Expertise

Research:

  • Play:                                                                                               
    • Development
    • Coping
    • Hospitalized Children
  • Child Life Interventions:
    • Distraction
    • Tablet Distraction
    • Medical Play
    • Play
  • Psychosocial Issues of Hospitalized Children:
    • Coping
    • Family Coping
    • Anxiety
    • Fear

Dr. Burns-Nader's area of expertise is in child development and child life.

Dr. Burns-Nader's specific research interests include examining the psychosocial issues affecting children and families in the medical setting, the benefits of child life interventions during medical procedures, the value of play in development and coping in children, and the relationship between parents and hospitalized children’s coping.

Communities
Human Development
Degrees
PhD, University of Alabama, Educational Psychology, 2011
MSc, University of Alabama, Human Environmental Sciences, 2006
BS, University of Alabama, Human Environmental Sciences, 2005
Keywords
education or instruction (health or safety or medical) children (patients)
Associations
Child Life Council; Society of Research on Child Development