Arts Activities for Children at Bedside - Softcover

Judy Rollins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931678081 ISBN 13: 9781931678087

Publisher: WVSA arts connection, 2004

Synopsis

Whether in the hospital, clinic, home, or hospice care setting, healthcare experiences can be stressful for anyone, but can be especially so for children. However, with appropriate support, children can survive and even grow from such experiences. We now know that the arts can play a significant role in that support. As the arts and health movement extends to all corners of the globe, artists working with children in healthcare settings are eager for ideas for activities.
Arts Activities for Children at Bedside draws upon Judy Rollins' 30+ years experience in arts in healthcare with children, their families, and caregivers. The book provides a sampling of activities that artists, parents, and other caring individuals can facilitate with children at bedside. The intent of the book is not to be an exhaustive text of activities, but rather is to serve as a means to promote awareness and understanding of the exciting possibilities that exist. From this awareness and understanding, artists can develop their own repertoires that consider their talents and skills and the needs of the children they serve.
An Introduction includes topics such as guidance for selecting activities, maintaining infection control, facilitating the activities, and celebrating children's artistic achievements. Activities are presented in nine content areas:
01-Saying Hello activities are used to engage interest, break the ice, and provide an opportunity for the artist to begin to know the child and give the child an opportunity to get to know the artist.
02-Bringing the Outside in activities bring the world outside to the child's bedside.
03-Images presents visual arts activities as well as examples of the impact of images in the healthcare environment upon children.
04-Words introduces a variety of writing activities and storytelling.
05-Movement presents bedside dance and movement activities.
07-Light offers photography as an artistic medium and light as an art itself.
08-Around the World looks at a sampling of multicultural arts activities.
09-Going Through the Day consists of activities that caring individuals--parents, nurses, child life specialists, play specialist, social workers, chaplain--can incorporate into the child's daily care and medical regimes.
A Final Note offers some closing thoughts on the arts and person centered care. Two appendices follow:
Appendix A-A Selection of Ethnic and Religious Festivals offers a month-by-month listing of ethnic and religious holidays from around the world.
Appendix B-Art Materials and Projects for Children and Other High-Risk Individuals provides essential safety information about art materials and techniques and suggested substitutions.
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About this title

About the Author:

Judy Rollins, PhD, RN, President, Rollins & Associates, Inc., brings 30 years of arts and healthcare experience in research, consulting, program development, and education. She is a registered nurse with a BFA in the visual arts, an MS in child development and family studies, and a PhD in health and community studies with an emphasis in children s nursing. She holds a Certificate in Evaluation Practice from The Evaluators Institute, George Washington University, Washington, DC, and serves as a program evaluator for local and national organizations.
Dr. Rollins develops arts programming for adults, children, families, and healthcare staff in hospitals, hospice care, and the community. She founded and directs the Studio G artists-in-residence program in pediatrics in partnership with the child life department at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Because of its strong training and internship program, Studio G is recognized as a model program nationally and internationally. She developed and teaches the course Artists in Hospitals at Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD, to introduce artists to working in healthcare settings. Formerly, as Director of Research and Program Development at WVSA arts connection, she developed ART is the heART, an arts program for children and families in hospice care. Most recently she developed arts programming for Wounded Warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
She is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Department Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Dr. Rollins consults, writes, and researches on healthcare issues national and internationally, with a special interest in the psychosocial needs of children and families in healthcare settings and the use of the arts in research to allow children's voices to be heard.
Author of over 100 publications, Dr. Rollins is editor for Pediatric Nursing and North America regional editor for the Society for the Arts in Healthcare's Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice. In addition to book of the year awards from the American Journal of Nursing and Pediatric Nursing, Dr. Rollins is the recipient of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care Research Award, Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare Partnership to Promote Arts and Healing Award, National Science Foundation Scholarship, and The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Travel Award. A long time officer and board member of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, she currently serves as an Ambassador, and in spring 2011 was among the first group of recipients of the Society's Distinguished Fellow awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: WVSA arts connection
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931678081
• ISBN 13: 9781931678087
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• Illustrator: Art Director: David Boyle, Photography: Mike Rollins