emma Plank
Reference:Hand book of child life page. 10-13 |
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Definition
She created a program to adress the social,emotional,and educational needs of hospitalized children
Her Goals:
-To create play area for hospitalized children
- Prepare children for different procedures and test
-Help school-age children to continue with their school work while hospitalized
-Provide apportunityes for children to play under the direction of skilled worker
- Provide area for parents to visit & play with their hospitalized children
-Help children to accept hospital food
- Child needs should be served by all professionals working with children |
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Characteristics of play
Reference: Child development A first course chapter 11 page. 157 |
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Definition
Play is:
a- Spontaneous
b- Active
c:Pleasurables |
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Nature VS Nature
Reference: The developmental Person Page. 59 |
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Definition
| It is an old debate whether a person's development is predisposed in his/her DNA, or a majority of it influenced by his/her life experiences and his /her inviornment |
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Term
Beneficience
Reference: Code of Ethic |
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Definition
| The duty to do good ,the duty to promote the welfare of the individual. Most commonly viewed as doing good for an individual and family , but can be applied to the broader perspective of doing good for society or mankind |
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Nonmaleficence
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The duty to Avoid or at least minimize harm and burden |
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Respect for persons
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The duty to recognize an individual as having unique worth,character and potential and deserving treatment with dignity |
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Autonomy
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The duty to respect and foster self-determination and freedom of action of the individual |
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Justice
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
-The duty to be fair, impartial and equitable and to avoid any discriminatory practices.
-Obligation to give someone what he or she deserves |
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Distributive justice
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The equitable distripution, allocation or access to human and financial resorces. This occurs when there are rivals competing for the limited resources |
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Veracity
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The obligation to be truthful...essential to foster trust |
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Fidility
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The duty to keep promises |
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Confidentiality
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The responsibility to respect and protect the privacy of others and to refrain from sharing potentially harmful, embarrassing and irrelevant information. |
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Competence
Reference: Code of Ethics |
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Definition
| The duty to attain and maintain adequate skills and abilities to perform responsibilities. |
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