Grief: Helping Parents with Grieving Children(HPAbb1)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Introducing a Child to an Unexpected Death; Grief Reflects Stages of Development; SIDS or Filicide; Five Challenges of a Grieving Child; Complicated Mourning; Suicide & Murder; Step-Parenting & Grieving Children; The Terminally Ill; Funerals; Burials and Cremation; Grieving Children's Concepts of Death; Death: Children's Developmental Understanding & Talking About It; Death & Loss: Helping Children Manage Their Grief; Children & Loss: Tips for Parents; Developmental Needs of Children During the Grief Process: Case Study; The Nature of Adolescent Grief & Its Meaning for Mental Health Counseling; Gender Differences in Adolescents with Unresolved Grief; Grief Resolution in Girls Whose Widowed Fathers Remarry Early; Understanding the Nature of Children's Bereavement; Adolescent Experiences with Death: Letting Go of Immortality; The Grieving Process in Children; Strategies for Working with Bereaved Adolescents This course is also offered in an abbreviated 5 hour format (HPAbb1)