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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 insight from a developmental perspective into the world of the grieving child and the grieving adolescent.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of the course, you will have learned:
- Identification of grieving tasks
- Varying viewpoints about stress and grief
- Reactions that are specific to family-related grief issues
- Importance of dealing directly with difficult issues
- Specific techniques and interventions with families and children during loss and grief
- Reactions specific to childhood grief
- Myths of childhood and adolescent grieving
- Special issues in loss and grief for children (disease, suicide, violence, etc.)
- Grief issues related to developmental, unpredictable and historical events