CLPPC 715 / Child Life Clinical Internship 1

6 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): Enrollment is restricted to Child Life and Pediatric Psychosocial Care students only.

This is a required course for Stream 1 learners in the Fall Term. This course will provide students with the opportunity to facilitate their knowledge and professional skill development within the scope of child life practice, accumulating 360 hours of supervised clinical experience within a hospital or community setting. This is the first of two internships with the purpose of providing the student with supervised clinical experience to introduce and reinforce clinical skills in accordance with the competencies outlined by the Association for Child Life Professionals.
The course will run in conjunction with the course “Clinical Skills Seminar I”.