Competency Two:
​The ability to initiate and maintain meaningful and therapeutic relationships with infants, children, youth, and families.
One of my professional goals is to create a therapeutic environment to reduce medical trauma during hospital stays. This assignment demonstrates my ability to do so, as it required me to come up with an intervention for a sixteen year old female who enjoys art. The intervention I cam up with was a group art mural meant to be completed during a support group for adolescents who live with chronic illness. I based this activity off of Erikson's Psychosocial theory, emphasizing the importance of peer support and and freedom of expression in order to create and maintain a therapeutic environment.
In this assignment we were asked to reflect on our child life experiences so far and write down our personal beliefs, values, feelings, and ethics to help guide us in our practice. By adhering to these values and beliefs I am ensuring my ability to maintain meaningful and therapeutic relationships with the populations I will be interacting with, helping me reach my first professional goal.