Growing through Reciprocal Relationships: How Peer-to- Peer Mentorship Promotes Professional Development and Resilience in the Child Life Profession

Child life specialists often serve as one another’s primary support in discussing and reflecting on their clinical practice. This presentation highlights the positive implications that a peer-to-peer mentorship has on child life specialists’ clinical growth. Two child life specialists share their experiences within a formal peer-to-peer mentor program in a child life department, emphasizing the factors that can make a mentorship most effective and relevant to the child life profession.

1.0 PDU
SUGGESTED DOMAIN: Professional Responsibility

Objectives:

  • Following this presentation, participants will be able to define peer-to-peer mentorship, specifically within a child life professional setting.
  • Following this presentation, participants will be able to summarize the ways in which an effective peer-to-peer mentorship leads to professional development and resilience within the field of child life.
  • Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify mentorship practices that foster effective and healthy peer-to-peer mentor relationships.

Alexandra Seabrook (Moderator)

MHR, CCLS

Alex Seabrook is Senior Child Life Specialist at Children's Health in Dallas, TX. She has been a child life specialist since 2016 and currently serves the neuro-oncology population. Prior to her role in oncology, Alex held positions in trauma and radiology. She is also a facility dog handler for the hospital’s Paws for Hope animal assisted therapy program. Alex serves on committees such as the student programming committee and Adolescents and Young Adults in Oncology and recently graduated from the Children's Health Emerging Leaders Acceleration Program. Alex is a formal mentor to several novice and experienced child life specialists and has supervised many child life students.

Caroline Thompson (Moderator)

MS, CCLS

Caroline Thompson is a Certified Child Life Specialist at Children's Health in Dallas, TX. She earned her B.S. in Child Development from Texas Christian University and her M.S. in Child Life from the University of Georgia. She completed her internship at Children's Health and has been a child life specialist for three and a half years. She worked in inpatient cardiology for two years prior to transitioning to her current role in inpatient oncology. She participates in multiple committees within the child life department at Children's and is a student supervisor. Caroline grew in her passion for peer-to-peer mentorship due to her positive experience being a mentee to co-presenter Alex Seabrook.

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Growing through Reciprocal Relationships: How Peer-to- Peer Mentorship Promotes Professional Development and Resilience in the Child Life Profession
Recorded 06/18/2023  |  60 minutes
Recorded 06/18/2023  |  60 minutes
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