Allison Clopton-White Email & Phone Number

I am a Certified Child Life Specialist at MercyOne Medical Center in Des Moines, IA. I specialize in the Medical Imaging department with our pediatric population. Child Life Specialists provide emotional and psychosocial support to children and families in health care settings. They promote coping through opportunities for play, normalcy, and socialization, prepare patients for medical events, and provide age-appropriate education of medical procedures and equipment. Child Life Specialists advocate for patients and families by communicating their wishes, needs, and fears to other members of the health care team, normalizing the hospital environment, providing emotional support, and encouraging optimal development during stressful experiences.Specialties: Strong advocate for problem solving, leadership, and team communication. Specializes within, advocating for patients and families within a hospital setting and normalizing the hospitalization as much as possible, with strong leadership skills. Results are shown through positive feedback from patients, employee staff and the community.

Listed skills include Healthcare, Treatment, Hospitals, Child Life Practicum Supervisor, and 13 others.

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  Iowa State University

  Child Life