Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Healthcare Continuum
(10613) ISBN: 9780890799925
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Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Healthcare Continuum examines the significant changes that have occurred recently in healthcare services for children and how these changes affect children's psychosocial needs. Throughout history, families and concerned professionals have overcome many challenges in their efforts to humanize healthcare encounters for children. Many programs aimed at educating healthcare professionals now include content about meeting the psychosocial needs of children and their families. Today's financially driven healthcare climate with its emphasis on managed care threatens to undermine these accomplishments, as well as curtail the development of new ones.
Significant changes have occurred in healthcare services for children. The system itself is still rapidly changing. Federal legislation, financial considerations, and societal expectations of the role of families often shift where services take place and who provides them. Our system serves children differently today than it did in the not too distant past. Additionally, our culture's increasing interest in alternative and complementary medicine is affecting services as well. All of these changes have significant effects on children and their psychosocial needs.
It is time to address these critical issues in children's healthcare. Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Healthcare Continuum integrates current research and theory within the framework of the new and transitioning healthcare environment. Despite the changes we are experiencing, children in healthcare settings-be it the home, child care center, school, community agency, ambulatory setting, or hospital-continue to need what they've always needed: the basics such as nurturing, predictability, adequate stimulation, interaction, a sense of control, and mastery of their environment. Let this book help you give these basic necessities to children in any stage of the healthcare continuum.
Contents:
- Children's Hospitalization and Other Health-Care Encounters
Lois J. Pearson
- Preparing Children for Health-Care Encounters Carmel C. Mahan
- Play in Children's Health-Care Settings
Rosemary Bolig
- The Arts in Children's Health-Care Settings
Judy A. Rollins
- The Child with Special Health-Care Needs
Elizabeth Ahmann and Judy A. Rollins
- The Child Who Is Dying
Lois J. Pearson
- Families in Children's Health-Care Settings
Teresa W. Julian and David A. Julian
- The Health-Care Environment
Mardelle McCuskey Shepley
- Spiritual Issues in Children's Health-Care Settings
Lynn B. Clutter
- Cultural Issues in Children's Health Care
Lacretia Johnson
- Ethical, Moral, and Legal Issues in Children's Health Care
Teresa A. Savage
- Relationships in Children's Health-Care Settings
Judy A. Rollins
- Epilogue
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551 pages • ©2005 • softcover
BOOK REVIEW #1
"In Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Health-Care Continuum, Rollins, Bolig, and Mahan have given us a book that examines all aspects of the healthcare system and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. This is the ideal text for those studying to be child life specialists, even though the first mention of child life does not appear until page 93. The authors have given us an exhaustive look at how to effectively provide psychosocial support for children and families. By building upon a strong foundation of developmental theory, the authors demonstrate how and why healthcare professionals must adapt to meet the changing needs of their patients and their families. This text also contains wonderful supportive information including tables, case studies, and personal insights, all of which have enhanced the overall work. A minor criticism is that occasionally these highlighted text boxes interfere with the flow of the book.
The tone of the book is hopeful yet realistic. It outlines the ideal for which we should all strive, while also recognizing the struggles and realities of child life practice. Though this text is designed for students, I would argue that anyone who works with children in healthcare should become familiar with it. It offers practical information and provides moments of inspiration and wisdom that can help us to be "change agents" for our patients, our communities, and ourselves." — Laura Mitchell, CCLS, CLC (Winter 2007 Edition, “A New 'Essential' for the Child Life Bookshelf,” Child Life Council Bulletin, pp. 4)
BOOK REVIEW #2
"Not since the 1960s has a comprehensive volume addressing the psychosocial needs of children in health care been developed. The authors provide a survey of the settings and particular problems faced by children in today's health care systems. The approach is family and community focused. The topics range from experiences with hospitalization to cultural and spiritual care, relationships, and ethical and moral issues. It was particularly good to see the chapters on play and the arts in health care settings.
The introduction and first chapters focus on the need for consideration of the psychosocial needs of children and families and, fittingly, the vast changes in hospitalization and hospitalized children in the current health care system. A developmental approach is advocated. Preparation of children for procedures and the use of play and the arts in health care settings are well discussed and illustrated.
Subsequent sections deal with special needs children and their families, the child who is dying, and families in health-care settings. Health care environment and spiritual issues are discussed, and include information about planning spaces and changing the environment as well as addressing spirituality and developmentally specific interventions to provide spiritual care. The final chapters cover cultural influences, legal, ethical, and moral issues and 'relationships.' An epilogue points the reader toward potential issues and challenges in the future.
The authors are doctorally or masters prepared clinicians and educators, and are well qualified to address these topics. Text boxes, illustrations, study guides and case studies are provided for further information and emphasis. Chapters include appendices with additional resources. Reference lists are extensive and helpful. The index is comprehensive and intuitive. The content seems appropriate for inclusion in nursing, education, child life, psychology or sociology curricula, mostly at the undergraduate level, although this would be a valuable resource for clinicians at any level. A free Instructor's Guide is available from the publisher upon request." — Jean Ivey, DSN, CRNP (March-April 2006 Edition, Pediatric Nursing)