GC 430
Working with Grieving Children
Course Information
This online CEU 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
This course is particularly designed for those who would like to apply for Certification as a Grief Counselor with the American Academy of Grief Counseling; have a college degree already that qualifies them for waiver of 100 hours of continuing education; and, need to complete the additional 80 hours of continuing education to meet the requirements for certification. This course can not be used for future CEU's toward recertification.
Instructor/Course Author: Dominick L. Flarey, Ph.D, MBA, RN,BC, GC-C
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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.
You are required to order your own copy of the textbook. Please be sure to order your book as soon as possible so that you can begin your course of study.
You may order the textbook directly on line from Amazon.com by accessing the link below in red. Or, you may order the book from your local bookstore, or any online bookstore of your choice.
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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.
Additional CE Option: this course is approved by CCMS, Inc., which is an approved provider with NBCC (National Board of Certified Counselors). CCMS, Inc., is also a continuing education provider with NAADAC,, CASAC (California), OASAS, the states of Wyoming, Montana, Arkansas, Idaho and many others. CCMS, Inc. offers our students the option of applying for and receiving a CE certificate for this course. Their CE certificate means that your course will show evidence of NBCC approval, as well as the other approvals which CCMS, Inc. provides. The fees for CE certificates with course approvals from CCMS, Inc. are very reasonable. Full information is provided in our online classrooms for enrolled students.
ONLINE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARDS: Enrolled students have full access to our online Student Community Message Boards. These message boards allow students in our CE courses to meet each other, communicate online, share information, discuss topics of study and interest and much more. Full access is provided via the online classrooms.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
1). Review and discuss foundational issues related to grieving children.
2). Gain an understanding of children's needs related to their own understandings of death and dying.
3). Discuss the foundational issues related to children's tasks of grieving and mourning.
4). Discuss the foundational issues related to children's tasks of commemorating and moving on with their growth and development.
5). Understand and discuss issues related to children's grief when a parent dies.
6). Understand and discuss issues related to children's grief when a grandparent dies.
7). Understand and discuss issues related to children's grief when a sibling dies.
8). Explore issues and interventions for children related to anticipatory loss and grieving.
9). Define and discuss issues and interventions for children mourning stigmatic deaths.
10). Discuss grief, loss and mourning and reactions in children related to catastrophic losses.
11.) Review and discuss the major issues of child grief and mourning related to the case study of Rudie Dodge.
12.) Identify signs and symptoms and define interventions for bereavement overload in children.
13.) Understand the needs and the grief reactions from loss of parental divorce.
14.) Learn to assist children who are dealing with issues related to blended families.
15). Identify and discuss chronic losses that children may suffer.
16). Identify and discuss daily losses that children may suffer.
17). Identify many resources to use in child grief counseling for children, families and communities.
18). Understand the composite of signs/symptoms of child grief.
19). Define major interventions that are used in providing grief counseling to children.
COURSE CONTENT:
A brief abstract of content:
1). The mourning process in children.
2). The task of understanding and grieving.
3). The task of commemorating and going on.
4). When children lose a parent.
5). When children lose a grandparent.
6). When children lose a sibling.
7). Anticipatory loss.
8). Mourning stigmatic deaths.
9). Catastrophic losses.
10). Anatomy of a crisis.
11). Bereavement overload.
12). Mourning a divorce.
13). Blended families.
14). Chronic losses.
15). Everyday losses
16). Resources for children, families and communities.