Cache Child Care Level 2 Unit 5

Considering what specialist help would be beneficial to the child and discuss options with parents/carers

Communication is a crucial skill for every Child Life Specialist to possess as a professional. Each day the Child Life Specialist must communicate with not only the parents, but also the child and his or her siblings. However, the specialist cannot converse with children in the same manner they do with adults. Children require alternate means of communication because they are not always fully able to convey their thoughts and emotions with words alone. As a result, the Child Life Specialist may utilize therapeutic

Firstly, I always talk to the parents to find out as much as I can about the child, their needs, interests, how much they can say or gestures they make for juice, hunger or toileting. Who they are closest to.

Responding to any concern has to be done in a professional manner meaning that you don’t talk to the parents or carer of the child without first following procedures.

In any healthcare setting the most important person is the patient, and in the case of pediatric patients their parents as well. If a healthcare provider is unable to communicate adequately the patients may be left feeling frustrated and angry. According to Levetown (2008) there are three important elements in building the relationship between a physician, parent, and child. These consist of informativeness or the quality of health information provided, interpersonal sensitivity or the ability for a physician to show interest in the parents’ and childs emotions and concerns, and partnership building (Levetown 2008). These basics can be applied to all health professionals, not just the physician themselves.

Children are encouraged to communicate their needs, feelings and thoughts. They are given opportunities to choose and use reading materials.

In a nursery everyone is working in best interest of every child, if a child has a certain disability or medical condition that everybody found out about, that child has a high chance of being treated differently and very unfairly. There are many examples of personal records which must be kept confidential such as; registration and admission forms, signed consents, information concerning the child and/or family, reports from meetings concerning the child from other agencies, observations from the staff on any confidential matter involving the child e.g.; development concerns or child protection matters, incident and accident logs.

The children act 1989 has influenced some settings by bringing together several sets of guidance and provided the foundation for many of the standards practitioners sustain and maintain when working with children. The act requires that settings work together in the best interests of the child and form partnerships with parents or carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult to child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection. This act has had an influence in all areas of practice from planning a curriculum and record keeping. The every child matters framework has

Sometimes it just takes talking things out with an unbiased person and someone with specialist training is clearly beneficial to our Students. The system is that each student requiring a visit to the counsellor will be given an appointment and this does not require parental involvement.

When assessing a child you must be careful to take into account confidentiality before carrying out an observation you must have parents and the settings permission and not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Only talk to authorized personal about

Will you need or want to contact the parent or obtain parental permission for counseling services prior to meeting with Geoffrey? Why or why not?

Communication is very important, not only with the child/ young person but also their parents/ careers. Parents and careers need to be kept updated with everything that happens with their child/children and information that they need to know about the nursery itself. The stronger the relationship between the practioners and the parent/ career the stronger the trust the parents/ careers have with their child/ children in your care.

The responsibility of the practitioner is to work as part of a team with other professionals and staff members effectively to bring children and parents the best possible service i.e. working with social workers, speech and language therapists, and family support workers. Practitioners must also have a working partnership with parents, to work effectively with the child as the parents are the primary carers and they will know what the child is like at home and what the child’s interests are. For example they would have a policy called ”parents as partners”.

1. Confidentiality must be kept at all times. You must have the senior practitioner’s and/or the parents’ permission before making formal observations of children. Do not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Line of reporting-only talk to authorized personal about confidential material. This confidentially can only be broken when a child is at real risk.

When communicating with a child’s healthcare provider it is important that provider listen and show interest in the problems mentioned even if the provider feels it is nothing to worry about. As a parent of two children we have had many different pediatricians some who listened and cared about what we had concerns about and some who would just say I wouldn’t worry about it and not explain why. It is important for anyone who is caring for the child’s health and well-being to show interest in what the parents want to know or have worries about. Having professional that show they want to help with anything that is a worry helps parent be more open to telling the healthcare