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The Emotional Safety Executive Summary and Full Report and currently undergoing revisions which will include the addition of several new references.
Every child deserves emotionally safe care. Our national movement to create a new, emotionally safe standard of pediatric care is rooted in the findings in this paper. In it we:
- Outline the potential trauma caused by receiving and delivering care that causes emotional harm
- Share the lifelong health impacts associated with receiving emotionally safe care as a child
- Promote specific strategies and tactics for reforming the pediatric setting to be more emotionally safe
- Highlight the Emotional Safety Framework
You can read our Executive Summary of the report here.
This paper was authored by the Association of Child Life Professionals in collaboration with child life specialists, physicians, nurses, other healthcare professionals, and caregivers.
The Emotional Safety Executive Summary and Full Report and currently undergoing revisions which will include the addition of several new references.