Near and Far: Supporting Siblings of Children with Chronic Illnesses in Intensive Care and End of Life
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Evidence shows that siblings psychosocial functioning is impacted when a brother or sister is faced with a life-threatening illness. Through numerous interventions both inside and outside of the hospital, child life specialists can play an essential role facilitating siblings coping and understanding. This session will equip participants to effectively assess and provide appropriate child life support for siblings.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to apply evidence-based research regarding sibling psychosocial needs to clinical practice.
Participants will be able to identify therapeutic child life interventions based on the siblings developmental needs, temperament, and experiences.
Participants will be able to educate and empower parents in identifying the coping needs of their childs siblings, both beside and away from the clinical environment.
Participants will gain insight to the important practice of sibling advocacy throughout medical experiences.
DOMAIN: Intervention; 1 PDU
Katy Hoskins
CCLS
Katy Hoskins, CCLS is a Certified Child Life Specialist in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN. Her interests and advocacy centers around infant mental health, non-pharmacological pain management/procedural support for infants, prenatal psychosocial support for parents and siblings in Maternal Fetal medicine, preterm developmental needs, program development in Neonatology, and family-centered end of life care. Katy has been a child life specialist for almost five years with previous clinical experience in the emergency department and inpatient neurology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. She graduated in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Ecology with a concentration in Child Life and will begin pursuing her Masters degree in Early Childhood and Family Development at Missouri State University this fall. Katy serves on many hospital committees, including chair of the NICU Bereavement Committee, and is also an ACLP Bulletin committee member.
Allie Leidy
MA, CCLS
Allie Leidy, MA, CCLS is a Certified Child Life Specialist working with the hematology/oncology population at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been a child life specialist for three years. Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in human development and family studies from The Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts degree in child life from The University of Akron.