Efficient Inquiry: Painless Research Methods for Busy Clinicians

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The Association of Child Life Professionals’ Strategic Framework identifies research as a vital aspect to strengthening the perceived value and awareness of child life. More child life specialists are being inspired to conduct their own research to contribute to the field’s growing evidence base. In this session, through demonstration and case examples, attendees will learn research methods that are clinically feasible to implement and relevant to child life practice. Participants will be provided with easy-to-follow resources that break down the process of conducting a clinical research study from start to finish.

Learning Objectives:

1.) Attendees will be able to recite the main approaches for conducting clinical research.

2.) Attendees will be able to identify a research approach that is most suitable for use in their own setting.

3.) Attendees will be able to access resources that assist in implementing clinical research into their practice.

Domain: Professional Responsibility

Kathryn Cantrell

PhD, CCLS

Texas Woman's University

Kathryn Cantrell is an assistant professor in child development and child life at Texas Woman's University and a Certified Child Life Specialist. She earned her PhD in Counseling and School Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston and her MA in Child Development from Tufts University. Dr. Cantrell completed her child life internship at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children and worked as a child life specialist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Dr. Cantrell is also trained as a pediatric psychologist and completed her APA internship at South Shore Mental Health where she specialized in treating child and adolescent anxiety disorders, medical trauma, and encopresis. Dr. Cantrell has presented and published in the areas of illness disclosure, racial disparities in child life services, online patient communities, play-based interventions for decreasing anxiety, and pediatric research methods. Dr. Cantrell is a former Executive Editor of The Journal of Child Life: Psychosocial Theory and Practice and a current Research Fellow with ACLP.