Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief

This seminar takes a comprehensive look at a variety of subtopics related to child and adolescent mourning. Come join us and learn from one of North America’s leading grief educators about:

• The major factors influencing the child’s response to loss
• Dimensions of childhood grief and helping roles
• Six central reconciliation needs of childhood mourning
• Tools and techniques used in counseling bereaved children
• Potential inhibitors in the child’s capacity to mourn
• Guidelines for facilitating bereaved child and adolescent support groups
• Special consideration for the adolescent mourner
• Identifying the “detached child”
• Referral criteria and recommended reading lists

Participants will receive a copy of Companioning the Grieving Child: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers.