Child Development Stages and the Grief Process-Developing and promoting new healthy family dynamics and relationships

Shoshana Phoenixx

Training Description

This session will teach clinicians how to perform creative/artistic activities they can use to help system involved children to process grief experiences and build stronger relationships with those around them. First participants will learn about how a system involved child’s developmental stage interacts with their processing of grief. Then they will learn 2 different activities that can be applied to helping system involved children process their grief and communicate their feelings.

Learning Objective

• Learn about the different models of grief and how stage of development influences how they engage in grief process

• Use creative and artistic activities to help children process and articulate their feelings.