2009 Conference Program - Child Life Council

Conference Workshop Schedule
FRIDAY, MAY 22
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, MAY 23
9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Plenary Sessions
A. Play: An Endangered Species?
Diane Levin, PhD, Professor of
Education, Wheelock College, Boston,
MA
Two-Hour Seminars
1. Sibling Voices: What Siblings
Want You to Know!
4. String Stories, Chalk Talks,
and Other Transformation
Narratives
7. From Books to Bedside to
Boardroom: Integrating EBP
into Child Life Practice
Two-Hour Seminars
9. Build It and They Will Come:
Creating and Using Gaming-
Based Tools for Recreation and
Therapeutic Interventions
12. Therapeutic Entertainment in
Healthcare Settings
15. Effective Facilitation: A Key
Component in Clinical
Supervision
Professional Development Workshops
17. Journaling Techniques to Help
Children and Families Coping
with Medical Events: ‘Find the
Friend at the End of Your Pen’
– Part 1
20. Breaking Down the Barriers
of Pill Swallowing through
Behavior Modification
23. Listen Carefully: What
Patients with Developmental
Disabilities and Their Families
Can Teach Us
B. Child Life – Champions of
Patient- and Family-Centered
Care: A Family Perspective
Juliette Schlucter, President,
Bridgekeeper, Malvern, PA
2. Building Bridges Between
Assistive Technology and
Child Life
5. Documentation Innovations:
The Changing Face of
Documentation in Child Life
Practice
8. Legacy of Leadership in
Child Life: An Evidence-
Based Practice Approach
10. Boundary Waters: The Ebb
and Flow of Interpersonal
Relationships with Patients,
Families and Staff
13. Lessons From Youth: A Peer
Support Model
16. Beyond the Basics: Working
with the Children of Adult
Patients
18. A New Tool for Your
Toolbox: The Distraction
Coaching Index
21. Sleep Studies: A to ZZZ’s
24. Acknowledging Adult
Context: Understanding
Parents of Ill & Hospitalized
Children Via a Life-Course
Perspective
C. Developmental
Opportunities for Partnering
with Families, Jayne Singer,
PhD, The Brazelton Touchpoints
Center, Boston, MA
3. Temperament and
Personality: Child Life
Assessments, Interventions,
and Research
6. Making the Complicated
Simple: Helping Students
Integrate Knowledge, Skills
and Self
11. Qualitative Methods and
Child Life Research: Making
Connections to Support
Evidence-Based Practice
14. CHYPS (Children and
Young People’s Support) and
Chocolate — A Children’s
Survival Kit for Bereavement
19. Our Journey: Starting a
Non-Profit Organization
Dedicated to Providing Child
Life Services Beyond the
Hospital Walls
22. Transplant: Not Just Another
Surgery
B oston, Massachusetts | May 21 – 24, 2009 | 7