Publications by authors named "Renee Pederson"
Objective: The objective of this review was to map the available evidence regarding the scope of child life specialist services, practice, and utilization.
Introduction: The concept of child life services began in 1922 and emerged as the child life specialist services specialty in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. Child life specialists are members of multidisciplinary health care system teams who prioritize the developmental needs of pediatric patients to support and improve patient and family health care experiences.
Objective: The objective of this review is to map the available evidence regarding the scope of child life specialist practice and utilization.
Introduction: Child life specialists provide developmentally appropriate and emotion-focused supportive interventions that aim to build coping skills, enhance resilience, and mitigate traumatic experiences during health care encounters. Evidence of the care provided by a child life specialist is spread throughout health care literature.