Description:

According to the Association of Child Life Professionals “Emotional safety encompasses specialized strategies including atraumatic, patient- and family-centered, trauma-informed, culture-centered, and developmentally appropriate care. These clinical components are woven throughout the four pillars of emotional safety: (a) screening and assessment; (b) intervention; (c) environment; and (d) education, training, and communication.” Join Jenaya Gordon in a presentation that focuses on defining emotional safety, common reactions children and teens have to trauma, and lastly presents trauma-informed, emotionally safe tactics to use with injured patients.

Objectives: 

1. Define the definition of emotional safety as it applies to pediatrics
2. List common reactions children and teens have to trauma
3. Describe trauma-informed, emotionally safe tactics to use with injured patients