Child Life Clinical Internship Curriculum - Child Life Council

6. Identify culturally appropriate comfort measures for patients and their families at end
of life.
7. Communicate assessment, plan, and interventions both in the medical record and via
discussion with related staff.
Note: Interns are expected to demonstrate beginning skills via discussion, portfolio
documents, bibliography, and/or role play if they have no firsthand experience of a patient
death during the internship.
Required Readings
Pearson, L. (2005). The child who is dying. In J. A. Rollins, R. Bolig & C. C. Mahan (Eds)
Meeting Children’s Psychosocial needs Across the Health‐Care Continuum. (pp. 221‐
275), Austin, TX, PRO‐ED, Inc. (Chapter 6, 221‐275)
Pearson, L. (2009). Child life interventions in critical care and at end of life. In R. H.
Thompson (Ed.), The Handbook of Child Life: A Guide for Psychosocial Care. (pp.
220‐256), Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, LTD. (Chapter 11, pp. 220‐
237)
Brown, C. (2009) Working with grieving children and families. In R. H. Thompson (Ed.), The
Handbook of Child Life: A Guide for Psychosocial Care. (pp. 238‐256), Springfield, IL:
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, LTD. (Chapter 12, pp. 238=256)
American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Bioethics (1995). Informed consent,
parental permission and assent in pediatric practice. Pediatrics, 95, 314‐317. (A
policy statement of the AAP, published in 1995 and reaffirmed in 2006; Available at:
www.aap.org)
Supplementary Readings
Bearison, D.J. (2006). When Treatment Fails: How medicine cares for dying children. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Bell, J. & Esterling, L. (1986). What will I tell the children Omaha, NE, University of Nebraska
Medical Center Child life Department.
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