1. The ability to assess the developmental and psychosocial needs of infants, children, youth, and families.

2. ​The ability to initiate and maintain meaningful and therapeutic relationships with infants, children, youth, and families.

3. The ability to provide opportunities to play for infants, children, youth, and families.

4. The ability to provide a safe, therapeutic and healing environment for infants, children, youth, and families.

5. The ability to support infants, children, youth, and families in coping with stressful events.

6. The ability to provide teaching, specific to the population served, including psychologicla preparation for potentially stressful experiences, with infants, children, youth, and families.

7. The ability to practice within the scope of professional and personal knowledge and skill base.

8. The ability to continuously engage in self-reflective professional child life practice.

9. The ability to function as a member of a service team.

10. The ability to represent and communicate child life practice and psychosocial issues of infants, children, youth, and families to others. 

11. The ability to supervise child life students and volunteers.

12. The ability to integrate clinical evidence and fundamental child life knowledge into professional decision-making. 

13. The ability to develop and evaluate child life services. 

14. The ability to implement child life services within the structure and culture of the work environment.​​

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