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Providing emotional support for your children, and you.    Child Life Specialists help young patients develop ways to cope with anxiety, fear, and separation that often accompany the hospital experience. They give special consideration to each child's family, culture, and stage of development.    Child Life Specialists provide support to children and their families by:    Helping children cope with anxiety, fear and separation  Making doctors, needles and tests a little less scary  Providing art, music and pet therapy  Organizing activities  Addressing your concerns  Telling you what to expect  Creating a therapeutic and medical plan  Offering a hand to hold  Providing tours for families whose children are scheduled for surgery As professionals trained to work with children in medical settings, specialists hold a bachelor's or master's degree in the areas of child life, child development, and special education or recreational therapy. Our Child Life Specialists are also professionally certified and affiliated with the national Child Life Council.

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