Robyn Hart and Judy Rollins
379 pages • ©2011 • softcover • ISBN 978-0-470-55500-2
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Judy Rollins and Robyn Hart, MEd, CCLS, Director of Child Life Services at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, are pleased to announce the publication of their new book, Therapeutic Activities for Children and Teens Coping with Health Issues. The 379-page book, published by John Wiley & Sons, includes over 200 therapeutic activities designed to help children and adolescents cope with difficult health issues.
Written to provide mental health professionals with a variety of activities to help children manage the physical and emotional challenges related to illness—be it chronic, temporary, or that of a family member—Therapeutic Activities for Children and Teens Coping with Health Issues presents more than two hundred curative, evidence-based, and age-appropriate activities and interventions that promote positive directions in overcoming obstacles and handling the stress, worry, and/or difficulties faced when dealing with illness.
Organized in a user-friendly format that allows the reader to quickly locate easy-to-follow activities, as well as step-by-step instructions for implementing them in a variety of settings, this comprehensive guide provides:
- Activities designed to promote understanding, adaptation, and coping for children and adolescents experiencing health issues of their own or those of a family member
- Unique approaches, such as humor, as well as a host of other topics, including grief, separation, and culture
- Activities that help children deal with specific health issues, including body image, desensitization to medical implements, death, pain, motor skills, and more
- Chapter introductions that include insightful theoretical overviews to support each method covered
- An accompanying CD containing customizable and reproducible activities, activity templates, and easy-to-use patterns
The only guide available of its kind, Therapeutic Activities for Children and Teens Coping with Health Issues assists mental health practitioners as well as members of the pediatric healthcare team—including parents—in understanding and implementing culturally sensitive, evidence-based activities that support the well-being of children and adolescents.
For additional information, go to http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470555009,descCd-description.html
A. Ethier, J. Rollins & J. Stewart
140 pages • ©2010 • softcover • ISBN 978-0-9666193-2-4
Glenview, IL: CureSearch Children's Oncology Group & Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses
This resource is the product of a partnership between the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses and the Children's Oncology Group Nursing Discipline and provides important information for pediatric hematology/oncology nurses who are caring for critically and terminally ill children. Palliative care begins at the time of cancer diagnosis and continues through the illness trajectory. When children are not expected to survive their disease, palliative care continues through the dying process and the bereavement period.
The Resource is organized by sections that represent critical aspects of pediatric oncology end-of-life palliative care including
- definitions
- causes
- overview of care
- recommendations
- references
- supporting materials
Judy Rollins & Carmel Mahan
112 pages • ©2010 • PDF
Washington, DC: Rollins & Associates, LLC
From Artist to Artist-in-Residence: Preparing Artists to Work in Pediatric Healthcare Settings (2nd ed.) is now available online. As was the initial book published in 1996, this updated edition is designed to help arts administrators and healthcare professionals plan, implement, and evaluate an artists-in-residence training program that prepares artists to work with children who are hospitalized. It details the four step process used to prepare professional artists—musicians, dancers, poets, storytellers, and a variety of visual artists—for employment in Studio G, a pediatric artists-in-residence program launched at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, in 1993. To download your free copy click here.
Judy Rollins, Rosemary Bolig, & Carmel Mahan
551 pages • ©2005 • softcover • ISBN 978-0-89079-922-2
Austin, TX: ProEd, Inc.
description | contents | reviews
Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Healthcare Continuum examines the significant changes that have occurred recently in healthcare services for children and how these changes affect children's psychosocial needs. Throughout history, families and concerned professionals have overcome many challenges in their efforts to humanize healthcare encounters for children. Many programs aimed at educating healthcare professionals now include content about meeting the psychosocial needs of children and their families. Today's financially driven healthcare climate with its emphasis on managed care threatens to undermine these accomplishments, as well as curtail the development of new ones.
Significant changes have occurred in healthcare services for children. The system itself is still rapidly changing. Federal legislation, financial considerations, and societal expectations of the role of families often shift where services take place and who provides them. Our system serves children differently today than it did in the not too distant past. Additionally, our culture's increasing interest in alternative and complementary medicine is affecting services as well. All of these changes have significant effects on children and their psychosocial needs.
It is time to address these critical issues in children's healthcare. Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Healthcare Continuum integrates current research and theory within the framework of the new and transitioning healthcare environment. Despite the changes we are experiencing, children in healthcare settings-be it the home, child care center, school, community agency, ambulatory setting, or hospital-continue to need what they've always needed: the basics such as nurturing, predictability, adequate stimulation, interaction, a sense of control, and mastery of their environment. Let this book help you give these basic necessities to children in any stage of the healthcare continuum.
