From Painful to Playful: An Intuitive Approach to Pediatric Pain Management | Webinar by Claire Brown

All children have a right to play. This is especially important for children and youth living with pain. Join Claire Brown, Certified Child Life Specialist from BC Children’s Hospital, to explore using play to manage pediatric pain. Learn about the profile of the pediatric patient and how children and youth experience and react to pain at each stage of their development.

We'll discuss how play can be integrated into a diverse pain treatment plan. Participants will receive a practice-aid handout with drug-free pain and stress reduction strategies to use with young patients.

Learning objectives:

Identify how pain is uniquely experienced and processed in children and teens

Discuss how play can help pediatric patients to cope with pain

List the knowledge, strategies and tools providers can use to make play a part of a comprehensive pain treatment plan

Learn about Pain BC’s My Care Path: a free, online self-management site for young people in pain and their families

About Claire Brown, CCLS, BCYC, ECCE

Claire Brown is a Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) at BC Children's Hospital serving the Neurosciences, Cardiac and Surgical Inpatient Units. Claire has a Bachelor's of Child and Youth Care degree from the University of Victoria as well as a diploma in Early Childhood Education from Capilano University. Claire has been at BC Children's Hospital for nearly ten years and in that time has provided child life services to a variety of specialty areas including the Medical Imaging Department, the Burn Program, and the Anesthetic Care Unit. She is passionate about outreach and in 2016 she became an Operation Smile Internationally Credentialed CCLS Volunteer. Claire participated in her first medical mission with the Operation Smile team in Panskura, India in January of 2017 and provided child life services to 197 pediatric patients undergoing cleft and palate repair surgeries. Claire's practice is based on a family-centered and collaborative approach to promoting patient coping, healing, and mastery of healthcare experiences.

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