ACLP Bulletin

ACLP Bulletin

ACLP Bulletin is the quarterly, digital publication for the child life community. Its aim is to provide content that encourages the continued clinical development of child life professionals, and a forum for highlighting their milestones, challenges, innovations and successes. It also provides 1.0 PDU per issue for ACLP Members.

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Spring 2023

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Winter 2023

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Summer 2022

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Fall 2022

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Spring 2022

Internship crisis, lessons learned in the community settings, and more

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Winter 2022

Decentering Whiteness in Child Life, Agenda for Child Life Science, and more!

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Fall 2021

Child life in adult care settings, virtual child life practicum, and more!

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Summer 2021

Read about organ donation and transplantation in pediatrics, utilizing CCTV and YouTube, and much more!

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Spring 2021

Read about the the student-to-professional pipeline, debiasing for equitable care, and medical play for children who have trachs.

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Winter 2021

Read about the patient voice, licensure, the G.R.I.E.F. program, and more.

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Fall 2020

Read about DEI highlights, a tribute to child life, and much more.

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Summer 2020

Read about the impact of COVID-19 and ACLP's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Spring 2020

Read about HIPAA, art in healthcare, and resources for children coping with hair loss.

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Winter 2020

Read about the importance of pronouns, child life in Taiwan, and more.

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Fall 2019

Read about sibling programming, fantastical play, and animal assisted therapy.

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Summer 2019

Read the ethics-themed summer issue.

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Spring 2019

Read about disaster relief in our communities.

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Winter 2019

Read about supporting the NICU preemie family.

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Fall 2017

Read about child life tech and much more.

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Summer 2017

Read this special issue on relationships in child life.

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Submissions

Deadlines

Articles must be received by the dates below in order to be considered for that issue. Once received, other factors will be taken into consideration to determine publishing date.

Winter Issue (January)

October 1st

Spring Issue (April)

January 1st

Summer Issue (July)

April 1st

Fall Issue (October)

July 1st

Please email submissions to bulletin@childlife.org.

Guidelines

The ACLP Bulletin editors, ACLP staff and Focus Review Board are committed to making your experience writing for the ACLP Bulletin as positive as possible, and strongly encourage you to consider submitting your work.

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