Contents:
- Children's Hospitalization and Other Health-Care Encounters Lois J. Pearson
- Preparing Children for Health-Care Encounters Carmel C. Mahan
- Play in Children's Health-Care Settings Rosemary Bolig
- The Arts in Children's Health-Care Settings Judy A. Rollins
- The Child with Special Health-Care Needs Elizabeth Ahmann and Judy A. Rollins
- The Child Who Is Dying Lois J. Pearson
- Families in Children's Health-Care Settings Teresa W. Julian and David A. Julian
- The Health-Care Environment Mardelle McCuskey Shepley
- Spiritual Issues in Children's Health-Care Settings Lynn B. Clutter
- Cultural Issues in Children's Health Care Lacretia Johnson
- Ethical, Moral, and Legal Issues in Children's Health Care Teresa A. Savage
- Relationships in Children's Health-Care Settings Judy A. Rollins
- Epilogue
REVIEWS
"A New 'Essential' for the Child Life Bookshelf"
Laura Mitchell, CCLS, CLC, 2007, Child Life Council Bulletin, 24(1), 4.
"In Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Health-Care Continuum, Rollins, Bolig, and Mahan have given us a book that examines all aspects of the healthcare system and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. This is the ideal text for those studying to be child life specialists, even though the first mention of child life does not appear until page 93. The authors have given us an exhaustive look at how to effectively provide psychosocial support for children and families. By building upon a strong foundation of developmental theory, the authors demonstrate how and why healthcare professionals must adapt to meet the changing needs of their patients and their families. This text also contains wonderful supportive information including tables, case studies, and personal insights, all of which have enhanced the overall work. A minor criticism is that occasionally these highlighted text boxes interfere with the flow of the book.
The tone of the book is hopeful yet realistic. It outlines the ideal for which we should all strive, while also recognizing the struggles and realities of child life practice. Though this text is designed for students, I would argue that anyone who works with children in healthcare should become familiar with it. It offers practical information and provides moments of inspiration and wisdom that can help us to be "change agents" for our patients, our communities, and ourselves."
"Editors' Choice"
Jean Ivey, DSN, CRNP, 2006, Pediatric Nursing, 32(2), 154.
"Not since the 1960s has a comprehensive volume addressing the psychosocial needs of children in health care been developed. The authors provide a survey of the settings and particular problems faced by children in today's health care systems. The approach is family and community focused. The topics range from experiences with hospitalization to cultural and spiritual care, relationships, and ethical and moral issues. It was particularly good to see the chapters on play and the arts in health care settings.
The introduction and first chapters focus on the need for consideration of the psychosocial needs of children and families and, fittingly, the vast changes in hospitalization and hospitalized children in the current health care system. A developmental approach is advocated. Preparation of children for procedures and the use of play and the arts in health care settings are well discussed and illustrated.
Subsequent sections deal with special needs children and their families, the child who is dying, and families in health-care settings. Health care environment and spiritual issues are discussed, and include information about planning spaces and changing the environment as well as addressing spirituality and developmentally specific interventions to provide spiritual care. The final chapters cover cultural influences, legal, ethical, and moral issues and 'relationships.' An epilogue points the reader toward potential issues and challenges in the future.
The authors are doctorally or masters prepared clinicians and educators, and are well qualified to address these topics. Text boxes, illustrations, study guides and case studies are provided for further information and emphasis. Chapters include appendices with additional resources. Reference lists are extensive and helpful. The index is comprehensive and intuitive. The content seems appropriate for inclusion in nursing, education, child life, psychology or sociology curricula, mostly at the undergraduate level, although this would be a valuable resource for clinicians at any level. A free Instructor's Guide is available from the publisher upon request."
Jean Ivey, DSN, CRNP, is Associate Professor and Coordinator, Pediatric Graduate Options, The University of Alabama School of Nursing, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Judy Rollins and L. Lawrence Riccio
This book (revised in April, 2003) describes a program for children and families in home and hospice care, the process used to select and prepare artists, the challenges faced, and the rewards of both a successful arts-in-healthcare undertaking and a rich and meaningful community partnership between WVSA Arts Connection and the pediatric division of the Med Star Health Visiting Nurse Association.
L. Lawrence Riccio, Judy Rollins, and Alexis Riccio
This second edition of Arts-Infused Volunteer Guide for Children in Crisis is a direct response to the acts of terrorism that took place in America on September 11, 2001, which sparked an urgent need for resources to help children. This edition also features a special section on how children with special needs respond to crises and how volunteers can help them.
L. Lawrence Riccio, David Boyle, Desiree Smith, and Judy Rollins
This book was developed for use in WVSA's BEST ME program for children in foster care. The curriculum uses evidence-based and well documented practices on building resilience through (a) caring relationships, (b) high expectations and adequate support to meet them, and (c) opportunities to contribute to others.
L. Lawrence Riccio, Judy Rollins, and Kim Morton
The SAIL effect describes the evolving evaluation model used to assess the effectiveness of arts-infused learning communities in overall academic and social development of children with and without special needs.