Child life in the 1990s: Changing roles, changing times
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Health Care
- Vol. 15 (4) , 240-244
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02739618709514785
Abstract
This article presents an overview of the many changes that have occurred in the health care delivery system in the United States over the past few decades and their impact on the child life profession. It focuses upon four key factors: changing technology, rising health care costs, risk, management and liability, and alternative health care delivery systems. Throughout the discussion, potential threats to the traditional child life model are described, as well as opportunities for the survival, growth, and expansion of the child life profession and its commitment to the provision of high‐quality psychosocial care for children in health care settings.Keywords
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