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Alicia Scott (I forgot to put my name on the last reply!)
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Date Posted: 20:41:51 06/14/10 Mon
In reply to:
Jessika Morris
's message, "Re: Greetings!" on 20:28:05 06/09/10 Wed
>Hi All,
>My name is Jessika Morris and I am a first year
>doctoral student in the Educational Psychology
>program. I am currently in Phoenix at a conference
>for my work, and look forward to meeting you all next
>week! I am a certified child life specialist (CCLS)
>at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, where I work
>with 0-12 year olds who have solid tumors on both an
>inpatient and outpatient basis. For those who don't
>know, child life specialists are people trained in
>education, development, counseling, family theories
>and therapeutic play - then we use developmental and
>therapeutic play, education, and emotional support to
>help children and families understand and cope with
>difficult medical experiences. My speciality is in
>working with children and their families at the end of
>life, so I do a lot of providing support and helping
>education patients and siblings about death and ways
>to cope with grief. I am originally from San
>Francisco, but relocated to Tennessee to do my
>Bachelor's at Rhodes and my master's at Vanderbilt (my
>background is in pre-med, religious studies, and
>applied child development.) See you all soon! Jessika
I wanted to be a Child Life Specialist for a while specifically to work with children at St. Jude. I think what you are doing is amazing and very respectable. I would probably have ended up going along with that career path however the internship wasn't something that I could ever work out and in the mean time I became interested in School Counseling. Besides, I don't think my heart could handle what you have to do on a daily basis. Many kudos to you :)
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