Gc 430: Working With Grieving Children

Course overview

This online CE course focuses on working with children suffering a loss. Students learn best methods for working with and talking to children and adolescents about loss and how to provide therapeutic interventions. This course will present learning related to children and adolescents suffering loss of death, divorce, suicides, disabilities and more. The tasks of mourning will be examined from this age groups' perspective. Students will learn a comprehensive set of communication techniques in working with children and in assisting them to more fully express their feelings of loss. Students will examine children's fears, how to help them face funerals and memorials and other related dynamics. Content also focuses on abnormal grief reactions and when to refer for therapies. Upon successful completion of this course, students are awarded 20 contact hours of continuing education credits. Course Code: GC 430 Instructor/Course Author: Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D, MBA, RN,BC, GC-C Link to Resume TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete this course. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an "incomplete" will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again. TEXTBOOKS: There is one (1) required textbook for this course. Talking with Children About Loss. By: Maria Trozzi. New York;Berkley Publishing Group;1999. ISBN # 0-399-52543-2 First Edition. There is one comprehensive final examination for this course.