Child Life Specialist Challenges

In my opinion, the biggest challenging part of working as a Child Life Specialist will be the grief care, bereavement and intervention with a patient with life-threatening illness. I am going to cope with these challenges by preparing myself as professionally, and by respecting the children’s and families’ feelings. Child life specialists can contribute to the patients’ and families’ quality of life, and I believe that it is significant to support patients and families emotionally/socially regardless of situation. I will personally deal with these stressors by keeping my professional perspective, and by utilizing coping techniques (writing my concerns/feelings down, listening to music, sleeping, and taking a deep