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Professional Responsibility

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Growing through Reciprocal Relationships: How Peer-to- Peer Mentorship Promotes Professional Development and Resilience in the Child Life Profession

Sunday, June 18, 2023
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM CST
Location: High Plains 1
PDUs 1.0 PDUs
Child life specialists often serve as one another’s primary support in discussing and reflecting on their clinical practice. This presentation highlights the positive implications that a peer-to-peer mentorship has on child life specialists’ clinical growth. Two child life specialists share their experiences within a formal peer-to-peer mentor program in a child life department, emphasizing the factors that can make a mentorship most effective and relevant to the child life profession.

DOMAIN: Professional Responsibility

Objectives:

  • Following attendance of this presentation, participants will be able to define peer-to-peer mentorship, specifically within a child life professional setting.
  • Following attendance of this presentation, participants will be able to summarize the ways in which an effective peer-to-peer mentorship leads to professional development and resilience within the field of child life.
  • Following attendance of this presentation, participants will be able to identify mentorship practices that foster effective and healthy peer-to-peer mentor relationships.