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The experience of grieving challenges children and adolescents in ways unique to their developmental stages. As a result, it is not uncommon for their perceptions and behavior to be misunderstood, unacknowledged or overlooked by family members and other influential adults. This workshop offers you insight from a developmental perspective into the world of the grieving child and the grieving adolescent, with a strong focus on the impact of childhood trauma, unresolved childhood trauma and the likely developmental outcome of unattended childhood trauma.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of the course, you will have learned:
- Identification of grieving tasks
- Varying viewpoints about trauma and grief
- Reactions specific to family-related grief and trauma
- Importance of dealing directly with difficult developmental situations
- Specific techniques and interventions with families and children during loss, grief and trauma within the family system
- Reactions specific to childhood grief and how it impacts family and community systems
- Myths of childhood and adolescent grieving
- Special issues in loss and grief for children (disease, suicide, violence, etc.) and how trauma impacts the grieving process
- Grief issues related to developmental, unpredictable and historic events which almost always involve trauma