Grieving Children:A Clinical And Pastoral Guide In Helping Them Heal

Grieving Children:A Clinical And Pastoral Guide In Helping Them Heal is organized by The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (AIHCP), Inc..

Course Information:
This course removes the ideals of curing grief for children but helping them adapt and grow from grief.  This clinical and pastoral guide looks at grief from a child’s perspective and helps counselors learn from the children what grief is to them.  The course lists many of the dos and do not's “grown ups” should adhere to in regards to caring for a child in grief and also helps one understand the nature of grief in the mind of the child.  Ultimately the course hopes to help counselors become “companions” of grief to the child and guide counselors in aiding children experience happiness and adjustment in the post loss life. Course Code: GC 565. Contact hours of Education = 30.

This course is particularly designed for those who are already or were recently certified by the American Academy of Grief Counseling, and are now seeking Certification as a Certified Grief Counselor in Child/Adolescent Grief.

Course Objectives: 
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
• To learn how to be a comforter to a child that is grieving
• To realize grief is not an event but a process
• To differentiate children and adult styles of grieving
• To understand the nature of children and how they grieve
• To help a child grieve naturally and in a healthy fashion
• To be better able to apply these concepts at a clinical and pastoral level
• To embrace the notion if a child can love, then a child can grieve
• To know when to guide, monitor and protect and when to simply listen and comfort a child in distress
• To accept the reality that not all children grieve the same