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2-Day Certification Course on Grief Counseling for Children & Adolescents: Developmentally-Appropriate Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Processing Grief

Grief looks different in a child.

When a child loses someone, it’s a lifelong loss. Not only have they lost someone important, they often become isolated in their pain, confusion, and self-blame. Safety and security have been replaced by trauma and anxiety.

Their understanding of death, and responses to the grief that follows, are largely influenced by their developmental level, making their treatment much different from that of an adult.

Many clinicians are unprepared…a child’s unique grief leaving them struggling in session.

This live webinar featuring grief expert, author, and speaker Erica H. Sirrine, Ph.D., LCSW, FT provides you with the assessment and treatment strategies you need to help your most vulnerable clients.

Watch Dr. Sirrine and discover how you can:

Better evaluate for developmentally appropriate grief symptomology
Provide anticipatory grief support to children facing the death of a parent
Talk to kids about death and tough topics like suicide
Match strategies and interventions to developmental level for improved outcomes
Use therapeutic games, arts and activities to promote healing when talking is too difficult

Don’t miss this opportunity to get the skills you need to make a difference for your young clients.

Purchase today!

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Objectives

Analyze the cognitive components of understanding grief in childhood (i.e., irreversibility, non-functionality, causality, universality) and connect these concepts to a developmentally appropriate treatment approach.
Distinguish between different types of grief and recognize the implications of different types for treatment/intervention with children and adolescents.
Perform a clinical assessment to identify grief reactions, coping mechanisms, red flag behaviours, and factors that influence mourning in grieving children and adolescents.
Design individualized therapeutic interventions to help children and adolescents express and reconcile grief.
Analyze continuing attachment bonds after death and their relevance to clinical practice with bereaved children and adolescents.
Evaluate developmentally appropriate grief symptomology for children and adolescents and assess for clinical concerns.
Investigate how traumatic loss impacts young people and use trauma-informed interventions to reduce symptomology.
Utilize strategies for providing anticipatory grief support to children facing the death of a parent, family member, or friend.
Determine boundaries of professional competence and analyze ethical considerations for working with minors and families
Utilize developmentally appropriate techniques for working through regret, forgiveness, and reconciliation with children and adolescents
Assess factors that can influence the grief process, such as multicultural and spirituality considerations, nature and type of loss, and support system.
Construct concrete terms to increase effectiveness in grief work with children.

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Module 3: Traumatic Grief, Continuing Bonds and Anticipatory Grief Counseling

Copyright : 27/01/2021

Suicidality and Suicide Loss in Children and Teens: Prevent Suicide and Restore Hope to Kids Grieving After Traumatic Loss

Suicide shatters worlds. And working with suicide is one of the most nerve-wracking and emotionally draining parts of your job.

Whether your client is a suicidal young person, or one who’s grieving in the aftermath of a loved one’s death by suicide, the weight of the situation can leave you feeling uncertain of your next steps and looking for answers …

How do I identify true suicidal intent and/or lethality?
How do I effectively work with kids and adolescents when their developmental levels vary drastically?
How do I restore hope when a loved one’s sudden, and sometimes violent, death has left a child or adolescent in an emotional freefall?

This recording will provide you with answers to your toughest questions and give you the tools you need to assess for suicide risk in kids and adolescents, effectively intervene in suicidal crisis, and help them cope with the feelings that can leave them at risk for suicide.

You’ll also learn how to apply play therapy interventions for children and teens whose worlds’ have been shattered following a loved ones’ death by suicide.

Along with guidance from our expert instructors, these evidence-based techniques will empower you to work with vulnerable young people experiencing traumatic grief more skillfully than ever before.

This recording will leave you feeling confident and capable in your ability to move young clients toward hope and healing!

Program Information

Objectives

Appraise risk factors and warning signs of suicidal behaviour in children and adolescents to increase skills in risk assessment of suicidality.
Analyze protective factors that may reduce suicidal behaviour in children and teens.
Apply play-based interventions to reduce suicidal thoughts and/or suicidal behaviours in children and teens.
Implement assessment tools that identify children and teens at highest risk for suicidality.
Determine the role of parents and caregivers in suicide risk assessment and prevention situations.
Articulate and apply play-based interventions to address childhood traumatic grief (CTG) for children and teens who are survivors of suicide loss.